Tarek El Moussa were given actual about how his divorce from Christina Corridor became his existence the other way up.
“When my ex left me, I went to some soul-searching places,” El Moussa, 42, printed all over the Monday, January 8, episode of the “Jeff Fenster Show” podcast. “I actually lived in a halfway house. This is my first time sharing that.”
The Flipping 101 host became to the communal house on account of his “turmoil” all over that point. “I didn’t trust myself to be alone,” El Moussa confessed. “That’s how bad I was.”
He persisted: “The reason I ended up there is because I didn’t know where to go and I needed 24-hour care. It was pretty bad because I had lost everything, it felt like, overnight. There were so many things going on.”
El Moussa famous, “It took me years to get over my divorce. I’m talking rock bottom. I did not want to be alive. It was that bad.” He defined that about 10 months after his break up he discovered that “life isn’t fair,” which he referred to as a “defining moment.”
El Moussa and Corridor, 40, referred to as it quits in 2016 after seven years of marriage, finalizing their divorce in 2018. Their breakup got here 3 years after El Moussa was once identified with two varieties of most cancers, which he defined modified how he acted.
“Looking back, I wasn’t the best guy. I wasn’t the best husband. Definitely wasn’t the best father,” El Moussa, who stocks daughter Taylor, 13, and son Brayden, 8, with Corridor, admitted. “No excuses, I was going through a lot at the time, but my actions were not the best.”
The HGTV persona famous that his existence “has been filled with so much pain,” which he’s used as “fuel” over time. Now, he mentioned he's “so grateful” for his existence and “everything I have,” together with his spouse, Heather Rae El Moussa, and their son, Tristan, who was once born in January 2023.
“Through all this hell and misery and turmoil and all this nonsense I’ve been through all these years, today I am happier than I’ve ever been,” Tarek mentioned, including that lovers can be told extra about his highs and lows in his upcoming memoir, Turn Your Lifestyles.
Corridor has additionally moved on following her divorce from Tarek. She wed Ant Anstead in December 2018, and the pair welcomed their son, Hudson, in September 2019. Corridor and Anstead, 44, divorced in 2020. Christina married Joshua Corridor in 2022.