Olivia Flowers reveals how new husband Alex is dating Austen Kroll

Olivia Flowers‘A new romance is sweeter than a honeybee – and even her ex-boyfriend Austen Krol approves the link.

“His name is Alex [and] he’s from Dallas. We met at a wedding,” Flowers, 31, revealed Nick Vial on Thursday, November 30, episode of him “Viall files” podcast. “I was my father’s date [to the ceremony] and he came too late. So I come in alone, late, and [Alex] was the usher and he said, “Can I walk you down the aisle?” I thought, ‘It’s a little early, but okay.’

Alex works in the financial world and had never heard of Flowers Southern charm when they met.

“He didn’t know anything about the show, so it was fun to introduce him,” she joked before Viall, 43, asked for Kroll’s thoughts on the new couple. “Well, they met and things went well. Since Alex can get extra nice when he’s drunk and can be a buddy, I thought, “Honey, just go be nice, but you don’t have to be best friends with him.”

To Flowers’ surprise, Alex and Kroll, 36, returned from their golf outing laughing in the same cart. “There were like four golf carts and they were in one together and I was like, ‘Holy shit,’” she joked.

Flowers further claimed that there was no awkwardness between Alex and Kroll, who she split from in 2022 after a year together, and that they even recently went on a group trip together.

“[Austen and I] I have mutual friends with a sick spot in the Bahamas and he and I both got them during the divorce. They invited us both on this trip, with a group of people, and we both went,” Flowers said Thursday, noting that she brought Alex along and Kroll invited his new girlfriend. “We were able to put our bulls aside.”

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According to Flowers, the trip took place “two weeks ago” after the now-exes got into a heated argument following their BravoCon cast panel. Earlier this month, Kroll was asked at the fan convention how he could have handled his relationship better Shep Rose‘s ex Taylor-Ann Green. After Flowers interrupted Kroll’s monologue about not lying to 43-year-old Rose, the crowd booed him.

“We’re getting off stage, and I’m walking by and I see him looking at me, and he’s like, ‘F–k you, Olivia. F-k you,’ he just got so angry,” she recalled. “He gets into situations like this, people react and have an opinion, but he needs someone to blame for that. Because I started a conversation where other people booed him, it’s my fault.”

Olivia continued: “We were yelling at each other and then went to the Bahamas four days later.”