A certain Love & Marriage: Huntsville newcomer stirred up fresh friction in the group before going head-to-head with her man’s bestie, who warned her not to bring up her son before their “concubine” calling kerfuffle. “I will smack that b***!” said the mama bear realtor.
During Saturday’s episode, Destiny Payton questioned why LaTisha Scott is seemingly extending an olive branch to Martell Holt’s longtime mistress-turned-girlfriend, Arionne Curry, despite Arionne’s history of making cheating allegations about the women’s husbands.
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As previously reported, Arionne’s long-awaited arrival has stirred up fresh drama, particularly considering her past allegations that LaTisha’s husband, Marsau Scott, and Kimmi Scott’s husband, Maurice Scott, have been unfaithful.
Arionne even appeared alongside Martell in a video featuring a woman alleged to have had an affair with Marsau, further fueling the controversy surrounding her relationship with the Scotts.
Now with that in mind, Destiny questioned why LaTisha appears willing to make peace with someone who publicly made accusations about her marriage, especially when Destiny says she wasn’t afforded that same grace following their fallout last season.
“Me and you were in a bad place for over a year because I said something about your husband,” Destiny tells LaTisha.
Destiny argues that whatever she previously said about Marsau pales in comparison to Arionne’s public allegations.
“I didn’t try to damage your marriage, and I didn’t go online and try to say that your husband was sleeping with other women,” Destiny continues. “She did. So how do you forgive so quickly, and you didn’t forgive me that quickly?”
LaTisha, however, pushes back on the suggestion that she’s already forgiven Arionne.
“I didn’t say I forgave her,” LaTisha responds.
She explains that allowing Arionne into their shared space was an attempt to be the bigger person and move forward, rather than an indication that their differences had been resolved.
Kimmi then reveals that she initially had reservations about meeting Arionne, especially given their contentious history.
“I told Tisha when she asked me to go, I was apprehensive,” says Kimmi. “I didn’t need to have a conversation because I felt like if I did, it would probably go left.”
Surprisingly, Kimmi says Arionne approached their meeting with a much softer attitude than she’d anticipated.
“However, when we met, she came in soft, like, apologized,” Kimmi explains. “She came in like she was different. She absolutely apologized for things she said.”
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Nell Fletcher revealed that Arionne previously shared her grievances about the women in the group, including LaTisha, while noting that she had no real issues with Kimmi. LaTisha fired back, questioning why Arionne would have a problem with women she barely knows.
Meanwhile, Destiny questioned Arionne’s motives for entering the friend group, suggesting that unresolved feelings surrounding her friendship with Martell may be influencing her behavior.
“What she’s trying to do is make me look bad because she’s now in this circle for whatever energy, insecurity she has about me and Martell’s relationship,” Destiny says in a confessional.
She also makes it clear that she doesn’t understand why the other women are entertaining Arionne’s presence in the first place.
“I honestly don’t understand why the ladies want to hang out with Arionne in the first place, and I don’t see the benefit for them,” Destiny says in a confessional. “But I’m happy that they’re getting a chance to see that it’s not one.”
Arionne later comes to the event before abruptly leaving when Destiny walks in the room.
That’s not all; however, things later went left when Arionne and Destiny finally came face to face, and Martell’s girlfriend made some unsavory comments about Destiny’s son.
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Later in the episode, Destiny and Arionne clash amid Arionne alleging that Destiny is a “snake.” According to Arionne she told two different versions of a story, so it cements her claim that Martell’s best friend can’t be trusted.
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“This is what I mean by snake,” says Arionne in a confessional. “She says one thing to another person, something to somebody else. She has no integrity.”
She then tells Destiny that she can “tolerate her” for her man Martell’s sake, and Destiny snarkily reminds her just how “tolerant” she is, pointing out that she “tolerated” Martell’s marriage to Melody Shari, as well as the multiple women he allegedly slept with and, most importantly, “tolerated” him publicly, deeming her a “peasant.”
Arionne then levels an accusation about her son, claiming that Destiny’s son, Law, “didn’t get into” the school that her son, Maverick, attends.
That gets Destiny on her feet and seemingly ready to throw hands.
“Don’t speak on my son, you f**** concubine!” warns Destiny while her friend Martell tries to calm her down. “I will smack that b***!”
Things then descend further into chaos as both Arionne and Destiny try to beckon Martell over, with Martell ultimately deciding to stand by Arionne’s side.
The messy moment has now been morphed into an AI-remake of Joseline Hernandez’s infamous “Hey, maid” faceoff with Mimi Faust from Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta season 2.
In a previous interview with #LAMH producer Carlos King, Destiny explained why she went off on Arionne for speaking on her son.
“I don’t play about mine, and she was losing the argument, and her grasp was something about my kid and she was about to try to make it negative and derogatory and I just blacked out because my son had no place in anything.”
She also said that she’s often held herself back from taking digs at certain castmates because of their children whom she “loves and protects.”
“That is a level of low that is just beyond hell, leave these babies out of it. They didn’t ask to be here, they don’t have nothing to do with it.”
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