Celebrities Who Have Done Background Checks on Their Dates Following Messy Splits: Lala Kent, Meghan King and More

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A different approach. Lala Kent and Meghan King are just some of the celebrities who admitted to doing background checks on potential dates following messy splits.Kent made headlines for her personal life when she went public with Randall Emmett in 2018.

The Vanderpump Rules star, who got engaged to the director later that year, previously chose to stay tight-lipped about her dating history while filming the show.After postponing their nuptials amid the coronavirus pandemic, the couple sparked split speculation in October 2021 when Kent erased all traces of the director from her Instagram feed.

One month later, Us Weekly confirmed that the pair had called it quits.At the time, the Give Them Lala author opened up about choosing to publicly discuss the end of her engagement. “There are so many times where people are sending me messages about what I’m choosing to share.

And for me, I want my daughter to understand what a healthy, respectable man looks like,” the TV personality, who welcomed daughter Ocean with Emmett in March 2021, told Page Six later that year. “That is my job as her mother, to create that for her, so when she goes out and it’s time for her to find a partner, or it’s time for her to raise a son, that she knows what values a man should possess.”The Utah native later noted that she learned a major lesson from the breakup. “I now have, like, this PI guy who I just randomly send people to.