“I asked you straight up, Craig. You said there was nothing going on.”
“I asked you straight up, Craig. You said there was nothing going on.”In a development that’s set Bravo fandom ablaze, newly leaked text messages appear to confirm long-held suspicions that Kristin Cavallari confronted Craig Conover in 2021 about his then-budding relationship with Paige DeSorbo — and that he flat-out denied any romantic involvement at the time.
The messages, reportedly exchanged in early October 2021, just weeks before Craig and Paige were publicly linked for the first time in New York City, show a visibly emotional Kristin trying to get clarity from the Southern Charm star after rumors began to swirl.
“Just be honest with me,” Kristin allegedly wrote. “I’m hearing things about you and Paige. Are you seeing her?”
Craig’s reply, terse and defensive, read: “We’re just friends. Nothing’s going on. You know I’d tell you if there was.”
But now, nearly three years later, those words ring hollow — especially in light of the recent Honestly Cavallari podcast tour stop in Boston, where Kristin publicly accused Craig of lying to her about Paige and called their brief, under-the-radar fling a “wake-up call.”
According to a source close to Cavallari, the reality star had already started to feel something was off with Craig weeks before that now-famous paparazzi shot of him and Paige strolling together in NYC surfaced.
“She had an instinct. She asked him directly. He denied it. Then boom — the photos dropped. She felt humiliated,” the insider revealed. “She wasn’t expecting a full-blown relationship, but she deserved honesty.”
At the time, Craig was enjoying a reputation transformation — from Southern frat boy to fan-favorite crossover star — and his budding romance with Summer House's Paige DeSorbo only accelerated his Bravo trajectory. Meanwhile, Kristin was fresh off her divorce from Jay Cutler and dipping her toes cautiously into a few flirty connections, Craig included.
The newly leaked messages, first published by Bravo fan account @RealityDropouts, include a particularly revealing exchange where Kristin appears to double down after seeing the NYC photos.
“There’s literally a photo of you holding her hand in SoHo. You don’t do that with just ‘friends,’” she wrote.
Craig, in return, wrote: “I didn’t plan that. It got out faster than we expected. I just didn’t want to hurt you.”
Fans have been quick to dissect the messages, which some say reveal a deeper pattern in Craig’s behavior — namely, telling different truths to different women depending on the optics.
“This confirms what Kristin hinted at for years,” one fan posted. “She wasn’t being dramatic — she was being played.”
The fallout has been swift. Though Craig has yet to address the leak directly, insiders say the Southern Charm star is “furious” behind the scenes and believes the messages were “taken out of context.” Paige DeSorbo, for her part, has remained silent — a move some interpret as tactical detachment, while others see it as quiet confirmation.
Back on the podcast stage, Kristin didn’t hold back: “I remember asking you, and you said, ‘No, nothing’s going on.’ But there was. There was something. Maybe it wasn’t serious yet, but it was real enough that I needed to know.”
Now, with receipts in hand and the past cracking wide open, Kristin Cavallari has done what she once chose not to: tell her side of the story — unfiltered, unscripted, and backed by the texts he hoped no one would ever see.
