Bethenny Frankel has finally addressed her breakup with ex-fiancé Paul Bernon.
The former “Real Housewives of New York City” actress revealed she “initiated” the split, but acknowledged it “was definitely mutual.”
Her tone changed, however, when the 45-year-old investment banker moved on so publicly with Aurora Culpo, who spoke openly about their new romance on her podcast “Barely Filtered.”
“Hearing that your ex-fiancé got involved with another woman shortly after on their first date, and then being in the thick of their relationship, hearing about their gender and their gifts and meeting each other’s kids and the level of commitment,” Frankel shared on her “Just B With Bethenny” podcast Sunday.
“It was heartbreaking, it was brutal.”
Frankel, 53, said Bernon and Culpo, 35, “committed to each other” after just six weeks of dating while she had been with him for six years.
“It’s embarrassing,” the former Bravolebrity member told her listeners, adding that it was “hard” for her to be described as an “old maid.”
“Being portrayed as the jilted ex who got promoted — that my ex left me with a younger woman — and that was regurgitating the ongoing narrative that he’s a very under-the-radar person who’s now gotten serious with someone,” she explained.
“While, ironically, I was the most discreet person.”
Frankel concluded her brief podcast episode by sending Culpo a message about how to deal with men’s exes in the future, encouraging her to “think of the other woman in any situation.”
“If you’re the new woman in a relationship, you have to take it slow and be mindful of the woman before you, because we’ve all been in both situations,” Frankel implored.
“I think by sharing all the details of your new relationship you are disrespecting the last relationship.”
Culpo revealed during a podcast episode with her sister Olivia about two weeks ago that she and Bernon had already met each other’s children.
“He met them twice, like on FaceTime and stuff,” Aurora told the former Miss Universe winner.
She told Olivia, 32, that her children “really” loved Bernon before exclaiming: “He’s really nice. He’s got his two kids, who are 17 and 14. They’re older and they’re really nice.”
News of their romance broke when an eyewitness told Deuxmoi that Bernon and Aurora had kissed at Boston’s “Quin House.” A source later told Us Weekly that the duo had been dating for at least two months after Bernon and Frankel split earlier this year.
Despite the serious nature of the relationship, Olivia did not allow Aurora to take Bernon to her wedding to Christian McCaffrey in Rhode Island, which her sister found “rude.”
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