Christina Haack tells Tarek El Moussa their kids asked her to leave Josh Hall

As “The Flip Off” sets to premiere Jan. 29 on HGTV, a new teaser has been shared with the public.

The show will star real estate gurus Christina Haack, her ex-husband Tarek El Moussa and his wife Heather Rae El Moussa as they “battle it out” to see who can flip a house best.

However, while the core of the show is competition, the latest teaser reveals it will be an emotional ride.

Shortly before the show began filming, Haack split from her third husband Josh Hall in July. The former couple filed for divorce the same month.

In the teaser shared by Entertainment Tonight, Haack is seen breaking down after telling Tarek El Moussa about the separation.

“We had a blow up,” Haack says in the clips, “middle fingers in my face.”

“Things with Josh have been bad for a long time,” she told Tarek El Moussa. “The kids literally asked me to leave. They told me he’s not nice to me.”

Haack said it’s felt like she was “in a tornado all the time and I just can’t get out of it.”

The mom of three then began to cry, saying that “everything since 2016 has been so hard and so horrible,” as Tarek El Moussa shook his head in agreement. “It’s really taken a really bad toll on me.”

“I’m really sorry for (expletive) talking you,” Haack told her ex-husband. “I really am, but I just want you to know that.”

Tarek El Moussa responded saying that he “understands that feeling of being a little bit lost.”

As he continued, he also got emotional. “And I acknowledge that I’m a big part, if not the entire part of all of this.”

Tarek El Moussa and Haack separated in 2016 after 7 years of marriage and two kids. Their divorce was finalized in 2016.

In February, Tarek El Moussa opened up about the incident that led to the end of their marriage.

Following a heated argument between them, Tarek El Moussa hopped their backyard fence and took off with a gun in his possession. In an interview with People, Tarek El Moussa said he was scouting various trails in their then-new neighborhood and had the gun for protection from wildlife.

However, fearing for his safety, Haack called the police.

“For the next several hours, I sat on a cooler on my driveway, handcuffed,” he revealed in his book, “Flip Your Life: How to Find Opportunity in Distress — in Real Estate, Business and Life.”

“That was the very last time we were together as a family: with Christina walking down the driveway, crying, and me sitting there in handcuffs, asking myself, What in the world is going on?”

Tarek El Moussa later remarried in 2021.

This story was originally published December 12, 2024 at 1:25 PM.