Christina Haack Tearfully Tells Ex Tarek El Moussa That Their Kids Asked Her to Leave Josh Hall After Fight

In a scene from the upcoming sequence premiere of The Flip Off — out Jan. 29 — the HGTV star turns to ex-husband Tarek El Moussa for a tearful heart-to-heart, through which she reveals that her third marriage to Josh Hall, has come to an finish.

Tarek stops by Christina’s Newport Beach, California residence, and instantly senses that one thing is up.

“I do know that look. What’s occurring? You good?” he asks within the one-minute sneak peek at their newest TV sequence. “No … Josh and I formally break up up,” Christina replies.

Josh filed for divorce from Christina in July 2024 after almost three years of marriage, and the pair have since been concerned in a contentious authorized battle ever since. The Tennessee-based actual property skilled was initially set to co-star together with his then-wife in The Flip Off when HGTV introduced it earlier this 12 months, however shortly after the break up, Christina returned to filming with out him.

In the clip, Christina recounts the ultimate straw to Tarek, telling her ex, “We had a blow up… center fingers in my face,” including, “Things with Josh have been unhealthy for a very long time.”

So unhealthy even, that Christina and Tarek’s two youngsters, Taylor, 14, and Brayden, 9, allegedly requested their mother to go away Hall.

“They instructed me he isn’t good to me. Why would I stick round?” Christina says.

Christina, who additionally shares son Hudson, 5, with ex, Ant Anstead, continues, “I really feel like I’m in a twister on a regular basis and I simply cannot get out of it.”

“Everything since like 2016 has been so onerous and so horrible,” she says by means of tears, referring to the 12 months she and Tarek break up, after he fled their household residence with a gun and later, entered rehab for dependancy. “It’s actually taken a very unhealthy toll on me.”

While they went on to divorce, the exes have continued seem collectively on their present Flip or Flop for a number of seasons after their break up, and regardless of a number of bumps within the street, have emerged on amicable co-parents.

Seemingly calling up their very own historical past, Christina tells Tarek within the clip, “I’m actually sorry for s–t too. I actually am. I simply need you to know.”

Getting a bit emotional himself, Tarek tells her. “I perceive that feeling of being a bit bit misplaced. And I acknowledge that I’m a giant half, if not your entire half, of all of this.”

The emotional second marks the primary time both Christina or Tarek have addressed their break up so candidly on display.

While Christina is now single following her break up from Hall, Tarek has discovered love once more with Heather Rae, whom he married in 2021. They welcomed son Tristan in February 2023.

As for Josh’s future on The Flip Off, which was initially pegged as a home flipping “showdown” through which Christina and Tarek deliberate to compete alongside their new spouses, Christina instructed Entertainment Tonight final month that splitting up, nevertheless, made the present “to be trustworthy, a lot simpler and so significantly better in each method.”

“This present would’ve been onerous to movie,” she added.

It is a secure house for pleasant exes, nevertheless, with Anstead set to seem as a visitor decide on the sequence, in addition to Heather’s former Selling Sunset co-star Amanza Smith, Real Housewives of Orange County’s Heather Dubrow, and Tarek and Christina’s mothers.

“I by no means thought I’d be doing this,” Christina stated within the present’s first teaser trailer. Added Tarek, “I’ll do no matter it takes to win.” Christina, Tarek, Heather, and sometimes Josh, have appeared in numerous campy promos for the present since, however has since been faraway from new promos and trailers for the sequence.

The Flip Off premieres Jan. 29, at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT with a two-hour episode.