Craig Conover cleared the air about many aspects of his breakup with Paige DeSorbo on Thursday's episode of Bravo's Watch What Happens Live.
The 35-year-old Conover and 32-year-old DeSorbo had been dating for three years before their abrupt split back in November.
Since then there have been no shortage of rumors about the split, including talk that DeSorbo had been cheating, which she has denied, and Conover would not discuss.
DeSorbo announced the split on her Giggly Squad podcast, and revealed the split was mutual... though Conover tells a much different tale.
He revealed at the Bravo Clubhouse in New York City on WWHL that he was 'blindsided' by a call he got from Paige while he was in Toronto, saying they should break up.
Conover also insists the split was definitely not mutual, since he was planning on moving to New York City to be with her and just days before the break-up they were even talking about their potential wedding.
Craig Conover cleared the air about many aspects of his breakup with Paige DeSorbo on Thursday's episode of Bravo's Watch What Happens Live
The 35-year-old Conover and 32-year-old DeSorbo had been dating for three years before their abrupt split back in November
Craig's Southern Charm co-star Austen Kroll was on a recent WWHL episode and seemingly confirmed that Paige already has a new man, though she has denied it.
When asked what he thought, Craig said, 'I think it's fair for me to say it's none of my business what she does anymore. I wasn't a part of any of the rumors. Like, I haven't said a word. Like my favorite person in the universe basically became a lesson all of a sudden. And how I've been grieving, I think, has been good. Like I haven't said a word,' he said, before detailing how the breakup went down.
'She called me after Thanksgiving. I was in Toronto about to do a show and was like, I think we have to break up. And then we were like, well, we'll talk about it. And then that was after Thanksgiving. And then I stayed at the apartment that week, but she wasn't there, but we were still facetiming and she said, I miss you and stuff,' he said.
He added that the Southern Charm press tour started that week but they didn't address the split, as he admitted, 'I had no reason to think she was serious. I thought she was just having like, a bad night or a breakdown.'
'So we had Thanksgiving with her family, and then I went to Toronto for an event, and she called me. But we've been together for three years a lot of stuff that we're not going to talk about tonight that like, I like plans that we had. And I was going to move to New York and all that stuff. So when she called and broke up with me, the last thing I was going to do is the next day when I was being interviewed, being like, by the way, like, I think Paige broke up with me, like, I don't know, I guess I was still processing it,' he admitted.
Andy mentioned that Paige said she respected Craig's wishes to have the press tour without any mention of the break-up, but Craig insisted, 'I never asked her that.'
'We facetimed and I didn't think it was real until, I mean, we had been together for three years, Andy. About a week prior or two weeks prior, she asked me to plan us a trip to Europe for New Year's. She also talked about our wedding in her mom's kitchen. She made me promise we would never break up weekly,' he said.
Conover went on WWHL a week after the break-up call, adding she was still saying that she missed him, but, 'after the show is when I went there and we got to talk in person, and that's when it was like, official.'
Craig's Southern Charm co-star Austen Kroll was on a recent WWHL episode and seemingly confirmed that Paige already has a new man, though she has denied it
When asked what he thought, Craig said, ' I think it's fair for me to say it's none of my business what she does anymore. I wasn't a part of any of the rumors. Like, I haven't said a word. Like my favorite person in the universe basically became a lesson all of a sudden. And how I've been grieving, I think, has been good. Like I haven't said a word,' he said, before detailing how the breakup went down
'She called me after Thanksgiving. I was in Toronto about to do a show and was like, I think we have to break up. And then we were like, well, we'll talk about it. And then that was after Thanksgiving. And then I stayed at the apartment that week, but she wasn't there, but we were still facetiming and she said, I miss you and stuff,' he said
Andy mentioned that Paige said she respected Craig's wishes to have the press tour without any mention of the break-up, but Craig insisted, 'I never asked her that'
He added, 'She was like, look, I love you, but I love myself more. And I have to go do this and find myself
He added, 'She was like, look, I love you, but I love myself more. And I have to go do this and find myself.
When Paige added on her podcast that she never cheated physically or emotionally, Andy asked Craig about it but he only said, 'I don't want to be involved.'
When Andy insisted he was, Craig said, 'No I'm not. I got broken up with. I'm the ex-boyfriend. Now moving on with my life. Ok I'm not going to get sucked into the mud with them. Like her cast. Like commenting on how I'm grieving and that I'm sorry that I'm not reading Reddit every day and getting on there and defending her. I never said you cheated, so I'm not a part of this.'
Andy mentioned that Amanda Batula said Craig should have defended Paige against cheating rumors 'but instead sent the dogs after her,' as Craig insisted, 'Because Paige lied on her podcast and said the breakup was mutual.
'I didn't tell her what to say. I got a text and she said, I'm announcing it on my podcast. And then she said it was mutual, which it wasn't. I didn't know about it. She called me and told me,' he said.
He added, 'So I've been sitting in it listening to people be like, love isn't enough. Guess what? Love is enough. And I hate that I'm being drug into that. If two people love each other, you'll make it work. And for all the long distance people watching, like we didn't want different things, she just wanted other people, and that's fine. She didn't want those things with me anymore. And like, I'm not mad at her for that, but like, I don't like this love isn't enough thing because, like, you'll make it work.'
Paige claimed that 'no one was blindsided' by the breakup but Craig said, 'We were planning our future together. I had no way of. We never fought like we like. I was moving to New York.'
