The exes obtained emotional as they apologized for earlier conduct to 1 one other on the sequence premiere of their new current, by which Christina moreover opened up about her break up from Josh Hall — claiming she would get the “silent treatment” from him if she interacted with Tarek
Over eight years following their break up, Christina Haack and Tarek El Moussa are attempting once more at what led to the tip of their marriage — and the ups and downs of their relationship since.
All through Wednesday’s sequence premiere of HGTV’s The Flip Off, the earlier couple sat down for a dialog at Christina’s Newport Seashore dwelling, with Christina and Tarek every turning into emotional as they mirrored on the struggles they’ve passed by since their divorce and at last — and tearfully — reached a spot of forgiveness.
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“I do know we’re in a wonderful place now,” Christina, 41, suggested Tarek, 43 by tears. “Nonetheless yeah, we glided by an entire lot of stuff. I don’t suppose anyone understands merely how lots stuff we glided by.”
“We met as soon as we had been so youthful,” added Christina, who was 22 when met a then-24-year-old Tarek. “When our stuff imploded, I felt like not solely did I lose… we had been best associates, however as well as I felt like I misplaced like, I have to be a full-time mom. And that mainly, truly, truly hurt me somewhat lots and truly affected me.”
Tarek then moreover turned emotional, telling his ex-wife, “I understand that feeling of being considerably bit misplaced. And I acknowledge that I’m an enormous half, if not the whole half, of all of this.”
By way of sobs, Christina apologized to Tarek, saying, “I’m truly sorry for s–t too. I truly am. I merely want you to know that.”
Tarek reassured Christina that it was alright, putting his hand on her knee in comfort.
“Forgive me?” Christina requested her ex, who replied, “100%, yeah.”
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“100%. I did an entire lot of points too,” Tarek talked about, getting choked up. “I’m sorry. It’s okay. I keep zero in the direction of you.”
The emotional dialog continued as Christina praised Tarek’s operate as a father.
“You might be an necessary dad. I’m truly happy with you. You might have come a really nice distance. I can see it, you already know,” she talked about to Tarek, who wiped tears from his face. “You’re a lot calmer, you’re a lot wiser, for precise.”
The pair launched their break up in December 2016 after seven years of marriage — following an altercation involving a gun and the police, which Tarek detailed in his memoir, Flip Your Life: How one can Uncover Various in Distress — in Precise Property, Enterprise and Life. No costs had been filed in the direction of the HGTV star.
Whereas speaking in separate confessionals all through Wednesday’s premiere, every Christina and Tarek mirrored on the dissolution of their relationship.
“I obtained recognized with most cancers after which I hurt my once more. I misplaced 60 lbs. on account of I was taking so many opiates and Vicodin and painkillers,” Tarek suggested the TLC cameras. “I misplaced my means, misplaced who I was. I merely wasn’t probably the greatest husband. I wasn’t probably the greatest father. You acknowledge, I private my s–t. It wasn’t me, however it certainly was me.”
“Tarek didn’t always cope with me correct, and he’ll admit that,” Christina talked about, together with that her ex was “further focused on work than his family.”
“After we break up up, it’s desire it compelled him to be like, oh, I’ve to be present for these kids,” she continued.
Tarek and Christina’s marriage was finalized in 2018, and the two continued to film their current collectively, sooner than it resulted in 2022. Tarek went on to tie the knot with Heather Rae El Moussa in 2021. The couple welcomed son, Tristan, in February 2023.
Christina, within the meantime, moved on with Ant Anstead, whom she married in 2018, and shares son Hudson. The pair break up in 2020, and their divorce was finalized in 2021. Christina secretly tied the knot for a third time later that 12 months, marrying realtor Josh Hall, sooner than calling it quits earlier this 12 months.
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Christina Emotionally Reveals Josh Hall Break as much as Tarek
Christina and Tarek’s dialog on Wednesday’s premiere began with the earlier revealing that her marriage to Hall had come to an end.
“I do know that look. What’s going on on? You good?” Tarek requested when he arrived at Christina’s dwelling, with the realtor telling her ex, “No … Josh and I formally break up up.”
“We had a blow up… middle fingers in my face,” she continued. “Points with Josh have been unhealthy for a really very long time.”
Christina — who shares Taylor, 14, and Brayden, 9, with Tarek, and son Hudson, 5, with ex Ant Anstead — talked about her kids “truly requested me to go away.”
“They suggested me he isn’t good to me. Why would I stick spherical?” she added.
The mom of three claimed that Josh would usually give her the “silent treatment,” and wouldn’t talk to her for numerous days if she thankfully interacted with Tarek.
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“You make him very insecure,” Christina talked about. “Every time we might barely joke at [the kids’] soccer [games], or if I laughed at you, he like wouldn’t talk to me for two to thre days. I’d get silent treatment.”
She then shared how Josh allegedly seen her, telling Tarek, “He doesn’t like me, calls me cocky. He thinks I’m immodest. We every know I’m not cocky or immodest. I merely do work.”
Tarek assured her that her ex was improper. “You aren’t another these issue,” he talked about. “He’s projecting. You’re an necessary mother, an necessary daughter. You’re a pleasant human.”
Christina went on to develop to be emotional as she opened up regarding the struggles she’s confronted in relationships since she and Tarek break up.
“I actually really feel like I’m in a tornado regularly and I merely can not get out of it,” she talked about by tears/
All of the items since like 2016 has merely been so laborious and so horrible. There’s so many good points nevertheless there’s just so many unhealthy points. It’s merely truly taken a really unhealthy toll on me.”
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“I actually really feel like I try to cowl it and act like I’m not affected,” she added, “nevertheless then I merely do further foolish points to aim to make myself actually really feel larger after which I protect doing it and transferring into points too fast that I do know aren’t correct.”
Josh filed for divorce from Christina in July 2024 after nearly three years of marriage, and the pair have since been involved in a contentious licensed battle ever since. The Flip Off, which was launched in May 2024, two months sooner than Josh and Christina’s break up, was initially set to star the now-exes as teammates competing in a house-flipping showdown in the direction of Tarek and his partner Heather.
After Josh filed for divorce, Christina returned to filming with out him.
On Wednesday’s premiere, she mirrored on the tip of her third marriage in a confessional.
“I under no circumstances wanted to get divorced,” she talked about. “I’m the one particular person in my family to ever break up. So I merely actually really feel desire it’s safer to be once more in a relationship, nevertheless lastly that was not protected each.”
The Flip Off airs on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on HGTV.
