Here's a new excuse -- Larsa Pippen is blaming Covid for her rendezvous with Malik Beasley ... admitting in a new interview that hooking up with the NBA player was a mistake.
Pippen and Beasley became a thing back in 2020 while he was still married to Montana Yao, who later said she was "blindsided" by the affair.
Pippen, 50, and Malik, 28, split a short time later .