When Tarek El Moussa and his then-wife Christina debuted their house-flipping actuality present Flip or Flop on HGTV in 2013, there’s no means they might have predicted that the present about their enterprise would end in some intensely private moments enjoying out within the public eye. The couple weathered on-set arguments, a divorce, new relationships and well being points earlier than the sequence got here to an finish in 2022 after 10 seasons. Now, as El Moussa and his spouse Heather Rae are having fun with life with a brand new child, Tarek acknowledged the struggles he’s been by means of to get to the place he’s now, revealing that he hit “all-time low” earlier than his divorce.
Tarek El Moussa opened as much as Fox Information Digital about his life being “hell” for the primary few years of Flip or Flop. Shortly after the present premiered, a viewer observed a lump on El Moussa’s throat that turned out to be thyroid most cancers. He was additionally recognized with testicular most cancers, and suffered an accident that required again surgical procedure. Amidst every part, there have been issues in his marriage to now-Christina Corridor. El Moussa recalled:
You recognize, hitting all-time low in 2016, when my ex-wife determined that she needed to finish issues, you understand, that is that is once I needed to dig deep and actually work out who I used to be and who I needed to be and the place I needed to go and the way I used to be going to get there. So, I did lots of work on myself to get to the place I’m at this time.
The couple made headlines in Might 2016, after a scary altercation went down through which police had been referred to as to their home searching for a “presumably suicidal male with a gun,” after Tarek El Moussa grabbed a gun and went out to a mountaineering path behind their home. They later referred to as it a “misunderstanding,” with El Moussa saying he had no intention of injuring himself. In January of the next 12 months, he formally filed for divorce.
On the time, he blamed inadequate communication as one of many causes for the divorce, as their lives had modified so drastically so rapidly, with the present and his well being points. He advised Fox Information Digital simply how unhealthy issues had develop into, saying:
You recognize, after the cancers, I had that horrible accident on my again and I misplaced like 60 kilos, and I used to be on all these opiates. I used to be, you understand, I used to be not doing effectively. That is what individuals do not perceive – you understand, from 2013 to 2016, it was hell. You recognize, I fought two cancers, I fought again surgical procedure. I used to be coping with all these hormone issues. And truthfully, I misplaced my means. I misplaced who I used to be. After I appeared within the mirror, I did not know who I used to be anymore.
Tarek El Moussa appears to be in a a lot better place at this time, as he and Promoting Sundown star Heather Rae El Moussa welcomed child Tristan in January (with Christina Corridor sending her congratulations), and the three of them work exhausting to co-parent Tarek and Christina’s two youngsters.
They’re additionally nonetheless busy on the house renovation entrance, even after the finish of Flip or Flop. The brand new mother and father are set to star in The Flipping El Moussas, which premieres at 8 p.m. ET Thursday, March 2, on HGTV, whereas Christina Corridor simply wrapped the primary season of Christina within the Nation with the community. Try our 2023 TV schedule to see what different premieres are coming quickly.
