
Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover. Xavier Collin/Picture Press Company/MEGA
Time has afforded Craig Conover the good thing about hindsight, and now, he can look again on his relationship and breakup with Paige DeSorbo with some perspective.
The Southern Attraction star, 36, appeared on the Tamron Corridor Present on Monday, February 17, the place he mirrored on his current break up.
“I’d’ve ended up dropping myself [in that relationship] as a result of I’d’ve given up the whole lot to stick with her,” he mentioned. “So the blessing is, as we’re a pair months out, I see that now. That’s why your temper modifications all through [a breakup], you must undergo these grieving processes … it’s perspective.”
Conover additionally touched on the general public fallout from the breakup, which included an accusation from DeSorbo, 32, in a brand new Summer season Home teaser that he was texting different girls whereas they had been collectively.
“Any time your character is challenged, particularly issues that you simply’re pleased with, it’s not nice, however that’s the life we reside on tv,” he mentioned. “Like I mentioned, you’ll be able to solely management your self. However I gained’t date somebody until I can see myself marrying them, as a result of there’s two outcomes when you date — you break up otherwise you get married.”
To Conover, it appeared for some time that DeSorbo might truly be The One. They dated for 3 years earlier than DeSorbo confirmed their break up on a December 2024 episode of her “Giggly Squad” podcast.

Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover. Steven Bergman/AFF-USA.COM/MEGA
“I don’t assume you must settle,” Conover continued on Monday. “I don’t assume you must date somebody until you don’t wish to date anybody else. And after I met Paige, she was my One. I had the whole lot that I needed in that relationship.”
Along with the accusation that Conover was texting different girls, which he has denied, rumors have additionally swirled that DeSorbo cheated on him and had already moved on with comic Marcello Hernandez or one other thriller man. Conover pushed again towards that rumor — which DeSorbo has additionally denied — after beforehand dodging the query in a February 6 look on Watch What Occurs Dwell With Andy Cohen, the place he mentioned, “I don’t wish to be concerned.”
“It actually wasn’t ugly or unhealthy and there wasn’t infidelity, on the finish of the day, we completed a lot in three years,” he informed Corridor.
Conover has been candid concerning the breakup over the past two months. He first spoke about it through his Instagram Story on January 7, calling the breakup “very surprising to say the least.”
“I suppose I gotta begin dwelling once more, no matter that appears like,” he famous in a video on the time. “No matter my new regular seems to be like — I’ve to begin. Gratitude will get you thru this, with time comes readability’ – all the recommendation, I’m making an attempt to take heed to.”
“It takes two individuals to be in a relationship and you may’t management different individuals, you’ll be able to solely management the way you react to it,” he continued, reminding followers to “bear in mind to be form to Paige and me and yourselves and all of that good things.”


