• Tarek El Moussa lived in a halfway house after his divorce from Christina Hall
• He expressed his personal struggles after the divorce with his costar on the The Jeff Fenster Show
• Since then, he has turned his life around and married Heather Rae El Moussa in 2021 and become a father again to a son named Tristan.
Here is what happened:
Tarek El Moussa’s life was turned upside down when he divorced Christina Hall. The HGTV host got candid about the personal struggles he faced in the aftermath of his 2016 breakup with his Flip or Flop costar, who he shares daughter Taylor, 13, and son Brayden, 8, with. “When my ex left me, I went to some soul-searching places,” he revealed on the Jan. 8 episode of The Jeff Fenster Show podcast. “I actually lived in a halfway house. This is my first time sharing that.” Tarek said he voluntarily checked into the institution because he “didn’t know where to go” and “needed 24-hour care.” According to Tarek, it was pretty bad because he had lost everything, feeling like it happened overnight. He also reflected that there was a “dark cloud” over him the year before calling it quits with Christina, adding, “I wasn’t the best guy, husband, father, son, friend. I just wasn’t the best human.”
After filing for divorce in 2017, Tarek finalized his legal separation from Christina the following year. Since then, he has turned his life around and found love with Selling Sunset’s Heather Rae El Moussa, who he married in 2021 after more than two years of dating. The couple are parents to 11-month-old son Tristan. Christina, on the other hand, welcomed son Hudson with her second husband Ant Anstead in 2019. A year after finalizing their divorce in 2021, Christina tied the knot with real estate investor Josh Hall.
Regarding Tarek’s younger child, Heather has said, “My relationship with him is different. I’m not stressed out. I’m not in my 20s. I’m not thinking about work, so I can be calm.” As for Christina, she too has moved on, marrying after her divorce from Tarek. She has continued to co-parent her children from her previous marriage and welcomed son Hudson with Ant Anstead.
