Longtime HGTV host Christina Haack is opening up about her failed third marriage to realtor Josh Corridor, which was documented all through the primary season of her renovation competitors collection, Flip Off.
Haack and Corridor have been married for just below three years, from October 2021 to July 2024, shortly after her divorce from British tv presenter Ant Antstead was finalized. The 42-year-old was additionally married to her Flip or Flop co-host Tarek El Moussa from 2009 by way of 2018.
Now, Haack says she’s realized is to not rush into issues.
“To be trustworthy, the primary time he proposed, I stated no and he threw the ring within the pool. There are purple flags there, and I’m going accountable myself for many of those,” she advised Individuals in an interview posted to Instagram. “I felt a whole lot of strain. It’s, you already know, a whirlwind. On the time, that felt regular to me, and that has been my previous.”
Haack clarified that whereas she was used to “fast courting,” the connection didn’t really feel proper even then as a result of he would make her really feel dangerous about issues.
“And it’s fixed, it was continuously like that in our relationship,” she defined. “This entire factor makes me as a mother and a lady really feel dangerous, to be trustworthy, and really feel a bit unusual that I, for no matter motive, allowed that to go on so lengthy.”
“In fact, at the start of the connection, you already know, issues are, issues are nice, however I’ve realized much more about purple flags and dashing into issues, and a ton about dashing into issues,” Haack continued. “And yeah, issues are nice for the primary 12 months, however after that, it steadily was not so nice.”
She and Corridor appeared in only one episode of Flip Off collectively. The premise of the collection was for the couple to face off in house renovations in opposition to Tarek and his spouse, Heather Rae El Moussa. Nevertheless as an alternative, their breakup was documented within the collection premiere. Haack stated {that a} massive issue of their break up was that it wasn’t simple for Corridor to all of the sudden discover himself within the highlight.
“I imply, even me being on this, it may be unusual at instances, and also you’re in comparison with different individuals and abruptly you’re, you’re on TV otherwise you’re not on TV,” she stated. “And it’s simply, I believe it was an excessive amount of for him and it weighed on him.”
Nevertheless, regardless of their acrimonious, public divorce, Haack maintains that she hopes Corridor is joyful and has no unwell will in opposition to him. When their divorce was finalized again in August, it was revealed that Haack had agreed to pay Corridor $300,000 from the sale of their Nashville property, along with $40,000 in authorized charges.
“I used to be upset at the start and I used to be speaking about it as a result of I used to be actually shocked about what he was going after financially,” she stated, including that he at all times promised her that he would by no means do this. “So I used to be very offended and I hoped that by speaking about it and placing it on the market, that he would again down and be embarrassed as a person—It didn’t work.”
“However now I’ve no need to go pop off on him, to go discuss him,” she added. “I used to be in a really upset state on the time, however now every part’s very calm and I, yeah, there’s, there’s no dangerous needs there.”
Haack is at present courting her boyfriend of about one 12 months, CEO Chris Larocca. Although, having realized from her errors, she’s taking this relationship gradual.
“We’re not even discussing getting married. We’re not discussing getting engaged,” she advised Individuals. “We’re taking issues gradual. I promise. We’re not having youngsters collectively. We’re not in a rush. We don’t have a timeline. He’s an excellent busy man. He has his personal life, his personal mates, his personal profession, and he’s pragmatic.”