Paige DeSorbo is breaking down the timeline of her breakup with ex Craig Conover — and addressing the allegations that she was unfaithful while they were together.
“Let me say this here and now: I did not move on with some new guy. I’m single. I don’t have a new boyfriend. I did not cheat not on my ex-boyfriend,” the Summer House star, 32, stated on the Monday, February 3, episode of her “Giggly Squad” podcast.
DeSorbo explained that in the three years she dated Conover, 35, she “never physically cheated on him” or “emotionally cheated.”
DeSorbo made headlines last month when she was photographed sitting next to a mystery man at an NFL game shortly after announcing her split from Conover. At the time, fans speculated about the man’s identity and his relationship to her following her recent breakup. (DeSorbo announced on the December 30 episode of “Giggly Squad” that she and Conover had called it quits.)
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On Monday, DeSorbo addressed fans’ negative reaction to the announcement, saying, “‘Oh my God, Paige is just the worst and, like, she blindsided someone before the holidays.’ So let me just say that when I announced my breakup on ‘Giggly Squad,’ I thought really hard about how I was going to say it, the words I was going to use, because of this exact thing.”
“I didn’t want to do a back-and-forth,” she continued, before seemingly throwing subtle shade at her ex for not having her back. “But since no one’s sticking up for me on the other side … perpetuating even more rumors, I will say that Craig and I broke up Thanksgiving weekend. OK? That’s at the end of November.”
According to DeSorbo, Conover then “did press for [his Bravo show] Southern Charm, did whatever he needed to do, acting as if we were still together, and that was fine: I said that he could do that [if] he was processing [the split] in his own way.”
After Christmas, however, “I saw that my ex-boyfriend was on a trip presenting himself as single,” she said Monday. “And I said, ‘Oh, here we go, We’re ready to announce.’ I then texted [him] whilst he was on this trip and said I’m going to say something on ‘Giggly Squad’ and we can both start moving forward. It’s been a full month now. My text went unanswered.”
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Since she went public with the news, DeSorbo noticed that “the narrative just took a turn really quickly: That I had cheated. That I broke up with him, like, a week ago and moved on with some new guy. Let me say this here and now: I did not move on with some new guy. I’m single. I don’t have a new boyfriend. I did not cheat not on my ex-boyfriend. And it was a full month that we were broken up and I didn’t say anything.”
She explained that she did not speak immediately after the breakup because “there are certain things that I think should remain private. And he asked me not to say anything. And so once he goes on a trip and being single, I said, ‘OK, well I can’t deceive the public any longer.’”
On January 30, Conover’s Southern Charm costar Austen Kroll fueled infidelity rumors during his appearance on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live.
“I don’t think that those are rumors,” Kroll, 37, claimed at the time. “I think that they’ve been substantiated, and I think that Craig knows as such. He didn’t know for a minute, but yeah, I think that he’s fully come to terms with that. That’s not a rumor.”
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When Kroll’s remarks were shared via the WWHL Instagram account, DeSorbo was quick to defend herself.
“Ahhh yes a man I haven’t spoken To in 6 months knows exactly what I’m doing,” she wrote in the comments section.
DeSorbo had stated in December that she and Conover were parting on friendly terms.
“I love him, I think he loves me,” she said at the time. “I think we will remain friends. No one did anything. It wasn’t a bad thing. I think we both were just being really mature and saying what we want and what we didn’t want, and I think that’s extremely powerful to be able to voice how you’re feeling in real time and what you want for your future.”
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A source told Us Weekly at the time that Conover was “ready for the next steps and had plans to propose” before he and DeSorbo broke up. The pair were in a long distance relationship with DeSorbo living in New York and Conover living in Charleston.
“He was really pushing for the next steps and wanted to settle down with her,” the insider added. “Paige does not want to move to Charleston, and logistically it was never going to work out long term. Many of their friends are not shocked at all, but everyone is sad for them.”
