HGTV star Christina HaackThe bitter divorce of Josh Hall took the front of the stage in the first episode of his new program, “The Flip Off”, which saw the starlet frankly explain what led to the breakdown of her marriage.
Haack and Hall called to leave on their relationship in July 2024 – just two weeks after starting to film a new HGTV project alongside Tarek El Moussa and his wife Heather Rae El Moussa.
The show had initially stopped focusing on a renovation battle between the two couples; However, after Haack and Hall’s Divorce News emerged, the latter was quickly withdrawn from all the promotional documents in the series, with reports suggesting that Haack was going to enroll several guest stars to help him with his Flips at home.
While Hall no longer plays a central role in “The Flip Off”, his divorce was the main objective of his first episode – which captured the emotional moment that Haack melted in tears by telling Tarek that his relationship was finished.
After asking her to come to her house so that they can speak “in private”, she said to her former spouse – with whom she shared two children – that she and Hall were “officially separated”.
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“Things with Josh have been bad for a long time. Not just a little trouble. Like, bad, “continues Haack.” And the children literally asked me to leave. They told me that he was not nice to me.
She then admits to Tarek that Hall always made her “very unclean” – before claiming that Hall was bitterly jealous each time she and Tarek shared a friendly moment.
“Each time, as, we barely joked in football, or if I laugh, he like he did not speak to me for two to three days,” said Haack. “I would get silent treatment.
“He doesn’t like me,” says arrogant, “think I’m arrogant,” both we know that I am not arrogant or arrogant. I’m just working.
Tarek comforts Haack, reassuring her: “You are not one things, he projects.” He then adds: “You are a great mother, you are a great girl, you are a great human.”
Haack then thinks about how her life was launched in turmoil after she and Tarek separated in 2016, admitting that she had the impression of being in a “tornado” that she cannot escape .
“I have the impression of being in a tornado all the time, and I just can’t get out of it,” she said, melting into tears.
“Everything since, as, 2016, was so hard and horrible, honestly. There are so many good things, but there are so many bad things. And it really made me an assessment.
In an emotional confrontation, Haack admits to Tarek that she has the impression that her life has been in a turmoil since they divorced in 2016.
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“I feel like I try to hide it and act as if I were not affected, but I just do more stupid things to try to feel better. And I just continue to do it and then, as if to get into things too fast that is not, that I know not. »»
Later, Haack admits to the cameras that she “never wanted” to divorce herself from Tarek, suggesting that she only started the hall of meetings because she “felt safer” in a relationship What to be single.
“I never wanted to divorce,” she reveals. “I am the only one in my family to have divorced, so I felt like it is safer to be back in a relationship. But ultimately, it was not certain either. »»
Tarek urged her former spouse not to “be hard” on herself, conceding that the two “crossed a lot” as a result of their split.
“I know that we are like, in a good place now, but yes, we have gone through a lot,” says Haack. “I do not think that anyone understands how much we have experienced things and, as, we met when we were so young.”
She adds that one of the most difficult things about their split was the loss of her “best friend”, which prompted Tarek to confess her guilt on the difficulties she encountered.
“I understand that what’s a bit lost, you know?” He said to him. “And I recognize, you know, that I am a large part, if not the game, of all this.”
Thanks to tears, Haack replied: “And honestly, like, I’m really sorry for S—. I’m really. I want you to know. I want you to know that I am really sorry, I did really bizarre S. I’m really sorry, ok.
While Tarek has a sweet reconciliation with Haack, he is later seen to put himself in a bitter spit with his wife, Heather.
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Tarek then promises to always “make (she) back”, insisting that he tried to support her for “very long”.
The sweet reconciliation between the two exs is a contrast striking with the interaction El Moussas less than positive during the episode when they enter a furious spray on the interior design elements that Heather chose for the house that they return.
After Heather has taken out her cupboards chosen for cooking, Tarek asks to see “other options”, only for her spouse to inform him that she has already chosen those they will use.
Saissi by his decision, Tarek said: “Didn’t you ask me?” Only so that Heather insists that she did not “need” her contribution, before wondering if he does not like the appearance of the kitchen with its white and brown design chosen.
Tarek does not seem sure. “It is just not something that I normally see, because normally, you know, they would be consistent,” he explains.
“This house will not be something that you normally see. We take risks here, ”says Heather. “Think, like these high -end houses – they take risks.”
“Well, do we want to take risks?” Tarek meters. “I mean, we are in competition.”
“It can’t be boring. It is Heather’s house, “said Heather, then adds:” And yours. But-“
Tarek seems offended. “Just like our son. He is Heather’s son, ”he said before taking a break. “And mine. This house belongs to you. And mine. “”
In the end, Heather and Tarek’s Kitchen are declared winners of the guest judge Heather Dubrow.
However, Dubrow was incredibly impressed by Christina’s work and predicted that she could go to the lead at the end of the challenge.
Later, while they discuss the design of the house chimney, Heather admits that she feels additional pressure to nail the renovation – because she knows that viewers will compare it to Haack, opposing the old married posted.
“You bother me. You bother me. You bother me. I’m so stressed. You don’t even understand. Everyone is going to talk about me against me, ”shares Heather.
Later, in an interview with the producers, she admits that many is at stake with this design, saying: “I want to prove to Christina that she (she is not) not better than me.”
In the end, the guest judge, the star of “Real Housewives of Orange County” Heather DubrowDetermine that Tarek and Heather have gathered the winning cuisine. But while they won the battle, she predicts that Haack will claim victory in the renovation war.
“You have created a very nice space,” Dubrow told Heather and Tarek. “But you are so hot to win each challenge, especially Tarek, and think about the room. But you could win all the battles and lose the war. »»
She then looks at Haack, saying: “She seeks to win the war.”
By thinking about judgment, Heather does not seem satisfied. Even if her kitchen has won, she seems upset that Dubrow is so impressed by Haack.
“Sentence. I know that our design was incredible, so I say to myself:” What did she do? “Wonders Heather.
