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Paige DeSorbo is looking back on how she let a lot of ex Craig Conover’s eyebrow-raising comments slide during their relationship.
“I think obviously when you’re in it you can’t see it the way you see it when you’re out of it or the way your friends see it. And I think I loved him so much that I tolerated too much,” Paige, 32, said during the Wednesday, March 19, episode of the Summer House after show. “Now that I’m out of it and I look back on things, I’m like, ‘Oh wait.’ Anytime I had a career milestone, he found a way to make it about him.’”
Paige was joined by costars Ciara Miller and Amanda Batula for the conversation, who both immediately jumped to defend their friend after the show played a clip from a tense dinner between the now-exes in which Craig wanted to ensure the now-exes still made their relationship a “priority” as Paige’s career continued to take off.
“Honey, we are not concerned about you and prioritizing the relationship,” Ciara said of Craig’s comments. “Like, she does prioritize the relationship.”
Amanda added that Paige had been nothing but supportive to Craig and even took the time to do “meet and greets” at his Sewing Down South store in Charleston. Ciara added that Paige would continuously be a “mother to this man.”
The show then cut to another moment of Paige and Craig’s dinner where he told her that her job couldn’t be a priority when they got married and started a family.
“Anytime it was something for me, my friend’s wedding or a family wedding, he would find a way to make it about him and make me have a bad time. It was just embarrassing,” she recalled. “That’s something I look back on now and I’m like, ‘Oh wow, I was really blinded.’”
Another instance that Paige now views differently is how Craig responded to her panic attacks.
“When I started having panic attacks this fall while I was doing ‘Giggly Squad,’ he just thought it was because I worked too much,” she said.
When Paige was asked if Craig ever thought he contributed to her stress and worries, she quipped, “No, it would never be his fault.”
“After I had my panic attack, he watched a documentary about the band Abba … and he told me to watch this documentary because it was about how tour ruined their marriages and their lives,” she claimed. “I was like ‘I just got a beta blocker prescription but thank you so much for the nightly TV watch.’”
Paige and Craig broke up in December 2024 after three years of dating.
“Craig and I have decided to no longer be together,” she said during an episode of her podcast. “I love him, I think he loves me. I think we will remain friends. No one did anything. It wasn’t a bad thing. I think we both were just being really mature and saying what we want and what we didn’t want, and I think that’s extremely powerful to be able to voice how you’re feeling in real time and what you want for your future.”
The following month, Craig spoke out and hinted that the breakup was out of nowhere for him.
“I figured it’s finally time to check in with everyone. Sorry about the delay, this has all been very, very unexpected to say the least. But I guess I gotta start living again, whatever that looks like. Whatever my new normal looks like — I have to start,” Conover said via his Instagram Story in January. “‘Gratitude will get you through this, with time comes clarity’ – all of the advice, I’m trying to listen to.”
