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Lisa Hochstein spoke candidly about her messy divorce from husband Lenny Hochstein on Monday evening’s episode of Watch What Happens Live.
After the primary set of episodes of The Real Housewives of Miami season 5 detailed the moments leading up to their split, including 56-year-old Lenny’s poor treatment of Lisa and pastime in another woman, Lisa, 40, gave the impression on Andy Cohen‘s late-night talk show, the place she presented an update on their $52 million Star Island mansion, their conversation, and more.
“We’re currently in litigation over that. I’m dwelling in our space with the kids and he’s residing in other places,” Lisa showed on the December 12 episode of WWHL (Lenny’s female friend, Katharina Mazepa, 27, printed he’s living with her earlier this week).
Although Lisa admitted there were purple flags main up to Lenny’s announcement regarding their divorce, she mentioned she used to be “devastated” and “shocked” by means of Lenny’s scorching mic moment of season 5, all through which he spoke of being “unmarried” soon and feeling like he’d be cheating on any individual he didn’t name if he have been to sleep along with his spouse.
“[It] almost confirmed some suspicions I’ve had. I mean, I all the time thought one thing might have been going on however I wasn’t certain,” she explained.
As for a way Lenny answered to being stuck on the recent mic, Lisa stated she doesn’t know as a result of they “don’t truly communicate.”
“Barely, with regards to the youngsters. And that’s it,” she shared.
When a fan known as in to ask if Lisa still believes that Lenny didn’t cheat with the woman he in the past admitted to having an emotional affair with, allegedly Morgan Osman, who sent flowers to Lenny to congratulate him on their split, Lisa stated she doesn’t imagine he did.
“I had access to his [DMs] and they didn’t know… I could see their communique. I noticed his things on an iPad and I didn’t see the rest like that and they both say that not anything happened,” she published.
As for whether or not or now not Lenny’s mom knew he was cheating, Lisa confirmed she had “no thought” and was once no doubt “Team Lisa” — in the beginning.
“She used to be undoubtedly on my aspect to start with and these days, you recognize, it’s her most effective son so she’s more on his facet,” she defined.
During the WWHL episode, Lisa was joined by way of her RHOM castmate and friend, Larsa Pippen, who she named as her most supportive co-star.
“They’re all supportive but [Larsa] has come thru in many alternative tactics,” Lisa said. “She has been my primary supporter via this. She’s long gone through one thing very equivalent herself so she’s been a great friend to lean on and given me great recommendation.”
Looking again on the final moments of her marriage to Lenny, Lisa stated she will have to’ve paid more consideration to the purple flags.
“There have been some indicators and I perhaps simply ignored them or didn’t dig too deep into them but needless to say there were signs,” she famous.
As she strikes ahead, Lisa mentioned that while she isn’t precisely dating, she’s “now not useless” both.
“I’m focusing on my youngsters at the moment. [But] I’m having a little amusing here and there,” she mentioned, “[pleading the fifth” when requested if she was once sound asleep with anyone.
As RHOM fans proceed to song into the display, they’ll quickly be told that Lenny informed Lisa of his plans for divorce two days after their “Good Vibes” celebration.
“I believed we were in a excellent position. We were holding fingers and taking footage together. Everything gave the impression pretty and then two days later he was appearing super strange and I requested him, ‘What’s up?’ because I felt one thing was once off. And then he said, ‘We’re getting a divorce. And if you don’t…’ I fail to remember the precise words but, ‘You’re going to get a front row seat to me dating,’” she recalled.
As Lisa revealed all the way through an episode of season five, she was once greatly surprised by the fact that Lenny had taken up figuring out. However, she didn’t essentially assume he was doing it for any person else.
“I in truth concept, maybe I’m naive or whatever, but I assumed that used to be for me,” she admitted. “I used to be like, ‘Wow, he’s in any case taking my advice.’ I’m like, ‘Lenny, you glance great. You glance amazing.’ We were bonding over that. We have been working out together, if truth be told, with the teacher.”
Regarding Lenny’s different season five conduct, including the aggression he confirmed towards her as she tried to name 911 when one of their staffers broke her arm, Lisa mentioned, “Lenny is who he is.”
“He’s always been that manner so I in point of fact didn’t think anything of it but everybody around me saw what was going on,” she shared.
While Lenny definitely didn’t skip a beat when it came to transferring on from his marriage to Lisa, Lisa showed to Andy that he never asked for an open marriage.
“No. He’s very shy and doesn’t… no,” she stated.
Also on WWHL, Lisa addressed Lenny’s dating with filming.
“He was once excited by it in the beginning and I think, I don’t know, I’m just speculating, possibly that scorching mic second, perhaps he concept afterwards, ‘Oh sh-t.’ Maybe he thought about it afterwards and idea, ‘Damn, I feel they might have picked up on that,’” Lisa suspected. “I do not know what was once going on via his thoughts however he was once concerned with filming after which in fact, when he dropped the bomb, no more filming. He didn’t want to be part of it.”
The Real Housewives of Miami season five is recently streaming on Peacock.
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