Strictly’s Karen Hauer reveals tears that she would “have stayed” with ex-husband Kevin Clifton while she says they ‘belong together’

Strictly Come Dancing Star Karen Hauer emotionally open about the breakdown of her second marriage to Kevin CliftonWhile she insisted that they ‘belong together’.

The Venezuelan -american ballroom specialist, 43, the dancer married in 2015 – three years after member StrictlyThe team of professionals.

They announced their divorce in 2018, but Karen admitted that the divorce played behind the scenes for months before she eventually confirmed that they were no longer together.

Appears on the latest edition of the podcast by Paul C. Brunson, We have to talkWas Karen that it was she who turned on the divorce when it became clear that he “had a distance” from the marriage.

She said: “This hurt because we hear together. You would not say each other’s names without following the name of the other.

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“I felt that he is disturbed by me, but I probably did the same. Because I felt that if you don’t want me, ok, I’ll withdraw, I’ll give you space. It was one of those that we both don’t talk about.

“I had something like:” Do you want a divorce? Do you want to separate? I don’t know what I want to do. What do you want to do? Do you know what you want? I don’t know what I want. Are we apart? “

‘So it actually took a while, it took about a year … behind the scenes. Everything was normal for the scenes.

“We fell apart, and I didn’t know … of course I didn’t know what happened in his head and whether he wanted to be with me or not.”

Despite the fact that he had called at the wedding after three years, Karen claimed that she would have worked to save their relationship if he wanted to be with her.

She said: ‘I knew I had worked on it – I would stay. But at the same time I could not be with someone who knew if they wanted to be with me or not. I couldn’t wait.

‘I waited for a while and I gave him his space to think, and then funny enough I met someone. I literally waited to be loved.

“He just wanted a divorce and I didn’t fight it. Something had to happen to make a decision because I would not make the decision.

“I didn’t go on the plug. So then I stumbled and then the grenade went off. You know, I pulled the pin. ‘

She added: ‘It was difficult for him, tough for me. It was difficult for both of us at that time.

“I could see that he didn’t want to let go. But that didn’t give him any choice. He had to do the right thing for himself. ‘

Despite their divorce, Karen insisted that she and Kevin have a mutual admiration for each other as a trained professionals to dance strictly.

She said: “The respect we had done in the workplace. We respected each other, you know.

“We never said a bad word about each other. I think that is because we keep each other to such a high regard, you know.

“There will always be love. So we still danced together in the show and we still worked around each other. We would still applaud each other, support each other.

“We never lost that and that was what was really sad, that we could and transfer it to our relationship.”

Kevin then started a new relationship with documentary Stacey Dooley after the couple strictly won together in 2018.

The couple welcomed their daughter Minnie together in 2023.

In the meantime, Karen went on to contemporary opera singer David Webb before he entered into a new relationship with businessman Jordan Wyn-Jones, the man who would eventually become her third husband.

The dancer married Jordan in 2022 after they met online, but they divorced only 16 months later.

She now goes out with Simon Davidson, a former rugby player.

The couple led to dating speculation in December 2023 when they were seen who left the strictly upcoming dancing final together, and later in a hotel in Birmingham during the Strict Live Tour.

Then they finally confirmed their romance in January 2024 by sharing a snap of them together on Instagram during a walk in the countryside.