Paige DeSorbo Denies Cheating Rumors After Craig Conover Breakup, Clarifies Timeline of What Happened: ‘No One Was Blindsided'

Mar. 15, 2025

Craig Conover and Paige Desorbo attend the Cucculelli Shaheen fashion show - February 2024 New York Fashion Week on February 10, 2024 in New York City.Photo:Udo Salters/Getty

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Paige DeSorbois setting the record straight on her breakup withCraig Conover.

TheSummer Housestar, 32, took a moment on the latest episode of herGiggly Squadpodcast to discuss rumors circulating online that she had cheated on theSouthern Charmstar, 35, and that played a factor in their breakup.

“I never, in the three years that I dated my ex-boyfriend, I never physically cheated on him [or] emotionally cheated on him,” DeSorbo said. “Can you mentally cheat on him? I don’t know, but I didn’t.”

She went on to further clarify the timeline of their breakup on the podcast, noting that she and Conover split over the “Thanksgiving weekend” at the “end of November” — a month before sherevealed the newson herGiggly Squadpodcast.

Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover try some of Panera’s new menu items at a launch event on March 27, 2024 in New York City.Sara Jaye/Getty

Sara Jaye/Getty

“Craig then went on and did press forSouthern Charm, did whatever he needed to do, acting as if we were still together,” she recalled. “And that was fine. I said that he could do that. He was processing in his own way. Christmas came and went.”

However, after he went on a trip and began “presenting himself as single,” she said she texted him and let him know that she wanted to go public with their breakup on theGiggly Squad.She said the text went “unanswered” and she ultimately decided to reveal the truth.

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“And then the narrative just like took a turn really quickly that I had cheated, that I broke up with him like a week [before the podcast] [and] moved on with some new guy,” she said.

She then reiterated: “Let me say this here and now, I did not move on with some new guy. I am single. I don’t have a new boyfriend. I did not cheat on my ex-boyfriend. And it was a full month that we were broken up, and I didn’t say anything.”

Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover in Aspen, Colo., as seen on Instagram.Craig Conover Instagram

In her podcast, she also hinted about the reason behind the split, saying, “When you’re in a relationship, things happen in your relationship. You take inventory of them, you evaluate and then you decide if you wanna go forth with that relationship.”

“And that’s what I did,” she continued. “I decided that I did not want to go forth with that relationship, but no one was blindsided, no one was cheated on. I really took to heart what I said onGiggly Squadwhen I first announced my breakup. It was really hard for me. And I felt like I spoke extremely highly of him.”

“It takes two people to be in a relationship and you can’t control other people, you can only control how you react to it," he said at the time. “Remember to be kind to Paige and me and yourselves and all of that good stuff.”

“I’m still processing everything, which is normal. It’s a three-year relationship, it’s your best friend who you talk to all day everyday, and then they’re just gone. So, you know, one day I’ll be able to talk more on it,” he added, saying elsewhere in his message that he had to “start living again, whatever that looks like.”

source: people.com