Christina Haack shed light on the rocky beginnings of her ill-fated romance with Josh Hall as she admitted their road to marriage was far from picture-perfect.
Although the former couple got engaged within six months of meeting in February 2021, the Flip or Flop star, 42, revealed she said no the first time her third husband asked her to marry him.
‘The first time he proposed I said no, and he threw the ring in the pool,’ the mother-of-three claimed. ‘That was probably red flag number one. I don’t think anyone’s ever heard that story before. Sorry. It’s true.’
According to Haack, Hall had decorated the pool terrace of her former home in Dana Point, California for the big moment, but the timing felt wrong.
‘We weren’t getting along super great even then, off and on,’ she explained. ‘When things were good, they were good, but it just felt like I wasn’t quite ready and so I just said, ‘This is not the right time.’ I don’t remember exactly what I said, but he had the patio decorated and he threw it in the pool.’
Hall, 45, however, disputes the story.
Christina Haack shed light on the rocky beginnings of her ill-fated romance with Josh Hall as she admitted their road to marriage was far from picture-perfect
In a statement to People, his representative said bluntly: ‘Josh has no clue what Christina is talking about.’
Her claim comes just weeks after they finalized their divorce in late August after a more than year-long legal battle.
On Labor Day, he took to Instagram to declare he was excited to spend the holiday as ‘legally divorced and a free man.’
‘I’ve always worked hard, kept what’s mine, and declined hand outs, and I’m keeping it that way. Lesson learned: don’t marry someone who needs constant public validation and will use your personal drama for attention,’ he wrote.
The judgment was filed in Orange County, California, on August 26 by Haack, according to court documents obtained by the Daily Mail.
The exes each waived their right to spousal support, which is a bombshell that has been revealed by the filing after the Christina on the Coast star said she had to pay ‘some’ spousal support.
Instead, she paid Josh an equalization payment of $300,000, on May 6, which was part of the equal division of the community estate of their Nashville property and was made to ‘resolve all other issues between the parties.’
Christina also paid $40,000 for Josh’s attorneys’ fees as well as the mediation attorneys’ fees from May. Each party is now responsible for the remaining attorneys’ fees going forward.
Although the HGTV star, 42, and her third husband were engaged within six months of meeting in February 2021, she revealed she said no the first time he asked her to marry him
She previously paid him an unallocated sum of $100,000 in September 2024, which Josh doesn’t have to pay back, according to Us Weekly.
Both parties were awarded their separate properties with Josh keeping his property in Thompson’s Station, Tennessee (known as the Bear Creek property), his 2021 Bentley, three other vehicles and his motorcycle.
Christina, for her part, was awarded a property in Newport Beach, California – which was a community asset – and their former home in Franklin, Tennessee, which was on-and-off the market.
She was also entitled to her 2022 Bentley, GMC, Polaris and four quads that were gifts to her children, which she noted.
The exes were awarded their separate businesses and bank accounts.
The judgment states, ‘Each party has knowingly and expressly waived and released his or her respective rights to complete full discovery, both formal and informal, relating to any issues and procedures and to investigate beyond what he or she has already pursued,the nature, extent, and value of community property (assets and liabilities) and the parties’ interest therein, and the financial circumstances of the other party.’
It further states that ‘each party has accepted the economic terms’ of the Stipulated Judgment.
‘The first time he proposed I said no, and he threw the ring in the pool,’ the mother-of-three confessed. ‘That was probably red flag number one’ (seen in April 2025)
In a statement to People, Hall’s representative said bluntly: ‘Josh has no clue what Christina is talking about’
The Daily Mail has reached out to Josh and Christina’s attorneys for comment.
A source told the Daily Mail, ‘This was one of the most fair divorces in reality TV history. Josh agreed to split everything he and Christina earned together, and they each walked away from the divorce with everything that they had made prior to the marriage. Josh bought each and every one of those cars on his own.
‘He voluntarily declined spousal support. Given there was no prenup, Christina should send Josh a thank you, but Josh is happy to never have to speak to her again… He couldn’t be happier.’
The reality star’s marriage to Josh was her third marriage. Before him, she was married to Ant Anstead from 2018 to 2021. The pair share custody of son Hudson, five.
She was also married to Tarek El Moussa from 2009 to 2018. They share daughter Taylor, 14, and son Brayden, nine.
