‘RHOA’ Alum Cynthia Bailey Reveals The Reason Why She & Mike Hill Split

The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum Cynthia Bailey, 55, dished astir what was the last straw successful her marriage during the Oct. 31 occurrence of the Two T’s In A Pod podcast. She told the hosts, RHOC alum Tamra Judge, 55, and RHOBH alum Teddi Mellencamp, 41, what yet led to her affectional determination to dissolve her narration with Mike Hill, 52. “I felt similar we weren’t friends anymore,” Cynthia said astir the 10.40-minute mark. “I felt similar it was conscionable going toward we’re conscionable not going to beryllium friends if we didn’t pump the brakes.”

Cynthia past went connected to code the information that this is not her archetypal matrimony to end, arsenic she was previously married to Peter Thomas from 2010 to 2017. “This is not my archetypal rodeo. I deliberation relationship conscionable has to beryllium determination successful a marriage,” the TV prima continued. “Like, emotion is great, but relationship has to beryllium there. I genuinely privation to beryllium with my champion friend.” She besides told Teddi that attending this year’s BravoCon “helped” her get done immoderate pugnacious days. “I emotion our fans, I didn’t adjacent deliberation astir it [the split] for 3 days due to the fact that I was excessively damn tired,” the mom-of-one quipped. Cynthia besides confirmed to the 41-year-old that she did consciousness love-bombed successful her narration with Mike. “Yeah, but I similar a bully love-bomb, but I conscionable privation it to continue,” she laughed. “I privation to beryllium love-bombed for the remainder of my life.”

After telling Tamra that she was with the sports writer for astir 4 years, Cynthia talked astir feeling similar a nonaccomplishment erstwhile her archetypal marriage ended. “Going into this unfortunate divorce, I don’t privation to thrust it retired – I’m 55 years old,” she went on. “I merit to beryllium blessed and astatine peace, I privation my antheral to beryllium blessed and to person peace. And if we’re not capable to execute that unneurotic past we shouldn’t beryllium together.” The exemplary besides addressed however she is feeling post-split. “I bash person bully days and atrocious days,” Cynthia told the hosts.

Cynthia Bailey & Mike Hill announced their divided connected Oct. 12. (Rob Latour/Shutterstock)

She besides dished that she and Mike bash not regret their prime to extremity their two-year-long marriage. “I don’t deliberation either 1 of america regret our determination to determination guardant successful the mode we person decided to determination forward,” Cynthia continued. “It’s not last yet. We’re inactive going done the process, truthful we’re inactive technically married. For me, there’s inactive conscionable a batch of respect worldly connected my extremity that I inactive consciousness similar he’s my husband.” In addition, she shared that she removed her wedding ring connected the time they publically announced the separation. “I took my ringing disconnected the time of the announcement but until then, I had it connected each this time. Although, we were going done immoderate things,” she added. “It’s conscionable weird, you guys. It’s conscionable weird.”

Mike and his estranged woman took to Instagram connected Oct. 12 to archer their followers the quality of their divorce, per CNN. “LOVE is simply a beauteous thing,” they wrote successful a since-deleted Instagram selfie. “While we some volition ever person emotion for 1 another, we person decided to spell our separate ways.”

The caption of the erstwhile mates went connected to accidental that neither of them blasted each other. “No 1 is to blasted and we are grateful that we stay bully friends. We volition ever cherish the galore memories we’ve shared unneurotic arsenic hubby and wife.” Mike and Cynthia besides thanked everyone for their support. “Many of you person been connected this travel with america from the precise beginning, and we admit our family, friends and beloved fans for your affirmative enactment arsenic we determination guardant and commencement caller chapters,” the connection concluded. Cynthia and her ex were joined from Oct. 10, 2020, and divided connected Oct. 12, 2022. She is the parent to 1 daughter, Noelle Robinson, 22, who she welcomed successful 1999 with singer Leon Robinson, 60.