Christine Quinn has opened up about her troubled marriage amid her painful split from ex-husband Christian Dumontet. 

The former Selling Sunset star, 36, said ‘this is the first time I’m talking about this stuff,’ she told People, following her relocation to Texas, where she and her son Christian Georges, three are now living. 

‘I haven’t talked about this with anyone,’ the former high end real estate agent told the publication. 

‘Some people knew stuff was going on, but no one knew the extent of it in terms of how bad everything really was.’

The couple me via a mutual friend in early  2019 and and got engaged on Valentine’s of the same, year, secretly tying the knot in December of the same year.

They then staged a gothic winter-themed wedding featured in season three of the reality show with 75 guests in attendance. Dumontet went by Christian Richard on camera, ‘for privacy,’ according to a Netflix official.

Christine Quinn, 36, has opened up about her trouble marriage to ex-husband Christian Dumontet, 45, following her relocation to her native Texas with her son amid safety concerns;  Pictured in Los Angeles in March 2023

The pair welcomed their son in May 2021. 

While all many have looked like they were having a fairytale ending on screen, behind the scenes, things were very different Quinn explained.

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‘There were times where my husband, literally, where I had to go to work and he would lay himself under my car,’ she told the publication. 

‘I would sit for an hour until I finally missed a meeting and gave up and would go back inside, or he would shut the gates down so I couldn’t leave. It was bad,’ she said of his alleged controlling behavior.

The breaking point seemed to come when Quinn said her ex’s behavior started affecting their toddler. 

‘There are certain things that I could tolerate, and it got to a point where it was affecting my son, and that wasn’t okay. I was like, “Okay, I can deal with this, I’m an adult.” But bringing him into the chaos and everything that kind of ensued, I was like, “No, this is not okay.”‘

The tech entrepreneur was arrested in March 2024 on ᴀssault with a ᴅᴇᴀᴅly weapon after officers said he threw a trash bag with glᴀss it in at Quinn, but missed and hit their son. 

The couple met in early 2019 via a mutual friend, got engage on Valentine’s day and married secretly in December 2019;  Pictured in Los Angeles in June 2023

The pair welcomed son Christian Georges, now three in May 2021;  Pictured in Santa Monica, CA in December 2021

He was arrested again after he ‘willfully’ violated a restraining order Quinn had taken out against him. 

As a result, it was Quinn and her son that ended up leaving their familial home. 

‘People really don’t know this. I was hacked out of my entire life. I was stripped of my entire life overnight — I literally had nothing,’ she said, claiming her ex had made it so that she was denied access to her bank accounts, credit cards, and email account after he allegedly ‘commandeered’ her phone number. 

‘It was dehumanizing,’ said a tearful Quinn. ‘I was completely resourceless.’  

‘Everyone sees the incident that occurred, but this is something that had been going on for a while,’ she added. 

‘This is something that had been under the surface for a long time. It was extremely unhealthy, and I like to think that I’m extremely resilient — and I am.’

The influencer whose parents were high school sweethearts, wanted to honor her marriage vows, but said she had to put her son first.

The Selling Sunset alum told People that during their marriage the tech executive was controlling and would pull stunts, such as laying beneath her car, to prevent her from going to meetings; Pictured in Los Angeles in June 2024

The influencer said she decided to make a break after Dumentot’s allege behavior began to affect their son, following her ex’s arrest for ᴀssault with a ᴅᴇᴀᴅly weapon in March 2024;  pictured in Milan in September 2024

Quinn and her son have relocated to the Dallas area, where they are close to family. ‘It’s really something that I needed as opposed to the chaos when I was in Los Angeles,’ she said;  Pictured in Milan in September 2024

‘It took everything out of me, it really did, to realize that this is the right thing to do. And then it became a matter of safety. It was initially safety for me, and then it was safety for my son. And so I had to walk away. 

Her new life in her native Texas seems to have brought Quinn and her some an added sense of safety. 

‘I am really, really grateful to be living here,’ she said of her relocation to Dallas where she is ‘ close to my family.’

‘I have a sister who lives really close to me, and my son has a cousin. So it’s really something that I needed as opposed to the chaos when I was in Los Angeles.’