Jeff Lewissays that no matter how bad things get between him and his partner Gage Edward, from whomhe separated last week, he’ll never puttheir daughterin the middle of it.
Edward, 33, and Lewis, 48,welcomed Monroe in October 2016. (They are now involved in alawsuit with the surrogate who carried her, who claims producers filmed her delivery for their Bravo show without her knowledge.)
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Edward told PEOPLE he had no comment on the situation.
Lewis revealed on last Thursday’s episode that he and his partner of ten years had spent the better part of a year sleeping in separate bedrooms and said their relationship had become more of a “friends with benefits” arrangement.
“Monroe’s happiness is Jeff and Gage’s top priority,” the insider said. “She’s their world.”
“They’ve always kept any of the trouble that was going on between them away from her, making it a point not to argue in front of her or around her,” the source added. “She’s totally unaware of any tension. They’re great parents.”
Another source told PEOPLE at the time that Lewis and Edward are still figuring out their next steps with Monroe.
“Jeff and Gage aren’t talking about long term custody plans just yet,” the source said. “This is just a temporary break — they’re still trying to work on their relationship, and Gage will still come and see Monroe.”
“Everyone in their lives are hoping they come back together,” added the insider. “They’ve been together for a long time and there’s a lot of history there. Unfortunately, they’ve just fallen into a pattern. Hopefully this time apart will help them both realize why they were together for so long.”
During Tuesday’s episode ofJeff LewisLive, the host said that Edward had rented his own apartment, and, he claims, he found out the Edward went on a date less than a week after moving out.
“We’ve been getting along pretty well until I found out that he went out on a date on Saturday night,” Lewis said, adding that he believed Edward and his companion met at the gym some time ago.
“I will not say his name, but just for today, we’re going to call him ‘homewrecker,'” Lewis said of the anonymous man. “Homewrecker, I think, has been in [Edward’s] ear for quite some long time. I think Homewrecker has exploited quite a vulnerable situation. I think this person positioned himself as a gym buddy friend and I think this person has set his sights on him for quite some time.”
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Although Lewis said he is “in pain” after learning that Edward was potentially seeing someone else, he is willing to take the majority of responsibility for the problems in their relationship, which come on the heels of a tumultuous year for the couple.
Lewis’s grandmother passed away and his personal and professional relationship with his friend of nearly 20 years andFlipping Outcostar, Jenni Pulos, ended. The latter, Lewis has suggested may lead to theend of their Bravo seriesafter 11 seasons.
The couple’s relationship news also comes nearly 8 months after their surrogate, who carried Monroe,filed a lawsuitagainst them. Alexandra Trent is suing the couple as well as Bravo and the show’s production company, Authentic Entertainment, claiming that the show filmed her giving birth without permission during her delivery and that Edward and Lewis made “disgusting” remarks about her.
She is seeking damages for unlawful recording, invasion of privacy and fraud. Lewis has strongly refuted these claims, but the legal action is ongoing andwill likely go to trial.
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“I am 90 percent responsible for why we are here,” he said. “I emotionally abandoned him last year. I was a completely prick. I turned on him. I pushed him away. It was my worst year. I experienced great loss. I lost my best friend of many years, Jenni, my grandmother, our surrogate, who I cared for. It was great loss and I did not handle it well. I self-destructed, I did. I didn’t even recognize myself. By the time I tried to correct the situation, which wasn’t until Jan. 1 of this year, it was too late.”
“I take responsibility,” he continued. “Believe it or not, I changed a lot in the last 30 days. There’s things that I’ve done and said that I would never do again to anyone, any person . . . I was circling the drain, I really was . . . It’s extremely f—ing painful, let me tell you.”
Jeff LewisLiveairs Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays (11 a.m. ET) on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy (Ch. 102.)
source: people.com
