“Hurricane Huda” Is In Her Erewhon Era After the TMZ Footage of Her Sneaking into Her Ex’s Baby Momma’s Apartment

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Huda Mustafa got papped on a smoothie run at Erewhon in West Hollywood on Tuesday, dressed in a cropped “MARGIELA 6 EST 1997” tee and low-rise flared jeans, cup in one hand and phone in the other.

It’s a long way from the villa. The Love Island USA Season 7 contestant, a fitness influencer and single mom from Raleigh who earned the nickname “Hurricane Huda,” finished third in 2025 after a run of jealous meltdowns, name-calling and viral crash-outs that had fans branding her the season’s villain.

The chaos didn’t end when the show did. In October 2025, a caller on an Instagram Live she was doing with then-boyfriend Louis Russell used a racial slur toward fellow islander Olandria Carthen; Huda Beauty dropped its collaboration with her, and she apologized and said she’d donate to the NAACP.

Then came the legal saga. Louis’s ex and baby mama, Nicole Olivera, sought a restraining order this year, alleging Huda threatened her and others and tried to force her way into her LA home. Surveillance footage placed Huda inside Nicole’s apartment complex around 1:30 a.m. on February 21, 2026. Huda denied wrongdoing. The temporary order dissolved on June 5 after both women no-showed a hearing, and Huda and Louis had announced a mutual breakup weeks earlier, on May 20.

Grainy security camera footage of a person in dark clothing walking through a gated apartment complex entrance at night.
Surveillance footage dated February 21, 2026 shows a figure walking through an L.A. apartment complex at the center of a legal dispute involving Huda Mustafa and her ex-boyfriend’s baby mama. Photo by TMZ/Backgrid.

She’s since pivoted hard into music, releasing “Bad Girls” in May and “Rotation” in June. At the Hollywood Unlocked Impact Awards, she told the new “Love Island USA” cast to block out online noise and focus on their mental health.

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