Sutton Stracke and ex-husband Christian Stracke’s coparenting dynamic hit a snag when he relocated around the pond to London.
“He moved in June [2023], and it’s been difficult,” Sutton, 52, completely instructed Us Weekly on Tuesday, January 23, whilst discussing the present season of The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills. “We coparent very well together, but it’s hard to coparent with someone that’s in England and I’m in California, so it’s like, the time [difference] is really far.”
Sutton and Christian, 52, had been married between 2000 and 2016 and percentage 3 youngsters: daughter Porter, 21, and sons Philip, 20, and James, 17. Whilst each Porter and Philip attend faculty out of state, James remains to be in highschool in California.
“I have my son with me all the time. Every time I turn around, he’s there, he’s there. I’m like, ‘Oh, there’s James,’” Sutton published to Us. “And meanwhile, [this is] a very big part of my life where I’m busy and working.”
She persisted, “I was used to week-on, week-off, week-on, week-off, and that’s how I developed my schedule, [but] I can’t do that anymore. This month of January has been really busy with work, and I had to tell [James], ‘Look, January is going to be crazy, and then it’s going to calm down,’ and he understands that we have to work together, the two of us.”
Because of this, Sutton and James have “gotten really close.”
“Closer than you would think a mother and a teenage boy would get,” she joked. “I always call us the ‘odd couple.’ I make dinner, we eat, we watch our show [and] we talk, we hang out together. And so, in a way, it’s this very strange blessing that Christian gave me [when he moved], because I get James, my son, with me all the time, so thank you, Christian.”
Whilst Sutton admitted that their circle of relatives state of affairs “is not easy,” it’s “working” at the moment. “It’s a blessing,” she gushed.
Sutton balances parenthood with paintings at her eponymous style boutique and filming episodes of RHOBH.
“We had a night where just Erika [Jayne], Garcelle [Beauvais] and I [were filming and we] had the best time,” Sutton recalled to Us of season 13. “The three of us just relaxed, and I think we all three were surprised at how much fun we had together. We kept saying, ‘We have to do this again off camera because we have a lot in common.’”
Sutton famous that the threesome is alike as a result of they're divorced unmarried moms and all “kind of pretty funny.”
“They make fun of me, which is fine, but we like to talk about all kinds of different topics and [we’re] really smart businesswomen, and so it was a really good trio,” Sutton quipped.
Whilst Sutton has loved her RHOBH tenure, her 3 youngsters don't seem to be large lovers of staring at her on truth TV.
“The first season we watched because it was COVID, so we didn’t have anything else to watch. So they’re like, ‘Let’s watch Mommy on TV.’ And now I think my daughter watches it and she’s a senior in college now. My middle son is over it, and James has never watched it,” she mentioned on Tuesday. “This season I’ve been a bit more risqué, [like at] that dinner from hell, [I] whipped out [a] joint and I told them that I did this, and then I talked to them about smoking marijuana and [asked], ‘Do you?’ and I said, ‘Don’t.’ So, I got to have conversations with them because I did that.”
In other places in season 13, Sutton reentered the courting scene post-divorce through hiring a matchmaker.
“I’m talking more about my own sexuality and things like that,” Sutton mentioned, noting she remains to be unmarried however now not running with the matchmaker. “My daughter and I have had conversations about it. So [the show] has allowed me to get closer to them.”
The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills airs on Bravo Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET.
With reporting through Christina Garibaldi