In a scene from the upcoming sequence premiere of The Flip Off — out Jan. 29 — the HGTV star turns to ex-husband Tarek El Moussa for a tearful heart-to-heart, by which she reveals that her third marriage to Josh Corridor, has come to an finish.

Tarek stops by Christina’s Newport Seaside, California residence, and instantly senses that one thing is up.

“I do know that look. What is going on on? You good?” he asks within the one-minute sneak peek at their newest TV sequence. “No … Josh and I formally cut up up,” Christina replies.

Josh filed for divorce from Christina in July 2024 after practically three years of marriage, and the pair have since been concerned in a contentious authorized battle ever since. The Tennessee-based actual property skilled was initially set to co-star together with his then-wife in The Flip Off when HGTV introduced it earlier this 12 months, however shortly after the cut up, Christina returned to filming with out him.

Within the clip, Christina recounts the ultimate straw to Tarek, telling her ex, “We had a blow up… center fingers in my face,” including, “Issues with Josh have been unhealthy for a very long time.”

So unhealthy even, that Christina and Tarek’s two kids, Taylor, 14, and Brayden, 9, allegedly requested their mother to depart Corridor.

“They informed me he isn’t good to me. Why would I stick round?” Christina says.

Christina, who additionally shares son Hudson, 5, with ex, Ant Anstead, continues, “I really feel like I am in a twister on a regular basis and I simply can’t get out of it.”

“Every thing since like 2016 has been so laborious and so horrible,” she says by means of tears, referring to the 12 months she and Tarek cut up, after he fled their household residence with a gun and later, entered rehab for habit. “It is actually taken a extremely unhealthy toll on me.”

Whereas they went on to divorce, the exes have continued seem collectively on their present Flip or Flop for a number of seasons after their cut up, and regardless of just a few bumps within the street, have emerged on amicable co-parents.

Seemingly calling up their very own historical past, Christina tells Tarek within the clip, “I am actually sorry for s–t too. I actually am. I simply need you to know.”

Getting a bit emotional himself, Tarek tells her. “I perceive that feeling of being a little bit bit misplaced. And I acknowledge that I’m an enormous half, if not your complete half, of all of this.”

The emotional second marks the primary time both Christina or Tarek have addressed their cut up so candidly on display.

Whereas Christina is now single following her cut up from Corridor, Tarek has discovered love once more with Heather Rae, whom he married in 2021. They welcomed son Tristan in February 2023.

As for Josh’s future on The Flip Off, which was initially pegged as a home flipping “showdown” by which Christina and Tarek deliberate to compete alongside their new spouses, Christina informed Leisure Tonight final month that splitting up, nonetheless, made the present “to be trustworthy, a lot simpler and so a lot better in each manner.”

“This present would’ve been laborious to movie,” she added.

It’s a protected area for pleasant exes, nonetheless, with Anstead set to look as a visitor decide on the sequence, in addition to Heather’s former Promoting Sundown co-star Amanza Smith, Actual Housewives of Orange County’s Heather Dubrow, and Tarek and Christina’s mothers.

“I by no means thought I would be doing this,” Christina stated within the present’s first teaser trailer. Added Tarek, “I’ll do no matter it takes to win.” Christina, Tarek, Heather, and sometimes Josh, have appeared in various campy promos for the present since, however has since been faraway from new promos and trailers for the sequence.

The Flip Off premieres Jan. 29, at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT with a two-hour episode.