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All through Wednesday’s sequence premiere of HGTV’s The Flip Off, the earlier couple sat down for a dialog at Christina’s Newport Seashore dwelling, with Christina and Tarek every turning into emotional as they mirrored on the struggles they’ve passed by since their divorce and at last — and tearfully — reached a spot of forgiveness.

“I do know we’re in a wonderful place now,” Christina, 41, suggested Tarek, 43 by tears. “Nonetheless yeah, we glided by a complete lot of stuff. I don’t suppose anyone understands merely how rather a lot stuff we glided by.”

“We met as soon as we had been so youthful,” added Christina, who was 22 when met a then-24-year-old Tarek. “When our stuff imploded, I felt like not solely did I lose… we had been most interesting associates, however as well as I felt like I misplaced like, I have to be a full-time mom. And that mainly, really, really hurt me quite rather a lot and really affected me.”

Tarek then moreover turned emotional, telling his ex-wife, “I understand that feeling of being considerably bit misplaced. And I acknowledge that I’m a large half, if not the entire half, of all of this.”

Through sobs, Christina apologized to Tarek, saying, “I’m really sorry for s–t too. I really am. I merely want you to know that.”

Tarek reassured Christina that it was alright, putting his hand on her knee in comfort.

“Forgive me?” Christina requested her ex, who replied, “100%, yeah.”

“100%. I did a complete lot of points too,” Tarek talked about, getting choked up. “I’m sorry. It’s okay. I preserve zero in direction of you.”

The emotional dialog continued as Christina praised Tarek’s perform as a father.

“You might be an necessary dad. I’m really happy with you. You will have come a really nice distance. I can see it, you already know,” she talked about to Tarek, who wiped tears from his face. “You’re a lot calmer, you’re a lot wiser, for precise.”

The pair launched their break up in December 2016 after seven years of marriage — following an altercation involving a gun and the police, which Tarek detailed in his memoir, Flip Your Life: How one can Uncover Different in Distress — in Precise Property, Enterprise and Life. No costs had been filed in direction of the HGTV star.

Whereas speaking in separate confessionals all through Wednesday’s premiere, every Christina and Tarek mirrored on the dissolution of their relationship.

“I obtained recognized with most cancers after which I hurt my once more. I misplaced 60 lbs. because of I was taking so many opiates and Vicodin and painkillers,” Tarek suggested the TLC cameras. “I misplaced my means, misplaced who I was. I merely wasn’t probably the greatest husband. I wasn’t probably the greatest father. You acknowledge, I private my s–t. It wasn’t me, but it surely absolutely was me.”

“Tarek didn’t always cope with me correct, and he’ll admit that,” Christina talked about, together with that her ex was “additional focused on work than his family.”

“After we break up up, it’s favor it compelled him to be like, oh, I’ve to be present for these kids,” she continued.

Tarek and Christina’s marriage was finalized in 2018, and the two continued to film their current collectively, sooner than it resulted in 2022. Tarek went on to tie the knot with Heather Rae El Moussa in 2021. The couple welcomed son, Tristan, in February 2023.

Christina, within the meantime, moved on with Ant Anstead, whom she married in 2018, and shares son Hudson. The pair break up in 2020, and their divorce was finalized in 2021. Christina secretly tied the knot for a third time later that 12 months, marrying realtor Josh Hall, sooner than calling it quits earlier this 12 months.

Christina and Tarek’s dialog on Wednesday’s premiere began with the earlier revealing that her marriage to Hall had come to an end.

“I do know that look. What’s going on on? You good?” Tarek requested when he arrived at Christina’s dwelling, with the realtor telling her ex, “No … Josh and I formally break up up.”

“We had a blow up… heart fingers in my face,” she continued. “Points with Josh have been unhealthy for a really very long time.”

Christina — who shares Taylor, 14, and Brayden, 9, with Tarek, and son Hudson, 5, with ex Ant Anstead — talked about her kids “really requested me to go away.”

“They suggested me he isn’t good to me. Why would I stick spherical?” she added.

The mom of three claimed that Josh would sometimes give her the “silent treatment,” and wouldn’t talk to her for quite a lot of days if she luckily interacted with Tarek.

“You make him very insecure,” Christina talked about. “Every time we’d barely joke at [the kids’] soccer [games], or if I laughed at you, he like wouldn’t talk to me for two to thre days. I’d get silent treatment.”

She then shared how Josh allegedly observed her, telling Tarek, “He doesn’t like me, calls me cocky. He thinks I’m immodest. We every know I’m not cocky or immodest. I merely do work.”

Tarek assured her that her ex was improper. “You aren’t another these issue,” he talked about. “He’s projecting. You’re an necessary mother, an necessary daughter. You’re a pleasant human.”

Christina went on to develop to be emotional as she opened up regarding the struggles she’s confronted in relationships since she and Tarek break up.

“I actually really feel like I’m in a tornado frequently and I merely can not get out of it,” she talked about by tears/
All of the items since like 2016 has merely been so laborious and so horrible. There’s so many good points nonetheless there’s just so many unhealthy points. It’s merely really taken a really unhealthy toll on me.”

“I actually really feel like I try and cowl it and act like I’m not affected,” she added, “nonetheless then I merely do additional foolish points to aim to make myself actually really feel increased after which I protect doing it and shifting into points too fast that I do know aren’t correct.”

Josh filed for divorce from Christina in July 2024 after virtually three years of marriage, and the pair have since been involved in a contentious licensed battle ever since. The Flip Off, which was launched in May 2024, two months sooner than Josh and Christina’s break up, was initially set to star the now-exes as teammates competing in a house-flipping showdown in direction of Tarek and his partner Heather.

After Josh filed for divorce, Christina returned to filming with out him.

On Wednesday’s premiere, she mirrored on the tip of her third marriage in a confessional.

“I not at all wanted to get divorced,” she talked about. “I’m the one particular person in my family to ever break up. So I merely actually really feel favor it’s safer to be once more in a relationship, nonetheless lastly that was not protected each.”

The Flip Off airs on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on HGTV.