Nia Sanchez Addresses Her Negative Comments About Unhoused People

Nia Sanchez is apologizing for her recent comments about unhoused people.

Earlier this week, The Valley star, 35, faced backlash after complaining in a since-deleted Instagram Story that a park she visited was “infested” with “unhoused people.” During her show’s panel at BravoCon 2025 on Friday, Nov. 14, an audience member asked Sanchez to address the comments.

“Thank you, first of all, for asking that question,” Sanchez said from the stage. “I figured it might come up, and I am grateful for the opportunity to address it here. Anybody that reached out to me on social media, I responded to every single message, and even people that commented, I went and reached out to them as well.”

“There’s no excuse,” she continued. “I was completely mortified that those words even came out of my mouth. It’s not an excuse. It was a crazy day. And I vented in a way that I don’t normally speak, and then posted it publicly, which was like, ‘What was I even thinking?'”

Sanchez went on to say that she regrets using “those words.”

“That’s not how I feel, and I spoke out of a moment of overwhelm and frustration, and feeling a bit unsafe, but that’s not an excuse,” she said. “So, I do deeply regret it, and I should not have used those words. And I’m grateful that you gave me the opportunity to apologize again publicly, because it’s not okay. So, I take full accountability, and I should have never said those words.”

Sanchez — who shares four kids with husband Danny Booko — previously opened up about her own experience being unhoused during the second season of The Valley.

“I was homeless with my mom when I was kid,” she said. “We were living in a shelter; we slept on couches; we pitched tents in people’s backyards; we had to go to parks and get cans out of trash cans to pay rent.”

“I’ve had times that I’ve slept in my own car as an adult,” she added. “I had a job, but I had to sleep in my car in the parking lot where I worked.”

During a confessional, Sanchez said the experience of “waking up to a security guard” telling her to leave the parking lot was “mortifying.”

“Life has not been easy,” she said. “But that’s okay because it’s made me strong.”

During the panel, Sanchez and her fellow Valley cast mates revealed that they recently wrapped filming season 3, though a release date has not been set. Next season, Vanderpump Rules alums Tom Schwartz and Lala Kent will be featured as full-time cast members.

BravoCon 2025 continues through Sunday, Nov. 16, at Las Vegas’ Caesars Forum.