Season 8 of Summer House has been one of the books and has produced one of the most compelling stories in recent reality TV. However, it all came at the expense of Carl Radke and Lindsay Hubbard’s engagement.
Now, Carl is weighing in and discussing all that happened right after news broke that the two were going their separate ways on the Summer House After Show. Plus, Lindsay shares what hurt her the most from the situation.
Of course, fans have the reunion to look forward to. Not only has it been called dramatic, but it was the first time the exes were in the same room with each other since production had wrapped. Naturally, this should make for a pretty tense reunion.
Carl and Kyle Cooke start by discussing him being compared to Tom Sandoval and how there were rumors of him having impregnated a woman.
Kyle says, “I mean, these were some of the accusations. There was a girl that was knocked up by Carl at a Loverboy party, Carl blindsided Lindsay, and you basically didn’t feel the fire.”
Carl then says, “What’s been said in the media and how that’s played out has been nothing less than absolute insanity. I can understand why some celebrity people have struggled with the paparazzi thing. It’s dramatic. I’m just walking out of my apartment, and I have this huge camera lens in my face.”
Regarding the aftermath between himself and Lindsay, Carl says, “I said I’m gonna take some space and give her the apartment. So I got a hotel room that night. Down the street at a hotel, oddly enough, I have stayed there before when we’ve been in serious conflict, and I had to take some space.”
He says that things were so bad that the hotel front desk person asked if he was okay because he was so “disheveled.”
He then talks about almost relapsing that night. According to Carl, the hotel sent up a bottle of wine since he was having a hard night, and he denied it. However, he says, “I very easily could have taken that bottle of wine, and no one would ever know.”
After that, Kyle admits he went home to Pittsburgh to escape everything and how the fallout of the situation has been difficult for him.
He says, “This is just a sad breakup and nothing more than that.”
Lindsay also talks in the After Show about what hurts her the most.
She starts by saying that it was fine if he wanted to break up with her. However, she goes on to say, “How he did it was such a betrayal that betrayed eight years of friendship.”
She continues, “I like cared for him. He moved into my building, so I was his safety net. Like I was in love with him before we were even together. I stopped drinking to make sure he could get to his one year.”
After that, Lindsay tearfully says that Carl’s seeming not to care about all her sacrifices is “the ultimate betrayal.” She then says, “You made it f**king easy for me to move on.”
