Laguna Beach’s Alex Murrel Details Jessica, Jason Love Triangle

Let the rain fall down — and stir the pot! Laguna Beach alum Alex Murrel broke down her highschool love triangle with Jason Wahler and Jessica Smith, teasing that it wasn’t as actual as viewers thought.

“It was very contrived. They knew that there was a storylines and they built upon those and timelines were split and cut apart,” Murrel, 35, completely informed Us Weekly on November 1, noting that the identical went for Kristin Cavallari, Stephen Colletti and Lauren Conrad’s onscreen drama throughout season 1. “Because it was shot like a soap opera pretty much, it was hard for viewers to, like, understand if it was reality or real.”

The Mox Agency cofounder raised eyebrows throughout season 2 of the MTV sequence, which aired in 2005, when she took Wahler, now 35, to their Winter Formal dance whereas he was nonetheless courting Smith, additionally 35.

Once the “Let the Journey Begin” podcast cohost and Smith referred to as it quits on their romance, he rapidly moved on with Murrel, however the advertising and marketing guru informed Us the timeline wasn’t precisely what it appeared.

“It just kind of blurred those lines ’cause [the show] was the first of its kind,” Murrel stated whereas selling Laguna Beach‘s Netflix debut. “There was those [love triangle] story lines [and] things happened, but I think, like, with the editing, it really kind of piecemeal things together that maybe weren’t, like, a hundred percent.”

Following the present, which included a 3rd season that aired in 2006, the teenagers grew up and located love exterior of actuality TV.

Murrel married Kyle Johnson in October 2014. The couple share three sons: Levi, 6, Kase, 4, and Rome, 19 months. Jason, for his half, wed Ashley Wahler (née Slack) in October 2013. The twosome share daughter Delilah, 5, and son Wyatt, 16 months.

Smith, who was one among Cavallari’s finest pals on seasons 1 and a pair of of the MTV present, presently lives in Texas together with her husband and their 4 youngsters.

Looking again on the childhood drama, Murrel confessed that she and Jason don’t typically speak about their transient fling, however they do keep in contact.

“I love Jason’s wife, Ashley. I mean, Jason and I maybe, like — and this is where it can be contrived — we, like, dated for … [it was a] high school relationship,” the Newport Beach, California, resident informed Us earlier this month. “It was, like, a week or two and then that got piecemealed.”

Murrel concluded: “We were friends first, always, and then friends after. We’re married [and have] kids [so] there’s no reason to talk about any of that anyway. We laugh about it, that’s for sure.”

Laguna Beach seasons 1 and a pair of hit Netflix on Friday, November 11.

With reporting by Christina Garibaldi