Nicole Curtis is making her return to HGTV with an all-new season of Rehab Addict, following a number of important life modifications in recent times.
Talking to Individuals forward of the brand new season, which premieres at present, Tuesday, June 24, Curtis revealed how a “devastating setback” in her life had a profound affect, resulting in some main selections.
“I had a setback in my life that simply rocked me to the core, and it was a kind of moments the place I assumed, how do I get by way of this one?” she informed the outlet. Whereas she didn’t share precise particulars of what occurred, Curtis added, “I prayed on it and it was simply devastating for me. I needed to decide proper there after which like, ‘Okay, we’re going to let this have an effect on us for a really very long time, or we’re going to select it up and go.’”
A kind of massive selections was shopping for a brand new residence in Wyoming—an unfinished Eighteen Nineties flip in want of considerable repairs. Within the upcoming ninth season of Rehab Addict, viewers will comply with Curtis and her group as they restore the Wyoming home, together with a Detroit property that had been overrun by squatters.
“I believe everybody will probably be so excited, since you see loads of acquainted faces,” Curtis mentioned of the brand new season. “All the fellows on my crew that [viewers have] beloved over time, they’re again. We’ve all stayed mates they usually’re right here.”
Nonetheless, a giant distinction within the new sequence would be the absence of Curtis’ household, together with her two sons, Ethan (born 1997), whom she shares with ex Steven Cimini, and Harper (born 2015), whom she shares with ex Shane Maguire.
“I realized my lesson,” Curtis mentioned of that includes her youngsters on TV. “I believe there’s one present we can provide our kids, and I give them privateness. They’re out in public with me so much, and I defend them.”
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She continued, “My son, once we first began the TV present… we didn’t have all of the social media presence. He was in sixth grade, he thought it was cool, and his buddies thought it was cool to be on TV. They usually nonetheless make enjoyable of him as a result of they’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, we will see you as a younger boy, you had braces’ and all this. However I gained’t try this once more. My boys are my most treasured, treasured issues in the whole world to me.”
One one that is ready to look on Season 9 is Curtis’ ex-boyfriend, Ryan Sawtelle, a carpenter who will help with the work on the Wyoming property.
“We have been collectively a very long time and I used to be very near his household,” Curtis defined. “So we by no means actually stayed out of contact. Your lives are so enmeshed. I didn’t know anybody in Wyoming, however I knew any individual close to Wyoming, and so I gave him a name.”
Curtis added, “We simply went on the market collectively and checked out the home. It wasn’t anything. There was positively no reconciliation or ‘Perhaps this was a mistake not being collectively.’ No, no, no, …. Us going separate paths was 100% one of the best concept that we ever had.”
As for whether or not she is at present courting anybody, Curtis stored that data to herself. “I hold my non-public life non-public and since I believe there’s been some very traumatic moments in my life that weren’t so non-public,” she shared. “One other lesson realized. I inform folks on a regular basis, should you’re in my circle, then what’s happening in my life. Apart from that, I keep fairly mute about the whole lot.”
Curtis was embroiled in a tense, years-long custody battle over Harper with Maguire, along with her resolution to proceed breastfeeding her son at age 3 turning into a degree of rivalry within the authorized combat. The previous couple got here to a custody settlement in October 2018.
“Our household went by way of so much over time, and in order that’s positively one thing that I’ve finished my greatest to maintain my household out of the general public eye and give attention to the homes,” she acknowledged. “That’s at all times the place we needed that focus to be.”
Whereas Curtis’ sons gained’t seem within the sequence, the boys did encourage one among her favourite moments from the brand new season.
“I bought to trip in a monster truck,” she revealed. “Which may appear sort of foolish, however I’ve boys, proper? I’m a boy mother and so I’ve at all times beloved monster vans. I believe they’re superb. And I at all times mentioned like, ‘Man, I wish to go in a monster truck and I wish to soar them. And lo and behold, on this little tiny city in Wyoming, that they had a monster truck rally.”
Rehab Addict, Season 9, Premieres, Tuesday, June 24, 9 pm et, HGTV