Collaborating in Fox’s Stars on Mars has allowed Tom Schwartz to begin to really feel like himself once more after his divorce from Katie Maloney.
“I wanted a superb dose of levity and journey,” the Vanderpump Guidelines star, 40, completely informed Us Weekly on Friday, June 23, whereas selling the Fox collection. “I suppose from, like, the previous few years, I floundered somewhat bit and I type of really feel like I fell aside, however arising right here, it gave me a recent perspective on all the pieces. It gave me the overview impact.”
Schwartz continued: “It’s like when astronauts go up [into space] and so they look again down on Earth and abruptly they get this, like, cognitive shift. They have a look at the world otherwise. I wanted to only reset my thoughts and I achieved that up there. I actually did. I used to be caught in my very own little unhappy story, kinda wallowing somewhat bit for the previous 12 months. And, [Stars on Mars] snapped me out of it, and I really feel like I’m myself once more.”
Schwartz — who discovered that he “thrives” with journey and levity — had been with Maloney, 36, for greater than a decade earlier than they determined to go their separate methods. The now-exes, who wed in 2016, confirmed in March 2022 that that they had cut up.
“I by no means thought I must make an announcement like this. However I really feel it’s necessary that I’m open about my life with you,” the One thing About Her restaurateur wrote through Instagram on the time. “After 12 years on an journey via our life collectively, Tom and I are ending our marriage. This ending shouldn’t be met with resentment or animosity, no sides to decide on. We’ve deep admiration for each other that may all the time stay and cherish our friendship.”
Tom Schwartz and Katie Maloney. Rob Latour/Shutterstock
Schwartz, for his half, echoed Maloney’s sentiments in his personal social media message on the time. “Properly this sucks,” he wrote. “I’m not the sufferer. Not gonna write too unhappy a track. Absolutely respect Katie’s determination and we’ve had wholesome, productive conversations about it. It can be far sadder if she determined to remain with me while not completely satisfied.”
Schwartz and the Utah native finally finalized their divorce in October 2022 and deliberate to separate custody of their two pets.
The pair additionally agreed that they wouldn’t hook up with anybody of their Vanderpump Guidelines pal group. Schwartz broke that arbitrary rule when he made out with Raquel Leviss in August 2022 at Scheana Shay and Brock Davies’ marriage ceremony. (Leviss, 28, started a months-long affair with Schwartz’s BFF, Tom Sandoval, that very same weekend regardless of his nine-year relationship with now-ex Ariana Madix.) Schwartz’s liplock with the sweetness queen quickly sparked a rift with Maloney.
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“Once we are sharing custody of canines and share mutual finest associates, creating boundaries is important,” she wrote through Instagram in February. “I wasn’t telling him what to do. I used to be saying it could create a poisonous atmosphere and he agreed. We had seen it play out in our pal group 1,000,000 occasions earlier than.”
Schwartz and Maloney have remained at odds amid Scandoval and all through the season 10 reunion, which aired on Bravo in Could. The TomTom cofounder, for his half, is able to convey his newfound Stars on Mars confidence to his every day life shifting ahead.
“I really feel like Tom, what model of Tom is that this? Perhaps let’s say 5.0,” Schwartz quipped on Friday. “I really feel like I’m refined, perhaps somewhat extra stoic. I really feel just a bit bit extra able to tackle no matter life throws at me, you understand? I haven’t been essentially pleased with how I’ve responded to some adversity prior to now 12 months. … It was therapeutic, in a manner, up there.”
New episodes of Stars on Mars air on Fox Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.
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With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
