Carl Radke Details Getting a Bottle of Wine After Split from Lindsay Hubbard

Carl Radke was given a bottle of wine, even though he was sober, within hours of breaking up with his ex-fiancee Lindsay Hubbard.

“Part of the conversation at the end was, ‘Well, what are you going to do here?’” Carl, 39, recalled in the Thursday, May 30, episode. Summer house after the show. “I said, ‘I’ll take some space, give him the apartment,’ and so I got a hotel room that night down the street.”

Carl noted that “funnily enough” he had stayed at the same hotel when he and Lindsay, 37, had previously had a “serious conflict”.

“(I) walk in (and) the guy at the front desk says, ‘Are you okay?’ And I wasn’t okay,” Carl added. “I was crying and just disheveled. He says to me, “You know, I’m really sorry, you’re having a hard time” (and) gives me the key to my room. I go up to my room, two minutes later I knock on the door. ‘Mr. Radke, sorry, you’re going through a tough time. We have a chilled bottle of wine for you at reception.’”

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Carl, who has been sober since 2021, had called off his engagement to Lindsay several hours earlier. The August 2023 breakup took place months before their planned wedding, and Lindsay claimed the split conversation was out of the blue. Carl, meanwhile, claimed that he didn’t catch Lindsay off guard given that they had been fighting throughout. Summer house season 8. (Carl has since expressed remorse for how he handled the situation.)

Carl was initially shocked when he was handed the bottle of wine.

“At that point, I said to myself, ‘I’m not drinking,’ and I just closed the door,” he recalled Thursday. “I could have very easily taken that bottle and just closed the door and no one would have ever known. Luckily I didn’t and went back to Pittsburgh for a few days to try to let things calm down.

Carl was a cast member on Bravo’s Summer house since 2017, two years before giving up alcohol.

“I basically got sober from March (2020) until mid-June. At the start of the season I felt really good,” Carl said previously. Us every week in February 2021. “I learned a lot about myself; I don’t need to drink to have fun or to be a cool guy. …And I definitely had other things that I was working on personally and it’s just better to work on them when you’re sober. So, I went in this summer thinking that moderation was going to be my friend. I felt really good about it. I will say it’s hard being at home with everyone and having all these different things going on.

Carl further claimed in a Friday, May 31 New York Times profile that the cast used to get drunk during the first two seasons of the Bravo hit.

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“With the volume of drinking, only we decided to do it,” he said, denying previous reality stars’ claims that they were encouraged by the network to drink. “We loved to party. I tell you, they took the drinks out of our hands.

Since getting sober, Carl has credited the show with “saving[his]life.”

“I’d like to think the show saved my life – seriously, I don’t know if I would have ever seen myself behaving properly,” he told the newspaper. “I always thought it was fun to have people around me, but as time went on, that wasn’t the case anymore.”

When Carl started dating his longtime friend Lindsay, she made sure to support his sobriety. However, things came to a head in season 8. In a March episode, Lindsay claimed Carl acted like he was “on cocaine” during an explosive fight.

“After re-watching this week’s episode, I wish I had used better wording,” she later said in a statement on social media. “I was emotional and hurt by what happened earlier that night, and what I said was meant to be a private conversation at home with one of my best friends. I never questioned his sobriety before that moment and from day one, I was his biggest supporter.

If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, contact the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).