14 DAY TRIAL // It’s been months since transgender model Ava London came forward with her story of a tryst she had with Hank Baskett, reality star Kendra Wilkinson’s husband, but he’s finally speaking out on the allegations.
London’s version of events has it that they had pleased each other but did not sleep together, after he picked her up online earlier this year, when Kendra was still pregnant with the couple’s second child. He then tried to bribe her into not going to the media.
As a result of the scandal, Kendra got a brand new storyline for season 3 of her reality show, Kendra on Top, and she’s also been very vocal and defensive about Hank in all promo interviews. She didn’t say once what really happened between the two, either.
Hank did nothing wrong, he’s innocent
So now it’s time to find out the truth. We know that both Kendra and Hank maintained all along that London was out to extort them because they were celebrities and she thought that she could make easy money off them, and that Hank even alerted the FBI about it.
Now, InTouch claims than Hank is saying that the leverage she tried to use on Hank was a lie, because he never touched her, let alone do other stuff with her. In fact, he was convinced that London was a woman when they met – and he bolted out of her house the second he saw that she wasn’t.
The reason he didn’t talk to the press until now is that he was feeling guilty for going to the house in the first place. He didn’t cheat on Kendra, but he might have if London had been a woman.
So, what went down?
According to the story, they met in the parking lot of a Ralphs market. London was with a friend, also a transgender model, and they chatted Hank up. He went along with it, assuming that they were both born women, so when they suggested they light up some weed, he saw nothing wrong with it.
One might be excused now for thinking that this sounds an awfully lot like a story in which you’d have a teenage protagonist but, hey, if Hank likes to smoke pot with strangers in parking lots at the age of 32, when he has a wife and kids at home, who are we to judge?
He didn’t stop here either: the ladies he had just struck an acquaintance with asked him to come over to their place to smoke some more weed, and he went.
“Hank used the bathroom and when he came out, Ava and her friend were naked and kissing. That’s when Hank realized they weren’t women. He freaked out, called Kendra and left,” says the source, adding that absolutely “nothing happened” between him and London.
Still, Hank felt like “he didn’t honor his marriage to Kendra” by going over, so this is why he’s been acting all these months as if he really did have something to hide, and he offered her money to not say anything about him to the media.
Marriage is back on track, Hank and Kendra even renewed their wedding vows
Besides documenting the fallout from the scandal on Kendra on Top, the two also agreed to do Celebrity Marriage Boot Camp. Episodes from that are still to air, but production sources have already told fans what to expect: on the finale, Kendra does a complete 180 and agrees to renew her wedding vows to Hank.
The ceremony is included on the last episode of the season, as the proverbial cherry on top.
So, in the end, lies or no lies, infidelity or not, Hank and Kendra came out as a couple, perhaps even a stronger one for it. They’re also richer because of all the drama, even though they’ve been relentlessly mocked for months for faking it from the start – in such an unconvincing manner no less.