The Actuality TV curse has struck once more, breaking apart Southern Attraction couple Kathryn Dennis and Chleb Ravenell. In a brand new interview, Chleb is revealing that filming the present “sped up” their breakup and was the catalyst for the couple’s cut up.
Talking with US Weekly, Chleb admitted that issues between him and Kathryn began out effectively, however he went in “blind” and the present solely magnified the couple’s issues.
“It began off good,” the Southern Attraction beginner instructed the outlet. “[But] she wasn’t telling me what she was going via. She was telling me she was going via like courtroom instances and stuff the place her children and custody battles [were involved]. She wasn’t telling me about her relationships [with the cast.]”
“I used to be simply coming in blind serving to her. After which it form of simply all fell on me. And once I would specific my emotions to her, [her reaction] was extra like, ‘Oh, you’re a grown-ass man. It’s best to be capable to deal with it,’” Chleb claimed.
Chleb had excessive hopes that the present would carry him and Kathryn nearer, however he added that he was naïve since he had by no means been on a actuality present earlier than. He mentioned that Kathryn warned him about sharing their relationship on the present and that it might greater than possible tank the connection, however Chleb admitted that he didn’t pay attention.
“I used to be like, perhaps this may carry us collectively,” Chleb instructed Us. “As a result of I’ve by no means been on a present earlier than. And he or she’s telling me, ‘It’s gonna break us up.’ I used to be like, ‘Nah, nah, we’re gonna develop nearer.’ [But] it broke us aside.”
Many speculated that the breakup needed to do with all of the drama between Kathryn and her ex, Thomas Ravenel, Kathryn’s former Southern Attraction co-star and the daddy of her youngsters. Nevertheless, Chleb mentioned that all of it boiled right down to him feeling “underappreciated,” and each time they filmed collectively, it might simply be an argument, and it wasn’t wholesome.
“I didn’t really feel like no matter I needed to do mattered an excessive amount of to her [Kathryn] due to what all she was going via,” the Southern Attraction star mentioned. “She didn’t have the top area to actually take into consideration what the hell I used to be going via, and I can’t actually fault her for that, however I imply … it simply got here to a degree the place we simply needed to simply break it off.”
Chleb continued by saying, “Each time we might movie, it’d simply be an argument. … It was getting petty. So, we had been similar to, ‘You understand what? We should always simply break this off.”
Nevertheless, Chleb says he solely needs one of the best for Kathryn and her future as he’ll at all times have love for her.
“It’s for one of the best, however I’m unhappy as a result of I’ve been via so much along with her. So, I at all times want her one of the best. I’m at all times gonna love her, simply from a distance,” he mentioned, including he hopes that she “and the youngsters do effectively.”
As for displaying any of his future relationships on actuality tv, Chleb has just one situation: that the 2 are married. He revealed that he believes producers try to manipulate {couples} into relationship turmoil for storylines, however he thinks they wouldn’t contact a pair’s marriage.
“I might, if I used to be married,” he mentioned. “I really feel like [with] actuality reveals and the producers, when you’re not married, then any little factor they’ll attempt to [break you up]. However when you’re married then … you will have such a robust bond. I don’t assume the producers or any of that will truly come after that.”
As for Kathryn, she has seemingly already moved on after new photographs not too long ago surfaced of her with an unknown thriller man.
Season eight of Southern Attraction presently airs on Thursday nights at 9 p.m. EST on Bravo.
