Larsa Pippen on Filming ‘House of Villains’ amid Marcus Jordan Breakup (Exclusive)

• Larsa Pippen joined House of Villains season 2 as a late arrival on the Oct. 17 episode following Larissa Lima’s elimination 
• The Real Housewives of Miami star tells PEOPLE she came into House of Villains wanting “to be friends with everyone” and making “everyone think that I didn’t care to win”
• “I’m not a villain initially. However, if pushed, I can be a supervillain,” Pippen says

Larsa Pippen might’ve entered House of Villains late, but she made her presence known.

When the Real Housewives of Miami star, 50, joined season 2 on the Oct. 17 episode, she immediately threw a fit about not wanting to take the only bed available in a room with two male contestants.

“I just wanted to be welcomed into the House of Villains,” Pippen tells PEOPLE. “I was the new girl in the house. I wanted them to show me a little bit more love before we started backstabbing each other. I was like, ‘Can I just get one night of fun energy before I start really playing hard?’”

Ultimately, The Bachelor’s Victoria Larson gave her bed up to Pippen and took the room with The Challenge’s Wes Bergmann and Big Brother’s Jessie Godderz, which Pippen says earned Larson, 31, some good will with her.

“I wanted to be friends with everyone,” Larsen says. “But I didn’t know who was going to keep their word and who was just playing really hard. I didn’t want anyone to think that Teresa and I were in a great place, so my strategy was basically to make friends and let everyone think that I didn’t care to win: ‘I’m just here for a good time, guys. I don’t care if I win. I don’t really need the money. Who needs $200,000?’”

Despite wanting to cover up her friendship with fellow Bravolebrity Teresa Giudice, Larsen says that seeing the Real Housewives of New Jersey star on House of Villains “made me feel like I was home.”

“We are Bravo family, but we’re really good friends,” Pippen adds. “We definitely aligned.”

The allyship worked, keeping both Pippen and Giudice, 52, off the Hit List after Bad Girls Club’s Camilla Poindexter won the title of Supervillain of the Week in the Oct. 17 episode. Poindexter, 38, put up Godderz, also 38, alongside Survivor’s Richard Hatch and Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta‘s Safaree.

Pippen feels like she didn’t enter the House of Villains as a typical villain. “I’m not a villain initially,” she says. “However, if pushed, I can be a supervillain. If you poke the bear, I’m definitely that person. If you do come for me, I have a sharp tongue, so I’m a villain at times, I guess.”

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The mom of four says she felt “prepared for the challenges” on House of Villains thanks to her experience on The Traitors season 2, “but at the same time I was prepared for the confrontation” due to her years on RHOM.

But Pippen found living under the same roof as her castmates to be “really challenging,” she says. “It’s not easy. It’s challenging not having a door in your room. You have no privacy. I knew people were going to be losing their minds, so just being able to be cool with everyone and being able to be a butterfly and move amongst different groups of people, I think that’s the Housewives angle.”

The reality star says that after two days, she had most of her House of Villains costars figured out.

“When you live under the same roof, it’s fast-forward. You get to learn so much about people and their personalities and their strategy,” Pippen continues. “If you’re too nice, I’m like, he’s definitely a silent assassin. You are a killer because you’re definitely not this nice in real life. I feel like I basically had everyone pegged the right way.”

After doing Traitors and now House of Villains, Pippen says she wants to do “all” of the reality competitions.

“They’re so much fun!” she says. “House of Villains, I had the best experience. It’s so much fun to get to meet other people that are in the same space as you and to be in a house with other people that are in the same industry as me that I would’ve never really had a chance to connect with. When would I ever hung out with Wes or Jessie? They’re not in my same world.”

Pippen’s positive experience on House of Villains came despite filming amid her breakup from Marcus Jordan, who went public with their relationship in January 2023.

“I really was in a great place,” Pippen says. “I wanted to do the show, so it was just a good experience for me.”

When it comes to her love life today, “I’m not really looking for anything,” Pippen says. “I already feel full from my last relationship. I need to just focus on other things at this point. I am working, I am enjoying my family time. I’m good.”

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House of Villains airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET on E! and the first two episodes are available to stream now on Peacock.