Paige DeSorbo has disclosed the details of what happened at Amanda Batula and Kyle Cooke’s wedding, leading to her then-boyfriend Craig Conover being asked to leave the premises.
During the final part of the Season 9 reunion of the reality show Summer House, DeSorbo confirmed the rumors that Conover was not allowed back to the backyard of Batula’s parents’ house, the venue for their wedding in 2021.
DeSorbo explained, “The next morning, I realized he needed to apologize to Mr. and Mrs. Batula. However, he adamantly refused,” DeSorbo, who ended her three-year relationship with the Southern Charm star in November 2024, shared with host Andy Cohen, expressing her embarrassment over the incident.
She continued, “He was belligerently drunk. He was causing a scene. He was kicking tables. He was yelling at people. He was going inside the house,” ignoring the Batulas’ request for their guests to stay outside.
According to Batula, DeSorbo was the one who texted her parents to apologize for Conover’s behavior the next day.
“He acted like an entitled brat at the wedding and he was an embarrassment,” DeSorbo added.
The gossip surrounding the ordeal has been circulating in the rumor mill for years. DeSorbo previously accused Lindsay Hubbard of leaking the story to the blogs, though she later learned that it was actually Danielle Olivera.
While Conover has admitted to drinking too much that night, he has also insisted that the rumors that he was kicked out of the wedding were “made up.”
“It was a filmed event. I think if I was kicked out, we would’ve seen it on TV,” he told Us Weekly in a June 2024 interview. “But, to be fair, I was asked to not come back in, in case I wanted to decide to come back in.”
DeSorbo, for her part, shared whether there were other instances where she had to lie to protect her ex-boyfriend, who has since cut back on his drinking.
“Honestly, I’m so uncomfortable because I’ve never had to lie in my entire life until I started dating him and it was more like, I had to be like, ‘Oh, he’s not that drunk.’ Or, ‘Oh, we just wanted to go home early,’” she said at the reunion. “It’s little situations that he would put me in that I would have to defuse. It’s uncomfortable and it gets very overwhelming and tiring.”
Summer House Season 9 is currently streaming on Peacock.
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