Credit: Shutterstock\/ Tinseltown\/Featureflash Photo Agency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nGarcelle Beauvais\u00a0opened up about her engagement, marriage, and divorce from her ex-husband,\u00a0Mike Nilon, the father of her\u00a016-year-old twins, Jax and Jaid, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
While appearing on Bravo\u2019s podcast with her\u00a0Real Housewives of Beverly Hills\u00a0co-star and friend,\u00a0Sutton Stracke, 52, Garcelle, 57, looked back on her relationship with Mike, whom she split from in 2010 due to\u00a0his past affair, as she also admitted to not liking Sutton at first and shared the text she received from\u00a0Andy Cohen, 55, after her\u00a0emotional chat with Jax.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were together almost two and a half years, and I came to a crossroads,\u201d Garcelle revealed of her and Mike\u2019s early moments together on the April 16 episode of\u00a0Bravo\u2019s Hot Mic\u00a0podcast. \u201cI was like, \u2018What are we doing?\u2019 I have a young son. Mike met [Oliver Saunders] when he was seven. So we actually broke up because he wasn\u2019t ready. It wasn\u2019t part of his five-year plan.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember he was crying, I was crying, and Oliver was crying. It was really kind of sad,\u201d she continued. \u201cI was a single mom. I wanted to get married and have a stable home with family life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then, after not seeing one another for three months, Garcelle and Mike ran into one another at a movie premiere, after which their wild engagement went down.<\/p>\n
\u201cI go to the afterparty and I say to my girlfriend, \u2018If we\u2019re talking, come and get me,\u2019 like come and say something and get me away from the conversation. So Mike pulls me over, we\u2019re talking, and then he proposes,\u201d Garcelle shares. \u201cSo Jen comes over and she\u2019s like, \u2018Garcelle, we gotta go,\u2019 I go, \u2018Jen I\u2019m engaged.\u2019 No ring. No nothing. He proposed and I was engaged.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the \u201ccrazy\u201d night, Garcelle returned home to Oliver and shared her exciting news.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said to him, \u2018I saw Mike tonight \u2026 and he proposed.\u2019 And he said, \u2018Did you say yes?\u2019 And I said, \u2018I did,\u2019 and we were both so happy,\u201d she admitted. \u201cAnd then I got to work the next day and I told\u00a0Jamie Foxx<\/strong>, who I was working with, and he was like, \u2018You couldn\u2019t wait?\u2019 Because we were almost done \u2026 and we had always said that we weren\u2019t going to mess around. So he was like, \u2018You couldn\u2019t wait?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\nAt the time that Garcelle and Mike wed in 2001, Garcelle was a working actress.<\/p>\n
\u201cI loved being married so much. There was like the union and the house and the taking care of things, I really loved being married but I was still working, not as much as [I had been]. I felt like I married a man that could provide if I wasn\u2019t working. He felt safe. He was a safe choice,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n
As for her regret, Garcelle said she wished she stayed married for just one year longer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was married almost nine years. I should\u2019ve waited for the 10th year. So dumb!\u201d Garcelle declared. \u201cOne more year. That\u2019s my problem. I move too quick.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moving on to the start of her\u00a0relationship with Sutton, Garcelle agreed when Sutton noted, \u201cShe didn\u2019t like me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I had heard was that she was a New York socialite, she hadn\u2019t worked in 17 years. I have nothing in common with that. \u2018I haven\u2019t worked in 17 years?\u2019 I\u2019d love a man to tell me not to work for 17 years!\u201d Garcelle proclaimed. \u201cSo, I thought, you know, \u2018Whatever.\u2019 And she came in the car, and she was like, \u2018Oh, my kids told me that I should work.\u2019 And I just thought, \u2018Oh, okay.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Sutton was equally put off, signaling to a fashion show appearance alongside her castmate.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe wanted a sandwich at a fashion show. We\u2019re front row. Who\u2019s eating a sandwich? I was thinking to myself, \u2018Who orders a sandwich front row of New York Fashion Week?\u2019 Garcelle!\u201d Sutton recalled.<\/p>\n
Then, as time continued, the ladies realized they \u201chad a lot in common.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think when we had our first like one-on-one date and Garcelle had the nerve to ask me, \u2018Where do you get all your money?\u2019 She\u2019s fearless. It didn\u2019t offend me but I was like, \u2018Okay I\u2019m glad somebody\u2019s finally going to ask me something of content,\u2019 because no one had really [gotten to know me],\u201d Sutton shared. \u201cAnd my response, I was like, \u2018Why do you gotta ask that?\u2019 And we started laughing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over the years, as they have found themselves single and raising children, Garcelle said they\u2019ve often leaned on one another.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne time, she was having some issues with her ex. She called me and she said, \u2018How do you get along with your ex so well? Are you still sleeping with him?\u2019 And I was like, no, I haven\u2019t gone back there,\u201d Garcelle stated.<\/p>\n
Also on the podcast, as Sutton admitted Jax was \u201cbrutally honest\u201d during their\u00a0heart-to-heart beach scene\u00a0on season 13, Garcelle agreed he\u2019s \u201camazing\u201d before admitting she was nervous for the scene to air.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was so scared because being a mom is the number one job for me and I was so scared people were going to see me in a bad light,\u201d she explained. \u201cBut what was really interesting is that not only are Jax and I in a better place but during\u00a0BravoCon, people were coming up to me, saying, \u2018You\u2018re such a good mom. The fact that your kid felt comfortable enough to say that\u2026\u2019\u201d [And] I never imagined that would be. I only thought it would be bad. I didn\u2019t think people could relate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garcelle also received support from Andy.<\/p>\n
\u201cAndy Cohen sent me a text. He was like, \u2018I just watched the scene of you and Jax and that gutted me,\u2019\u201d she revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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