West Wilson on Nude Leak: ‘Worst Day of My Life’

West Wilson has had a lot on his plate lately — a bombshell romance, a fractured friend group, a brutal reunion taping — but the morning of April 23 managed to pile on something extra. The Summer House star woke up to find both his Instagram and Facebook accounts had been hacked, his private photos were circulating online, and he had a reunion stage to walk onto in about five minutes.

“I know my f**king nudes leaked, OK. But guess what? It’s, like, the sixth worry of mine right now,” Wilson said on the latest episode of his Show Me Something podcast, which he co-hosts with WNBA star Sophie Cunningham. “I have a lot of sh*t going on, and I’m gonna own it.”

The 31-year-old sports journalist was quick to add some context — and a little damage control. “They’re not even sexual. They look medical. I’m soft in all of them. I don’t even know if the other two are me.” He traced the images back to his old apartment, where he kept a sauna. “I would always get out of the sauna and double check,” he explained. “Or check progress.”

A friend texted him about the leak — timing couldn’t have been worse. “Five seconds before I walked on stage to the reunion,” Wilson said. “I was like, ‘Motherf**ker.’ I know that I’ve had the worst day of my life already, which is good to know. That’s behind me. Also, if you see it, report it.”

He’s choosing to laugh rather than spiral. “I know I’m laughing, because if I don’t laugh, I’ll f**king cry about all of this,” he said, before adding a pitch-perfect punchline: “Manscaped partnership down the road, hopefully.”

But underneath the humor, Wilson had a clear message: “Don’t leak people’s nudes or hack people’s sh*t. It’s, like, not fun.”

Inside the ‘Darkest Form of Therapy’

The nude leak was only one piece of a genuinely brutal day. The Season 10 reunion — which airs May 26 at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo and streams on Peacock the following day — centered squarely on Wilson’s relationship with co-star Amanda Batula, and by all accounts, it did not go gently.

Batula, 34, confirmed her romance with Wilson in late March, months after announcing her separation from Summer House co-star and husband Kyle Cooke after four years of marriage. The complication that’s haunted everything since: Wilson had previously dated Ciara Miller, who was one of Batula’s closest friends.

“These are my friends, and I’ve caused a lot of damage, which f**king sucks,” Wilson said on the podcast. “It’s gonna take time, for sure. Doing the reunion was one step. Got through it, and we’re on the other side of it. Reunions aren’t fun.”

He called the experience “the darkest form of therapy” — and meant it. “You don’t normally get that much feedback on how your actions impact other people. There’s a shock to your system from it.”

A clip of that feedback had already gone viral before the reunion even aired. Audio leaked the day after filming, with Miller heard calling Batula a “f**king snake,” and co-star Mia Calabrese telling Batula, “You went from married — and I’m not saying your relationship was perfect — to being one of West’s side bitches.” Wilson denied being the source of that leak, pointing the finger at outside audio contractors. “I don’t think anyone on stage could ever do it. It’s gotta be where the audio team is.”

Bravo has since found and fired the person responsible — a production staffer whose name the network hasn’t made public. Wilson said he plans to ask who it was eventually. “I don’t think that’s ever happened before. Bravo is so buttoned up with everything. I’m sure they’re so f**king pissed. Obviously, it wasn’t me.”

KJ Dillard Reads the Apology Text He Was Too Scared to Open

While Wilson was processing everything on his podcast, co-star KJ Dillard was sitting across from Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live with a two-week-old unread text from Wilson on his phone — one he’d been too scared to look at.

With some encouragement from Cohen and the audience, Dillard, 28, finally opened it and read it aloud.

“I wanted to thank you for your articulation and kindness yesterday despite being hurt. I’ve been off social and I think I lost touch with how much hurt there was. I’m incredibly sorry,” Dillard read, his voice steady but his expression anything but.

The text continued: “Also sending you love in regards to your mental health. You shared a lot yesterday and I know it mightn’t carry much weight now but I’m always rooting for the best for you. I know it will take some time but whenever you feel like you’re ready, lunch or a phone call would mean a lot in the spirit of healing. No need to respond, take your time.”

Dillard sat back, exhaled, and said simply: “That hurts.”

“It just hurts because it’s, like, me and him were so close,” he added. Later, fighting back tears, Dillard told Cohen, “I lowkey want to cry” — calling the whole situation “a very tricky situation.” Dillard is close with Ciara Miller, which puts him squarely in the middle of the fallout.

Wilson, for his part, seems to know the road ahead is long. “The only way you can make experiences like this worth it, as dark as it gets, is to be better from it later,” he said on the podcast. “Obviously, I have a lot to learn from and be better for, but it’s absolutely the only way you can turn it positive. It’s growth. It’ll take a sec, but we’ll get there.”

The Summer House Season 10 reunion begins airing May 26. Whatever’s coming, Dillard’s face when he finished reading that text pretty much said everything.