Christina Haack broke down in tears in a new preview of her reality show Flip Off.
The beauty was sitting on a couch in her Orange County, California, mansion while talking to her ex-husband Tarek El Moussa.
The home improvement specialist, 41, said things got very bad with her third husband, Josh Hall, 44.
It wasn’t long before Christina began to sob as she wiped away tears. Tarek, 43, seemed sad for his ex as he looked away and tried his best to be a rock for her.
“Josh and I have officially broken up,” the California native said.
“We had an explosion… middle finger in my face,” she says, adding that things with Josh had been “bad for a long time.”
Josh filed for divorce in July 2024 after nearly three years of marriage and was scheduled to co-star alongside Christina and Tarek in The Flip Off, but following their breakup, Christina resumed filming without him.
In the emotional clip, Christina recounts the explosive end of her marriage
But the most heartbreaking moment comes when Christina reveals the impact on her and Tarek’s children, Taylor, 14, and Brayden, 9.
Christina Haack broke down in tears in a new preview of her reality show Flip Off. The beauty was sitting on a couch in her mansion in Orange County, California, when she was talking to her ex-husband Tarek El Moussa.
The 41-year-old home improvement specialist said things got very bad with her third husband, 44-year-old Josh Hall.
“The kids literally asked me to leave,” he says, breaking down. “They told me he’s not nice to me. Why would I stay?”
Christina explains that she feels like she is constantly trapped in a tornado, unable to escape, before breaking down in tears.
He goes on to say that everything since 2016 has been incredibly difficult and painful, which has taken a heavy toll on him emotionally.
Christina and Tarek’s marriage ended in 2016 after a tense incident in which Tarek fled with a gun and entered rehab.
Despite a bumpy road in co-parenting, they have mostly maintained a positive relationship in recent years.
In the preview of The Flip Off, CChristina apologizes to Tarek and tells him, “I’m so sorry for the shit too.” I really am. I just want you to know.
Tarek, getting a little emotional, responds: ‘I understand that feeling of being a little lost. And I recognize that I am a large part, if not the entirety, of all of this.”
Last month, Haack said Hall’s departure from The Flip Off made production much easier.
It wasn’t long before Christina began to sob as she wiped away tears. Tarek, 43, seemed sad for his ex as he looked away and tried his best to be a rock for her.
“The kids literally asked me to leave,” he says, breaking down. “They told me he’s not nice to me. Why would I stay?”
she said Entertainment tonight It was difficult to film the show due to her ex-husband’s insecurity.
“When someone feels insecure around you and doesn’t like to see you win, that really puts a damper on everything,” the reality star explained.
Haack, who changed her name to Hall when the couple married in April 2022, reverted to using her maiden name.
‘I feel like I wasn’t shining as bright, to try not to make him feel emasculated. But who wants to live like this?’ she asked.
“To be honest, it wasn’t fun,” she explained. “I didn’t enjoy filming with him, so being separated made this, to be honest, much easier and much better in every way.”
Haack had no problems on set with her first ex-husband, Tarek.
El Moussa and his wife, Heather Rae, 37, co-star in the house flipping show set to debut in 2025.
“Tarek and I have our own dynamic, and some might call it ‘flirty,'” she said, explaining that it was more of a “brother type thing.”
Haack said he had been using El Moussa as a sounding board and “telling him things were bad for at least a year…probably 18 months.”
She was confiding in Tarek, pictured here with wife Heather Rae in Los Angeles in October.
Haack was recently seen filming scenes for The Flip Off with her second ex, Ant Anstead, recently in Los Angeles; photographed in Los Angeles in May 2019)
El Moussa revealed that Haack seemed to be getting back to her old self after filing for divorce in July.
“At first, she was going through it, you know, but she recovers very quickly,” he told ET.
‘You can see that he has regained his energy. She is happy. She is excited about life and thinks she is doing well.
Ant Anstead, 45, Haack’s second ex-husband, was seen filming some scenes for The Flip Off recently in Los Angeles.