'Southern Appeal' star Chleb Ravenell spoke EXCLUSIVELY with HL about his breakup with Kathryn Dennis, whether or not or not they're on talking phrases, and his present relationship standing.
Kathryn Dennis and Chleb Ravenell known as it quits throughout the July 8 episode of Southern Appeal. The couple’s recurring miscommunication led to their eventual breakup. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Chleb in regards to the state of his relationship with Kathryn right this moment.
“I’ll be trustworthy with you, we don’t actually discuss proper now,” Chleb informed HollywoodLife. “I wouldn’t say we ended on actually dangerous phrases, however we simply went our separate methods. Proper now, I simply hope she discovered from our relationship, and she will be able to deliver the nice from our relationship into her subsequent relationship. I hope I can do the identical. I imply, that’s actually the one factor I can actually say proper now.”
Throughout their breakup, Kathryn informed Chleb that she felt he was “emotionally unavailable” all through their relationship. Chleb doesn’t agree with Kathryn’s evaluation of him.
“I wouldn’t say I used to be emotionally unavailable. I simply wasn’t emotionally the way in which she needed me to be,” Chleb defined. “I performed sports activities all my life. I discovered by teaching, so once I would inform her one thing that she was doing, I might inform her in a method that a coach would inform me. I might simply give it to her direct like, ‘Hey, that is what’s occurring. It is advisable to change this.’ However the way in which I used to be giving that data out, she wasn’t used to that. She would push again and it might be an issue. She didn’t wish to hear it. I feel that was our miscommunication principally all through our entire relationship. We simply form of grew up otherwise and had completely different backgrounds.”
Nonetheless, Chleb burdened that he and Kathryn did “have an excellent relationship. We did. I imply, what you see on display is perhaps a bit of bit completely different, however we did have an excellent relationship for really a very long time.
Their communication points have been introduced up throughout their breakup. Chleb admitted to Kathryn throughout the July 8 episode that he felt like she didn’t “care” about his emotions. “She had loads occurring. She had youngsters, the custody battle, Thomas [Ravenel], her buddies, all that,” Chleb informed HollywoodLife. “She had loads occurring in her thoughts to the purpose the place I might simply form of go beneath the cracks, you recognize? I used to be spending loads of time making an attempt to make her completely happy, making an attempt to cheer her as much as the purpose the place I wasn’t actually getting something again. I simply needed to deal with my stuff by myself.”
Chleb additionally identified that he by no means knew the best way to strategy his relationship with Kathryn’s youngsters, Kensie and Saint, whom she shares with ex Thomas Ravenel. Kathryn and Thomas have been wrapped up in a custody battle for years.
“I didn’t wish to become involved with that as a result of there’s loads of courtroom, and there’s loads of stuff with that,” Chleb mentioned. “And me, being an African American, I’m making an attempt to steer clear of courtroom. When she did have the youngsters, I labored. However once I didn’t work and the youngsters have been there, I felt like I wasn’t capable of be like their stepfather. I wasn’t capable of like self-discipline them. I wasn’t capable of train them issues. There have been a bunch of guidelines that I needed to observe. I felt like I used to be simply form of watching them, and she or he form of misinterpret that and tried to say, ‘You’re not concerned with the youngsters.’ However it’s like, I can’t be concerned with the youngsters.”
Chleb isn't at present relationship for the time being. Nonetheless, he “discovered loads” from his relationship with Kathryn. “I wish to deliver that into my subsequent relationship, like the best way to be a greater man, the best way to be accountable, and simply taking good care of all the things,” Chleb informed HollywoodLife. “Proper now, no, I’m not relationship. I’m not even ready for the right lady to come back round. I’m making an attempt to work on me. I’m making an attempt to get myself collectively. As a result of once I get myself collectively and I’m in an excellent place and an excellent headspace, then whoever comes alongside, it’s going to be even higher for them. That’s what I’m form of engaged on proper now.” Southern Appeal season 8 airs Thursdays on Bravo.