Christina Haack has revealed that her emotionally susceptible scene with ex-husband Tarek El Moussa on Wednesday’s (January 29) season premiere of HGTV‘s The Flip Off wasn’t “intentional.”
After the scene obtained reward from viewers for displaying a uncooked and actual facet of the long-time HGTV personalities, Haack spoke with Individuals about the way it happened, admitting that the candid confessions between her and Tarek “weren’t even intentional” and all “simply got here out.”
The Flip Off was meant to be a house-flipping competitors collection between Haack and her then-husband, Josh Corridor, and her ex-husband Tarek and his spouse, Heather Rae El Moussa. Nevertheless, Haack and Corridor cut up early into filming, and the latter exited the present, which viewers noticed play out throughout Wednesday’s premiere.
Within the episode, Haack referred to as Tarek over to her Newport Seashore, California residence to interrupt the information that she and Corridor had separated. The scene rapidly grew to become emotional as Haack opened up about her struggles ever since she and Tarek cut up in December 2016.
“When [Tarek] came to visit, I had been coping with this in real-time for every week or two, and so I used to be simply emotional, hadn’t been sleeping,” she advised Individuals, referring to Corridor submitting for divorce in July 2024. “And so he walks in after which I similar to… all of it simply got here out.”
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“None of it was intentional, however I feel it was positively therapeutic for each of us,” she added. “And I feel some closure for viewers which have watched us since our mid-twenties and simply seeing the true uncooked second. It was very genuine and it wasn’t deliberate.”
Haack and Tarek first met in 2005 and married on April 17, 2009. They share two youngsters, daughter Taylor Reese (born 2010) and son Brayden James (born 2015). Followers first acquired to know the previous couple on the renovation collection Flip or Flop, which debuted on HGTV in 2013. They cut up in 2016 and finalized their divorce in 2018.
On Wednesday’s episode, Haack broke into tears as she mirrored on her previous with Tarek, saying, “I do know we’re in place now. However yeah, we went by way of numerous stuff. I don’t assume anybody understands simply how a lot stuff we went by way of. We met once we had been so younger.”
“When our stuff imploded, I felt like not solely did I lose… we had been greatest buddies, but in addition I felt like I misplaced like, I should be a full-time mother,” she continued. “And that actually, actually, actually damage me lots and actually affected me.”
Haack went on to apologize for a way she handled Tarek after their cut up and requested him to forgive her. Tarek stated he “one hundred pc” forgave her and likewise apologized himself, saying, “I did numerous issues too. I maintain zero towards you.”
The Flip Off, Season 1, Wednesdays, 8/7c, HGTV