‘Big Brother 24’ Houseguest Paloma Aguilar Breaks Silence After Shocking Departure: ‘No $750,000 Was Worth the Cost of My Mental Health’

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Addressing her departure. Paloma Aguilar didn’t hold back about her decision to leave the Big Brother house early.“No 750,000 dollars was worth the cost of my mental health,” Aguilar, 22, exclusively told Us Weekly in a statement about her exit on Friday, July 22, noting it had nothing to do with fellow houseguest Taylor Hale. “It’s crazy how people jump to conclusions with the whole racist bit — Taylor and I are actually good friends so please keep hyping her up!

She’s a QUEEN.”According to Paloma, she and Taylor, 27, developed a friendship before the home remodeler’s departure.“Her and I became actually very close towards the end — the thing is they cut the beginning clips and ran with it,” she claimed. “I told her I didn’t want to hear it in the last episode because I was exhausted and I knew our girl well enough that it didn’t even matter because she’s just trying to play [the] game either way.”The California native noted that not everything between the duo made it on screen, saying, “Remember that reality tv isn’t always real.

I’m always rooting for boss babes, never going to try and tear a strong woman down and I was extremely straight up with her the first days when we didn’t mesh.”Paloma added: “She didn’t try to ally with any of the girls and unfortunately our convo about that wasn’t aired. … Only love for this girl.

I can’t wait for her to come out so we can talk about it as two strong women.”The former contestant shocked viewers when she seemingly made the choice to step away from the game due to personal issues.