Paige DeSorbo broke down her break up from Craig Conover in the course of the season 9 Summer season Home finale, revealing that her emotions towards him modified after he allegedly refused to publicly clear her title.
“I made the proper choice,” Paige, 32, advised friends Amanda Batula and Lindsay Hubbard on the Wednesday, Might 21, finale, referring to her selection to interrupt up with Craig, 36, after Thanksgiving in November 2024.
Paige advised the women that after rumors surfaced in January that she cheated on Craig earlier than their break up, he didn’t have her again. She claimed that as a substitute of shutting down the rumors, Craig advised her, “I don’t really feel comfy saying something at the moment.”
That alleged response modified every thing for Paige. “After that I used to be like, ‘And, now you’re lifeless to me,’” she confessed.
Three months after the Bravo cameras stopped rolling in summer time 2024, Paige introduced that she and Craig known as it quits after three years collectively. In January, the cameras picked again up and documented her facet of the story.
“What made me really feel like I made the proper choice was two days later, my dad known as me and mentioned I simply wish to let you understand, ‘I really feel like your persona is again,’” Paige recounted on the finale. “[He said], ‘I didn’t notice how totally different you kinda have been. Now I name you and also you’re so pleased. I simply really feel like I obtained my daughter again slightly.’”
Amanda, 33, confessed that she felt that there was “one thing totally different” about Paige over the summer time however she didn’t wish to push it. “I may actually sense one thing was up. … You have been totally different,” Amanda mentioned.

Paige utterly agreed, noting she didn’t notice “how totally different” she was till she was on her “Giggly Squad” podcast tour the previous fall and he or she had a “panic assault.”
Paige defined that after November 2024 rolled round, she and Craig spent Thanksgiving collectively and he or she later had a lightbulb second about their future. “He’s like, ‘Do you ever fantasize about us internet hosting holidays with our youngsters?’” Paige recalled, noting that she initially mentioned sure however later realized that wasn’t true.
She remembered saying, “I don’t assume I do” and declaring it wasn’t “honest” to Craig that she felt that manner. Paige mentioned she advised Craig on the time, “You should have the love of your life, and I really feel like I do too. I can’t faux that we don’t have these points.”
After the dialog, Craig advised Paige he’d be in New York in December and requested to talk in individual, to which she agreed.
“He says to me, ‘I actually want you didn’t do that earlier than you noticed the ring,’” Paige claimed Craig mentioned when he was on the town, however she didn’t imagine him. “Proper when he says that to me in my head, I used to be like, ‘Because of this we’re breaking apart as a result of I don’t know for those who’re mendacity proper now.’”
Whereas Craig alleged that he’d had the ring for “a yr,” Paige advised the women she wasn’t shopping for it. “It doesn’t exist, Lindsay. We’ll by no means see it,” she quipped. (Craig claimed on the season 10 Southern Attraction finale and reunion that he did purchase a hoop and deliberate to suggest earlier than Paige broke issues off.)
Wanting again, Paige mentioned she thought she was “very respectful” along with her breakup announcement. Nonetheless, when rumors began to floor that Paige cheated on Craig and he didn’t shut them down, she realized how one-sided their dynamic was.
“As a girlfriend I defended the f*** out of you in public,” Paige mentioned of her ride-or-die model assist for Craig. “I’ve fought individuals for you. I’ve lied by means of my f***ing enamel for you.”
Regardless of being upset with the ending, Paige mentioned she’s realized you “have to come back to phrases” with the truth that life is “not what you imagined” and that doesn’t imply it’s “higher or worse.” She concluded, “I believe [our lives are] truly manner higher.”
Summer season Home season 9 reunion begins on Bravo Wednesday, Might 28, at 9 p.m. ET.