# Malika Haqq Slams ‘Self-Centered’ Co-Star Natalie Halcro on Virtual Reali-Tea Podcast > Source: https://buzzwiredaily.com/malika-haqq-natalie-halcro-virtual-reali-tea-hulu/ > Author: Ronald Jeferson > Published: 2026-08-20 > Modified: 2026-08-29 The Hulu reality series The Girls has a pre-premiere co-star feud, and it is landing with the headline it was probably built to land with. Khloé Kardashian's longtime best friend Malika Haqq told Page Six's Virtual Reali-Tea podcast that her castmate Natalie Halcro is "self-centered" and shows "lack of accountability," and Halcro's WAGS LA castmates rushed to her defense. [The Page Six exclusive is dated August 20, 2026](https://pagesix.com/2026/08/20/entertainment/khloe-kardashians-longtime-bff-malika-haqq-un), and the Hulu premiere has not yet aired. https://x.com/PageSix/status/2090498457991622798 Haqq did not hedge. She told Virtual Reali-Tea: "I don't think any one of us is messy. I think one of us is self-centered." She named Halcro specifically. "I think Natalie thinks about herself a lot." She characterized Halcro as showing a lack of accountability by thinking too much about herself, and she said the cast had tried to confront Halcro with their concerns. The framing positions Haqq as the cast truth-teller and Halcro as the difficult personality, which is the show's narrative tension going into the premiere. Haqq hedged slightly on Halcro's character, speculating that Halcro might not be as comfortable being as forthright as, say, Yris Palmer is, or that she is "just a little more sensitive." That softer read is what makes the broader story believable. Haqq did not call Halcro a villain. She called her a person who needs to grow up. The softer framing is what gave Page Six the quote structure that ran the story: present the named accusation, give the named subject the rebuttal in the same article, and let the reader weight the two sides. That structure has been Page Six's signature reality-TV play for years. The defense was immediate. [Page Six's separate interview](https://pagesix.com/2026/08/20/entertainment/khloe-kardashians-longtime-bff-malika-haqq-un) with Halcro's WAGS LA castmates Nicole Williams English and Olivia Pierson ran alongside the Haqq piece, both of whom rushed to her defense. The framing is the Page Six house style. The WAGS LA castmates pointed to the years they have spent working with Halcro on camera and said the "self-centered" framing did not match the Halcro they know. The two interviews ran on the same day, and the contrast between Haqq's accusation and the WAGS castmates' defense is what gave the story its 48-hour news cycle. The Hulu premiere is the under-told part of the story. The Girls has not yet aired its first episode, and the show has not yet released a trailer that frames the cast's internal dynamics. The Haqq interview is therefore the first public look at the show's narrative arc, and the "self-centered" framing is what the premiere audience will be looking for when the first episode drops. Pre-premiere reality feuds are a Hulu marketing pattern. The company built its reality-TV identity on Kardashian-adjacent cast conflicts, and the Haqq-Halcro fight is the cleanest pre-premiere feud the platform has had in 2026. The background is WAGS LA. Natalie Halcro was one of the principal cast members across all three seasons of the E! reality series that ran from 2015 to 2017, alongside Nicole Williams English and Olivia Pierson. WAGS LA was the show that put the Halcro family on the celebrity map, and the Halcro name has stayed in celebrity gossip through a chain of personal-life stories since the show ended. The WAGS LA castmates defending Halcro in the Page Six piece is the WAGS LA cast doing what the WAGS LA cast has always done. The franchise built its audience on the cast defending each other in public, and the defense of Halcro in 2026 is the same defense the cast has run since 2015. Three seasons of reality TV buys a lot of credibility. It does not end it. The Khloé Kardashian connection is the bridge that gave the story its reach. Haqq is one of Khloé Kardashian's closest friends, and the Khloé connection is what turned the Page Six exclusive from a reality-TV beat into an entertainment-news beat. The Kardashian audience moved through the story faster than the WAGS LA audience did, and the speed of that crossover is what pushed the feud from Page Six's reality vertical into the broader entertainment press. The Kardashian name did the distribution work, and the Halcro defense kept the story in the WAGS LA audience. The premiere will determine whether the feud carries past its news cycle. If the first episode frames Halcro as the cast difficult personality, the Haqq quotes will be cited as the cleanest preview of what aired. If the premiere softens the framing, the Haqq interview becomes the most aggressive pre-premiere read of a cast conflict the Hulu audience had, and the WAGS LA defense becomes the more accurate preview. The Hulu marketing team will not say which framing wins, and the answer is what the audience decides after the first episode airs. One thing is already clear. The story works. Representatives for Hulu declined to comment on the cast dynamics ahead of the premiere. A representative for Natalie Halcro did not respond to requests for comment. --- **Citation:** Ronald Jeferson (2026). Malika Haqq Slams ‘Self-Centered’ Co-Star Natalie Halcro on Virtual Reali-Tea Podcast. *BuzzWireDaily - Gossip, Gangsters & Blockbuster Buzz*. Retrieved from https://buzzwiredaily.com/malika-haqq-natalie-halcro-virtual-reali-tea-hulu/