Southern Charm’s Madison LeCroy Thinks Husband Brett Randle and Ex Austen Kroll ‘Could Maybe Be Friends’

Southern charmMadison LeCroy can imagine a world where her ex-boyfriend Austen Kroll and her husband Brett Randle could strike up a friendship.

When asked during an Amazon Live session Thursday who Randle, 37, considers a friend among them Southern charm hello, LeCroy said, “I guess Craig [Conover] he’d probably be closest to whoever Brett is friends with.”

She continued, “I think it would be weird if he and Austen were friends hanging out, but I think maybe they could be friends.”

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LeCroy, 32, recalled meeting Randle while in Sedona, Arizona, on a bachelorette party.

“I walk into this bar-restaurant and we look at each other,” she said during Amazon Live. “We passed each other, but it was strange, as if we didn’t stop looking at each other. I thought this guy just looked right into my soul.”

Southern Charm’s Madison LeCroy and husband Brett Randle.

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Before they left the bar, LeCroy said Randle “was running after me, and he said, ‘Hey, hey, hey wait! I need to know your name.’” The reality star also gave him her phone number. “And then he flew to Charleston and took me out on a date the next week,” LeCroy said. “I checked on him though, just to make sure he checked out.”

She announced her engagement to Randle in October 2020, and the two said “I do” at a Charleston, South Carolina courthouse in November. After their courthouse wedding, they held an intimate ceremony in Mexico later that month.

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‘Southern Charm’ stars Austen Kroll and Madison LeCroy.

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LeCroy and Kroll, 36, dated for nearly three years before calling it quits in December 2020. The reality stars have continued to feud throughout the seasons, and while LeCroy thinks she and Kroll may never get along, she’s tried to overcome their differences entering season 9.

“I think he and I will always clash a little bit,” she tells PEOPLE. “But at the same time, I was just trying to be the bigger person for once. I knew he wouldn’t do it.”

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The mom of son Hudson, 10, admits she wasn’t surprised to hear Kroll got involved with her ex Olivia Flowers’ good friend Taylor Ann Green after Green, 28, broke up with Kroll’s longtime friend Shep Rose, 43.

“I noticed the chemistry between the two of them last year,” LeCroy says of Green and Kroll. “If anything, I was more surprised that Taylor would do something like that to one of her best friends.”

LeCroy realized at that moment that “the girl code had been cracked.” “That was sad to see,” she says. “I know Olivia has obviously been through a lot and you could see me stepping in as a big sister to her and giving my opinion on why I thought it shouldn’t have happened.”

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The Season 9 trailer teases that LeCroy may be expecting her second child, her first with Randle. But she, if Hudson had his way, he would remain an only child.

“Hudson said I wasn’t allowed to have any more kids until he went to college, which was kind of funny,” says LeCroy. “He’s more open to it now. Brett and I are about to be married for a year, so [we’re] we’re just enjoying our time together and making this house a home so we can plan our future family.”

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Southern charm Season 9 premieres Thursday at 9:00 PM ET on Bravo.

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