Bethenny Frankel shared some harsh confessions about her unhappy marriage to second husband Jason Hoppy this week.
The Real Housewives Of New York City alum, 53, spoke out on her podcast Newly divorced B about the rapidly declining affection between the two and admitted she had to ‘force’ herself to have sex with Hoppy, 53, over time due to her lack of interest in being intimate with him.
In the end, things got so dire between the two that the reality star was “relieved” when she miscarried at six weeks.
Bethenny, who flaunted her slender figure in a blue bikini earlier this month, began dating Hoppy in 2008, and the couple married in 2010, before separating in 2012.
She filed for divorce in 2013 and the tortuous process dragged on for years, with the exes agreeing to a custody agreement in 2014 and a financial settlement in 2016, but the divorce wasn’t fully finalized until 2021, nearly a decade after they split. . .
Bethenny Frankel, 53, admitted sex with ex-husband Jason Hoppy was like ‘torture’ on Tuesday’s episode of her new podcast Just B Divorced (pictured).
She and Hoppy, 53, began dating in 2008 and married in 2010. They separated in 2012, but their divorce was not finalized until 2021; photographed in 2010 in Los Angeles.
Lately, Bethenny has been detailing the painful saga of her divorce on her new podcast.
According to Bethenny, as she and Jason grew apart, their occasional sexual episodes became increasingly difficult for her.
Her lack of desire for her husband led him to accuse her of being cold in bed.
“We were lying in bed and he used to tell me, ‘You’re like a block of ice,’ because he didn’t want to be intimate, he didn’t want to have sex,” she shared.
According to her, the root of the problem was that she simply no longer respected her husband.
“I didn’t want to have sex at all,” he continued. “He used to tell me, ‘It feels like this bed is like a block of ice.’
When they had sex later in their relationship, Bethenny had to do everything in her power to “force” herself to perform, even though she found the experience nauseating.
“I used to force myself, gag myself by doing it,” he said. “It was a torture”.
Despite her discomfort and trying to be intimate with Jason, it wasn’t until Bethenny became pregnant again (after welcoming daughter Bryn, now 13) and then miscarried at six weeks that she was able to “give the first step” to speak. about how unhappy she was with the relationship.
“In a constructive way, I said, ‘I feel a little relieved… because I don’t think this is a healthy or positive relationship,'” she recalled telling Jason.
However, he found nothing positive in the experience.
“He said, ‘You’re a real piece of shit, you know that?'” he said, before noting that it was a “total relief” when he decided to spend the next few days in a hotel. without her.
Bethenny is likely to delve into darker aspects of her divorce, such as Jason’s arrest in 2017 for allegedly stalking her.
“We were lying in bed and he used to tell me, ‘You’re like a block of ice,’ because I didn’t want to be intimate, I didn’t want to have sex,” she shared.
When they had sex later in their relationship, Bethenny had to do everything in her power to “force” herself to perform, although she said the experience would “gag” her; seen in 2012 in New York
Bethenny and Jason share daughter Bryn, 12. She admitted that a second pregnancy that ended in miscarriage was a relief; photographed in 2010 in Bethenny Getting Married
More recently, she has been happier with film producer and real estate developer Paul Bernon, whom she began dating later in 2018. They became engaged in 2021.
He strongly denied her claims and accepted a plea deal that required him to stay away from Bethenny for six months (as required by a restraining order), after which the case would be dismissed.
Following their divorce, the former Real Housewife dated banker Dennis Shields for two years, until his death in 2018.
More recently, she seems happier than ever in her relationship with film producer and real estate developer Paul Bernon, whom she later began dating in 2018.
The lovebirds got engaged in 2021.