*On a recent episode of “The Real,” co-host Jeannie Mai spoke about how her divorce from Freddy Harteis has made her regret marrying him.
“Knowing what I know now about who I married, I wouldn’t have married him,” Mai said on Tuesday’s episode of the Emmy-winning daytime talker.
“It’s just crazy. You hear all the time that money can change people. Well, divorce can really change people. It’s just so weird because the one thing that he would always say back then is like, ‘You really, truly don’t know a person until they don’t get what they want.’ But I never thought he would be the one to prove that to me,” Mai, 39, explained as she began to cry.
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Mai and Harteis, who hosts “The Hollywood Hunter,” wed in 2007 and split last fall after 10 years of marriage, PEOPLE reported.
The talk show co-host admitted that she “loved” her ex “all the way past our divorce. I really did.” But her feelings changed following their split when she saw sides of her ex that she claims weren’t present during their marriage.
“But then when somebody shows you who they are, you just are like, ‘Did I know the real you or is this the real you?’ And so it’s just really hard. We’re not talking about a couple years. We’re talking about 10 years,” said Mai.
Mai said on an episode of The Breakfast Club last week that the exes were amicable after they called it quits but they are no longer on good terms.
“It f—— sucks. It’s terrible,” she said. “You wake up with a rock in your heart and you feel like you can’t really make it through the day because it’s just so heavy. Especially when finances get involved. Especially when people change,” she continued.
“One thing he always said, and I love this quote and I really believe it, my ex said, ‘You don’t truly know a person until they don’t get what they want. That’s when they show you who they are,” Mai said.
“You wouldn’t think that the person you were married to and were with for 10 years and taught you the quote would be the best number one example to prove it,” she added.
Harteis is now expecting his first child with girlfriend Linsey Toole. He revealed the news six months after Mai announced their divorce.
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