Kristin Cavallari Opens Up About Jay Cutler: ‘I Didn’t Want to Be in a Toxic Relationship’
The Hills might not have been real, but its star, Kristin Cavallari, just got very real about her divorce from Jay Cutler.
On the Off the Vine podcast released Tuesday, October 19, Cavallari told host and former Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe about the end of her 10-year relationship to the NFL star.
She said her split from Cutler was the “brightest and saddest” time of her life. Cavallari also revealed she and Cutler tried going on a few dates post-split to see if the relationship could work again.
“There’s been times over the last 18 months where I’m like, ‘Is this the right decision?’” Cavallari said, according to People. “Jay [and] I actually went on a couple of dates, like months and months and months ago. But we did! But then I was like…. It’s not there for me anymore.”
Cavallari added, “I just decided I didn’t want to be in a toxic relationship anymore and I had to break it off. But that’s made it hard and made me sit here and question it for a few months. But then going back and dating him a little bit made me reaffirm it, like, ‘No, I know that I’m doing the right decision.’”
Cavallari also told Bristowe her experience as a child of divorce informed her decision. “I don’t want my kids growing up thinking that this is a good relationship because I got to see my mom [get] remarried and in a good relationship, so I knew what one was,” she said, adding that if she didn’t share children with Cutler, she would “never talk to him again.”
Cavallari previously opened up to Grazia magazine about motherhood and coparenting. “I only have my kids half the time now. I have them every other week,” she said. “…I have just decided that the week I have my kids, I’m mom. I’m not doing anything else. I have a week off where I can go to dinner every night with my friends if I want to. I can work really hard if I need to. I can stay at the office later if I need to. But when I have my kids, I’m not doing anything else.”
Listen to Kristin Cavallari’s full chat with Kaitlyn Bristowe here.
