Kristin Cavallari gets real about drunken love Southern charm star Craig Conover.
The hills The alum has been under fire for her relationships with the Bravo star and his co-star Austen Kroll, with Watch what’s happening live host Andy Cohen asks her on Tuesday night’s episode, “What’s that over there? Have you been dating? Connect? Friends? Friends with benefits?”
“We were all really good friends for a while and we had a drunken night and we all posted a stupid Instagram dance around,” Cavallari, 36, said, referring to social media posts of them partying in Nashville in 2020, which included and one video in which Kroll lifted Cavallari onto his shoulders.
“Everything is overblown,” said the first Very Cavallari star.
Kristin Cavallari says she’s just ‘friends’ with Austen Kroll after their night out
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She clarified that she is “still friends” with the two and that Kroll, 36, was visiting Nashville that week.
She kept saying, “We’re all friends.”
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Cohen, 54, pressed the reality star, saying: “You never got involved with Craig?”
“Maybe one night I was drunk and I kissed Craig,” she admitted about the minor relationship with the founder of Sewing Down South (34).
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The Uncommon founder James has repeatedly shot down rumors of a relationship with Kroll, initially addressing the chat in an Instagram Story days after the threesome’s night out.
“I didn’t know I wasn’t allowed to have FRIENDS who were guys,” Cavallari wrote alongside a video of her rolling her eyes.
In 2021, she again clarified the trio’s relationship, saying: “Let’s clear up some gossip—”
“I don’t feel like I owe anybody an explanation, I don’t normally comment on these things, but these rumors have been going on for about a year now,” she said as she tackled rumors that she was in a “love triangle” with Kroll and Conover, who claimed that “they are not true”.
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“My one and only love triangle was documented in high school,” she wrote via the post, referring to her complicated relationships with then-boyfriend Stephen Colletti and Lauren Conrad, which played out on MTV’s hit reality show. Laguna Beach.
She added: “I’ve never dated any of them. I can guarantee I won’t date any of them,” the mother-of-three explained. “It’s possible for a grown woman to be friends with a grown man and that’s it.”
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Cavallari has three children with ex-husband Jay Cutler. The couple filed for divorce in April 2020 after seven years of marriage.
Conover was in a relationship with his Winter house actress Paige DeSorbo from April 2021, and Kroll is causing trouble in the new season Southern charm (premiering Thursday) after a relationship with his good friend Shep Rose’s ex-girlfriend, Taylor Ann Green.
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