It’s over for Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover.
DeSorbo, 32, confirmed that the pair have split after three years of dating during her and Hannah Berner’s “Giggly Squad” podcast on Monday, noting they “have decided to no longer be together.”
“It’s weird, it’s very weird. I wasn’t expecting this,” she said. “Obviously, when we first started dating, you don’t think, ‘Oh, what will happen? Will we get married, will we not?’ You’re just kind of like in this relationship.”
“Not to sound traditional and old-fashioned, this is not a situation where I have, like, a 50-part series of ‘Who the f–k was I dating?’” the “Summer House” star joked. “Could not be more opposite of that.”
“I have so much love and respect for Craig. I think he is one of the best people I have ever met in my entire life. I will remain the biggest fan of him and want the best for him and he truly will get the best because he is the best. But with that said, I think it was just the right decision for both of us moving forward in our lives and the direction in our lives that we didn’t force.”
“I love him, I think he loves me,” she continued. “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.”
DeSorbo described the split from Conover, 35, as a “very sad thing.”
“As you get older, I mean, I started dating Craig when I was 29 and I’m 32 now. And your 30s, for women, I feel like are very transformative. And you change a lot and you grow a lot. Him as well,” she explained to Berner, 33. “I know I said I would never cry on the internet but like, it’s OK if I cry on the pod. I feel like that’s OK.”
Additionally, DeSorbo put to rest any speculation that Bravo had control over when she announced their split.
“In terms of people saying rumors like, ‘Oh, Paige was told to wait until Southern Charm came out’ or like ‘Summer House came out’ — no one can tell me what to do,” DeSorbo said. “Like, the network has power, but they don’t have that much power. So, that was not a real thing. Rumors of us breaking up months ago again, also, not a real thing.”
The news comes amid weeks of social media rumors that the pair got engaged over the holidays.
Conover has yet to comment on the breakup. The pair, however, have been outspoken through the years about split speculation.
“I think there was so much pressure from the outside world. I love what we have now. My home base is Charleston and hers is New York, but if it was a Venn diagram, we cross over. We’re always together, we’re just in one place and the other,” he previously told People. “I think I’ve settled into a more sustainable flow of this is what works for us and let’s just enjoy it instead of rushing into the next step.”
