Though Christina Haack and her first husband, Tarek El-Moussa, have obviously had their issues, they now appear to have a great co-parenting relationship. As they teamed up for The Flip Off, it became clear that the exes are now quite friendly with each other. During a recent interview with People, Christina also made it sound like Tarek played an important role in her life when she was dealing with challenges in her relationship with her third ex-husband, Josh Hall.
Christina shared more details about her split from Josh.
During a conversation with Tarek that was shown on The Flip Off, Christina said she and Josh had some sort of big fight prior to their split. However, the details of the fight remained unclear until Christina’s recent interview with People. She told the publication that it all started when she and her kids went to a friend’s house on July 4, 2024 — without Josh.
Though Christina and her kids “had a great weekend,” Josh “wasn’t too happy,” and they ended up having a huge fight about it afterwards.
Tarek seemed extremely supportive of Christina.
After the argument, Christina decided to call Tarek. When she described the situation to him, he urged her to leave Josh. “I said, ‘I’m worried right now. I feel uncomfortable.’ And he said, ‘Leave,'” she recalled. And in the aftermath of the split, Tarek did what he could to make things easier for Christina. He was the one who promptly took action to get Josh off The Flip Off.
“Tarek told our attorney and told the network for me that Josh would no longer be a part of the show,” she told People. “They said ‘No problem. That’s fine.’ They just said, ‘We need Christina to have a scene where she tells you, Tarek, that Josh is no longer going to be a part of the show.'”
This is how the vulnerable conversation between them came to be.
Even prior to the start of the show, HGTV fans caught a glimpse of what happened between Christina and Josh. In a clip that was shared as a sneak peek, Christina told Tarek that she and Josh “had a blow up… middle fingers in my face.” During that conversation, she also revealed that her kids urged her to leave Josh.
But Christina and Tarek didn’t stop at talking about Josh. They also had a vulnerable conversation about their relationship with each other. Christina told People how the conversation evolved into that: “[The producers] didn’t tell me anything. They just said, ‘Tarek’s coming over. We want you to tell him that you and Josh broke up.’ But for me, [the scene] was never really about Josh. It was more about me and Tarek and everything that’s happened since then.”
At that time, Christina said her life has been ‘horrible’ since their 2016 split.
Tarek said, “I understand that feeling of being a little bit lost. And I acknowledge that I’m a big part, if not the entire part, of all of this.” But Christina complimented her ex, telling him that he’s changed a lot since their divorce. “You’re a great dad. I’m really proud of you,” she said. “You’ve come a really long way. I can see it, you know. You’re so much calmer, you’re so much wiser, for real.”
