Tarek El Moussa de HGTV on the incident of the weapon that ended her marriage to Christina Hall
The stars of the flip or the flop separated in 2016 after a fight which ended with the arrival of the police.
In December 2016, Flip or flop stars Tarek El Moussa And Christina Hall Make the headlines by announcing their separation. At the same time, it was also reported that an incident that ended with Hall calling the police on El Moussa had led to their separation. Now El Moussa has revealed more details on the dramatic event of his memoirs, Flip Your Life: how to find opportunities in distress - in real estate, business and life (exit on February 6) and in an interview with People .
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Announcing their split, El Moussa and Hall said In a December 2016 declaration at People "Like many couples, we had challenges in our marriage. We had an unfortunate misunderstanding about six months ago and the police were called here in an abundance of prudence. There was no violence and No accusation has been filed. " AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
The Department of Sheriff of the Comté d'Orange confirmed to the packaging that Police responded to a call Implying a "perhaps suicidal man with a firearm" in May 2016. Hall told the authorities that one of his friends, who was at home, saw El Moussa take a firearm and leave their home without answering to his question about what he was doing. A neighboring witness said that he had seen El Moussa out of the stolen door of his house, jump over a fence and head for the Chino Hills state park.
Hall told the police that El Moussa "had made no threatening statement to him and that he had made no comments on himself or someone else. She also denied that Tarek was ever suicidal ". El Moussa denied that he intended to hurt himself, explaining that he "wanted to save steam" and took the pistol "because of mountain lions and bell snakes in the region" . After talking with the police, El Moussa agreed to voluntarily abandon the weapons he had for 30 days.
Now El Moussa has share more on what happened tonight. In Go back your life (via People ), he writes that he left his home and his home after an argument between them and thought that exercising would help. Soon, he noticed that the police were nearby, including police in a helicopter. "A police officer leaning out of the helicopter pointed me a rifle," writes El Moussa. "The dust swollen around me with the turnover of the blades, and a speaker crackled:" Put your hands in the air! "" A helicopter officer recognized the HGTV star. "I heard an officer screaming:" Tarek? "I cried:" Yes! I'm the guy on TV! What do you do guys? ""
El Moussa says he ended up "sitting on a cooler on [her] allée, handcuffed [for] several hours". He writes: "It was the very last time that we were together with the family: with Christina walking in the aisle, crying, and I sitting there, asking me, what's going on in the world? ""
In an interview People About his book, El Moussa explained that his life later became a "physical and emotional hell". He stayed on his boat, where he drank strongly and made withdrawals from the testosterone he had taken. Finally, friends helped him participate in a rehabilitation program. El Moussa previously said on the podcast Jeff Fenster's show (via People ) that He lived in a "transitional house", Because "he did not trust to be alone," adding ", that is how bad I was."
El Moussa and Hall - who share two children - both spent new relationships in the years that have followed their separation. El Moussa was married to Sunset star Heather Rae Young since 2021; Hall was married to Antstead from 2018 to 2021 and was married to Joshua Hall Since 2022.
"I don't care about Christina," said El Moussa People . "I understand why she did what she did. We had a lot of difficult years through my illness and my mental health difficulties of testosterone."
El Moussa and Hall continued to work together after their divorce - which was finalized in 2018 - with their show Flip or flop broadcast new episodes until 2022. El Moussa said People Their relationship today is "better than it has been since separation".
"We all communicate well, even Heather and Christina. We really focus on children," he added.
Hall previously talked about the incident in a 2017 interview with People And said it was the moment when she went Her marriage to El Moussa was over . "It just made me realize that we are separated was healthier for both of us," she said. "I did not necessarily know that we were not going to come together. It was after looking for therapy and trying to settle the things we both realized that it is for better."