After “Summer House” ended Tuesday, May 19, Bravo jumped straight into “In The City,” where Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula’s split—announced in January after four years of marriage—plays out through therapy sessions, accusations of emotional affairs, and a new r
The apology came, and it didn’t land.
In the wake of the “Summer House” finale and the immediate premiere of Bravo’s spinoff “In The City” on Tuesday. May 19. Kyle Cooke tried to make amends with Amanda Batula—only for her to freeze him out at their après-ski-themed soiree. She wasn’t angry just because he’d blown up earlier. She was exhausted by what she called empty apologies without real change.
Both shows. airing back-to-back on May 19. have chronicled the end of the four-year marriage between the “Summer House” castmates Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula. They announced their separation in January. after appearing on all ten seasons of Bravo’s reality series together—setting the stage for “In The City. ” a new series focused on an older cast navigating marriage. the end of relationships. and raising children.
What makes this chapter feel especially tense is how quickly the personal fallout spills into new relationships, and how hard both sides push for distance while still insisting they want the same thing: for it to work.
Cooke and Batula leave “Summer House” separately—then collide again
Once their housemates vacated their Hampton’s abode, Cooke and Batula sat down for the final conversation that closed “Summer House.” On the steps of their porch, Cooke expressed remorse over his outburst. He said it was influenced by the possibility that the two of them might take time apart.
Batula, for her part, believed the pair were “in a good place,” but said Cooke’s actions and words sent her “back to square one.” She was left questioning: “Is this what forever’s going to look like for us?”
“We’ve been through cheating rumors and infidelity,” she said. “We’ve done it all … We’ve had some of the best memories, but also some of the absolute f—— worst.”
Batula told Cooke she wanted a new chapter and that it could begin with time apart. “I’m going to stay a couple of nights in a hotel,” she told him, adding, “because something is fundamentally wrong in our relationship. It needs to change and this is me trying to start that.”
Cooke was left speechless, worried that “everything” in his life was “crumbling, and it’s just the worst feeling.”
Batula said it was time to prioritize herself. “I can’t be just looking out for you anymore,” she told him. “I need to look out for me.” She told Cooke she’d meet him a few days later at therapy.
On “In The City,” the conversation turns to West Wilson and an “emotional affair”
“In The City” opened with a recap of where things landed after filming the “Summer House” finale. Batula and Cooke announced their split in January, and rumors of a romance between Batula and West Wilson followed quickly. Those rumors were confirmed on March 31 with a joint statement from the pair.
On the show, cameras then captured a conversation between Cooke and Batula on April 9, 2026, at their old apartment, where now only Cooke lives. He asked Batula if she’d been eating and said he was “worried” about her.
“I’m worried about me too,” she said.
Cooke told his ex he wanted to be a source of support. but also wanted to clear things up because he looked back on the summer and felt she “look[ed] like you were done with me.” Batula insisted she had given their relationship everything she had because she wanted it to work so badly. She said the idea of not existing in his life was impossible to wrap her head around.
She told him she was afraid that once they ended things, they would be “out of each other’s lives forever,” and she said, “I couldn’t handle that.”
Cooke asked about Batula’s “emotional affair” with Wilson. “Nothing was happening!” Batula said, insisting she was “so committed” throughout their entire relationship. She said it hurt deeply that he questioned her faithfulness.
“All I wanted was for us to make it work. For you to even question my faithfulness in any capacity just really f—— hurts because that’s not the type of person that I am.”
After Batula accused Cooke of making out with someone else during their marriage—and said there was video footage as proof—the conversation ended with Cooke wiping tears from his eyes, heartbroken that “someone else gets the version that I fell in love with.”
Therapy doesn’t heal—it sharpens the fracture
After Cooke and Batula’s conversation, the premiere of “In The City” jumped back to September 2025. While grocery shopping with Lindsay Hubbard, Batula told her that she and Cooke are in couples counseling.
Batula said the therapist “made a comment to us in therapy,” adding, “where she was like, ‘You guys hate each other.’”
Later, Cooke and Batula regrouped after another rough therapy session. Batula pointed out how their therapist believes they’re “moving backwards.” Cooke responded, “I’m just feeling almost more confused.”
Batula said his approach was part of the problem. “Well, it was very evident because you’re just negative the whole time,” she told him. “Everything was a ‘but this, but that.’”
She described what therapy should be doing—moving them in the right direction—and compared it to a DJ event that ended at 2. She said he went out after, then returned home at 4:00 in the morning the night before therapy.
“Here I am at therapy, trying to make it work,” Batula added. She said she didn’t want to end things, but “you’re not giving me any hope.”
The wedding anniversary becomes the moment the decision shifts
Cooke kicked off celebrations for their four-year wedding anniversary on Sept. 25, 2025, with drinks, appetizers, and “a little bombshell.” But Batula said therapy hadn’t given her reasons to believe things were turning.
“After therapy, I’ve felt lower than I’ve ever felt in a really long time,” she admitted, emphasizing that it’s “difficult” to resume normal home life after a rocky session. “For me, I struggle with that a lot,” she added.
“It’s not going the way that I really want it to,” Batula said. “I’m going to move out.”
She made clear she didn’t want the move to end things or be permanent. “This is like, a month,” she told Cooke. She said it was something she believed they needed in order to help them.
“I want to date again. I want to get together and spend time like this… I’m not doing this to run away. I’m doing this because I want this to work out.”
And that thread—wanting the same outcome while drifting farther apart—runs straight from “Summer House” into “In The City,” where every attempt at repair is tangled up with doubt, accusations, and a question neither of them can stop asking: whether “forever” can look anything other than this.
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