The exes obtained emotional as they apologized for previous conduct to one another on the sequence premiere of their new present, by which Christina additionally opened up about her break up from Josh Corridor — claiming she would get the “silent remedy” from him if she interacted with Tarek
Over eight years following their break up, Christina Haack and Tarek El Moussa are trying again at what led to the tip of their marriage — and the ups and downs of their relationship since.
Throughout Wednesday’s sequence premiere of HGTV’s The Flip Off, the previous couple sat down for a dialog at Christina’s Newport Seashore dwelling, with Christina and Tarek each turning into emotional as they mirrored on the struggles they’ve gone by since their divorce and finally — and tearfully — reached a spot of forgiveness.
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“I do know we’re in an excellent place now,” Christina, 41, advised Tarek, 43 by tears. “However yeah, we went by a whole lot of stuff. I do not suppose anybody understands simply how a lot stuff we went by.”
“We met once we had been so younger,” 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 finest associates, but in addition I felt like I misplaced like, I must be a full-time mother. And that basically, actually, actually harm me rather a lot and actually affected me.”
Tarek then additionally turned emotional, telling his ex-wife, “I perceive that feeling of being somewhat bit misplaced. And I acknowledge that I am a giant half, if not the complete half, of all of this.”
Via sobs, Christina apologized to Tarek, saying, “I am actually sorry for s–t too. I actually am. I simply need you to know that.”
Tarek reassured Christina that it was alright, placing his hand on her knee in consolation.
“Forgive me?” Christina requested her ex, who replied, “100%, yeah.”
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“100%. I did a whole lot of issues too,” Tarek mentioned, getting choked up. “I am sorry. It is okay. I maintain zero towards you.”
The emotional dialog continued as Christina praised Tarek’s function as a father.
“You are an important dad. I am actually pleased with you. You have come a very great distance. I can see it, you already know,” she mentioned to Tarek, who wiped tears from his face. “You are a lot calmer, you are a lot wiser, for actual.”
The pair introduced 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 you can Discover Alternative in Misery — in Actual Property, Enterprise and Life. No prices had been filed towards the HGTV star.
Whereas talking in separate confessionals throughout Wednesday’s premiere, each Christina and Tarek mirrored on the dissolution of their relationship.
“I obtained identified with most cancers after which I harm my again. I misplaced 60 lbs. as a result of I used to be taking so many opiates and Vicodin and painkillers,” Tarek advised the TLC cameras. “I misplaced my means, misplaced who I used to be. I simply wasn’t one of the best husband. I wasn’t one of the best father. You recognize, I personal my s–t. It wasn’t me, but it surely was me.”
“Tarek did not at all times deal with me proper, and he’ll admit that,” Christina mentioned, including that her ex was “extra targeted on work than his household.”
“After we break up up, it is prefer it compelled him to be like, oh, I’ve to be current for these youngsters,” she continued.
Tarek and Christina’s marriage was finalized in 2018, and the 2 continued to movie their present collectively, earlier 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, in 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 3rd time later that 12 months, marrying realtor Josh Corridor, earlier than calling it quits earlier this 12 months.
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Christina Emotionally Reveals Josh Corridor Break up to Tarek
Christina and Tarek’s dialog on Wednesday’s premiere started with the previous revealing that her marriage to Corridor had come to an finish.
“I do know that look. What is 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… center fingers in my face,” she continued. “Issues with Josh have been unhealthy for a very long time.”
Christina — who shares Taylor, 14, and Brayden, 9, with Tarek, and son Hudson, 5, with ex Ant Anstead — mentioned her youngsters “actually requested me to go away.”
“They advised me he isn’t good to me. Why would I stick round?” she added.
The mother of three claimed that Josh would typically give her the “silent remedy,” and wouldn’t communicate to her for a number of days if she fortunately interacted with Tarek.
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“You make him very insecure,” Christina mentioned. “Each time we would barely joke at [the kids’] soccer [games], or if I laughed at you, he like wouldn’t communicate to me for 2 to thre days. I’d get silent remedy.”
She then shared how Josh allegedly noticed her, telling Tarek, “He does not like me, calls me cocky. He thinks I am conceited. We each know I am not cocky or conceited. I simply do work.”
Tarek assured her that her ex was improper. “You are not some other these factor,” he mentioned. “He is projecting. You’re an important mom, an important daughter. You’re a nice human.”
Christina went on to grow to be emotional as she opened up in regards to the struggles she’s confronted in relationships since she and Tarek break up.
“I really feel like I’m in a twister on a regular basis and I simply cannot get out of it,” she mentioned by tears/
All the pieces since like 2016 has simply been so laborious and so horrible. There’s so many good issues however there’s simply so many unhealthy issues. It is simply actually taken a very unhealthy toll on me.”
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“I really feel like I attempt to cover it and act like I’m not affected,” she added, “however then I simply do extra silly issues to attempt to make myself really feel higher after which I preserve doing it and moving into issues too quick that I do know aren’t proper.”
Josh filed for divorce from Christina in July 2024 after almost three years of marriage, and the pair have since been concerned in a contentious authorized battle ever since. The Flip Off, which was introduced in Could 2024, two months earlier than Josh and Christina’s break up, was initially set to star the now-exes as teammates competing in a house-flipping showdown towards Tarek and his spouse 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 by no means needed to get divorced,” she mentioned. “I’m the one individual in my household to ever break up. So I simply really feel prefer it’s safer to be again in a relationship, however finally that was not protected both.”
The Flip Off airs on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on HGTV.
