{"id":263327,"date":"2018-12-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/lala-kent-tears-up-thinking-about-her-wedding-day-without-her-father-i-lost-half-of-who-i-am\/"},"modified":"2018-12-12T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T14:00:00","slug":"lala-kent-tears-up-thinking-about-her-wedding-day-without-her-father-i-lost-half-of-who-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/lala-kent-tears-up-thinking-about-her-wedding-day-without-her-father-i-lost-half-of-who-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Lala Kent Tears Up Thinking About Her Wedding Day Without Her Father: &#8220;I Lost Half of Who I Am&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.68023255814\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"22.674418604651\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/lala_kent\">Lala Kent<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0isn&#8217;t afraid to be open about her grieving process.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Vanderpump Rules<\/em> star revealed on April 23 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/929360\/vanderpump-rules-lala-kent-reveals-her-dad-has-died-in-heartbreaking-message\" target=\"_blank\">her father died<\/a>. She\u00a0captioned an Instagram video at the time, &#8220;Rest in paradise, my sweet dad. The world seems to be spinning much slower. I&#8217;ve never felt so lost. I&#8217;ve never felt so sad. My world has crumbled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A few months later, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/964936\/vanderpump-rules-lala-kent-engaged-to-randall-emmett\" target=\"_blank\">got engaged<\/a>\u2014one day before her 28th birthday\u2014in a romantic proposal that involved a getaway to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, fireworks and a ring worth $150,000. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BnOq2aMgN4r\/\" target=\"_blank\">She wrote on Instagram<\/a> a day after <strong>Randall Emmett<\/strong> popped the question, &#8220;Last night was the best night of my entire life.\u00a0I got engaged to the man of my dreams. I get to call this amazing human my fianc\u00e9! An engagement last night, my birthday today, and every sign my dad could possibly send me to let me know he&#8217;s here. I&#8217;m the happiest girl in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although she has her big wedding day to look forward to, Lala\u00a0is already aware of how she&#8217;ll feel when her father won&#8217;t be there to walk her down the aisle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p>The 28-year-old stopped by\u00a0<em>Just The Sip<\/em>\u00a0and talked to E! News&#8217;<strong>\u00a0Justin Sylvester<\/strong>\u00a0about all things family and relationship-related.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"63\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16\">\n<p>Lala opened up in the show about her wedding day and other big moments in her life without her dad. &#8220;<span>I&#8217;ve gone through the struggles of wondering who&#8217;s going to walk me down the aisle, who&#8217;s going to sit there and be a grandfather to my babies. It&#8217;s just heartbreaking to me,&#8221; she said as her eyes welled up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As she continued to discuss her loss, Lala began crying and tears fell down her face. &#8220;I&#8217;m in this zone of letting people know that you&#8217;re grieving process is something to just hold very close to you. If there&#8217;s anything I&#8217;ve learned, it&#8217;s not that there&#8217;s a right or wrong way to grieve, but there&#8217;s a healthy way.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just a day-by-day thing. I&#8217;m still in the process and I don&#8217;t have it figured out,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I\u00a0<\/span><span>lost half of who I am. There&#8217;s not a minute that goes by where I don&#8217;t think about my dad. We were extremely close.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.5\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20181011\/rs_634x1024-181111164536-634-2018-PCA-red-carpet-fashions-Lala-Kent.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Lala Kent, 2018 Peoples Choice Awards, PCAs, Red Carpet Fashions\" alt=\"Lala Kent, 2018 Peoples Choice Awards, PCAs, Red Carpet Fashions\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Matt Winkelmeyer\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"19\">\n<p>Lala posts about her father frequently on social media, but she opened up a great deal about her grieving process and how she&#8217;s coping. &#8220;<span>The passing of my dad sent me into hypersensitive, totally overboard emotional thoughts where I didn&#8217;t quite know my place. I&#8217;m still trying to figure it out,&#8221; she shared on\u00a0<em>Just The Sip<\/em>. &#8220;<\/span><span>I&#8217;m still going through my grieving process and there are days where I feel like I totally have it together and my mind is working in my favor.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She then revealed\u00a0doesn&#8217;t know exactly how her father\u00a0died, but &#8220;all I know is that he passed away in peace.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Give Them Lala cosmetics owner continued, &#8220;<\/span><span>There was no massive heart attack. The month before he died, he had a stroke while driving, was in a terrible car accident. His health had been slipping and I think his heart gave out.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"64\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"18\">\n<p>On a more positive note, Lala continuously gushed about her fianc\u00e9 and how she knew he was the one for her. Despite her\u00a0peers on\u00a0<em>Vanderpump Rules<\/em> thinking she &#8220;was going to be a side-chick forever,&#8221; Lala proved them all wrong. She expressed, &#8220;<span>When it&#8217;s love it&#8217;s just love. You can&#8217;t fight that feeling.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She added, &#8220;I always knew that this was my person. You can&#8217;t f&#8211;k with love.\u00a0We&#8217;re not in this for any other reason.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At another point during her wine-sipping chat with Justin, Lala praised Randall for loving her and supporting her even in the hardest times. She beamed, &#8220;<\/span><span>He&#8217;s the only person in the entire world that knows how to deal with my heart and soul.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/995601\/lala-kent-tears-up-thinking-about-her-wedding-day-without-her-father-i-lost-half-of-who-i-am?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lala Kent\u00a0isn&#8217;t afraid to be open about her grieving process. The\u00a0Vanderpump Rules star revealed on April 23 that her father died. She\u00a0captioned an Instagram video at the time, &#8220;Rest in paradise, my sweet dad. The world seems to be spinning much slower. I&#8217;ve never felt so lost. I&#8217;ve never felt so sad. 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