“I Had to Walk Away”: Kristin Cavallari Exposes Toxic ‘Overlap’ With Paige DeSorbo That Destroyed Her Romance with Craig Conover

Kristin Cavallari is getting real about her past with Craig Conover — and the timeline as it relates to his three-year relationship with Paige DeSorbo.

Cavallari spilled some tea on Watch What Happens Live on Wednesday, June 4, when Andy Cohen asked what really went down between her, 38, and Conover, 36.

“Okay, let’s talk about it. So, Craig and I were friends first [and] became romantic for two seconds." Cavallari admitted.

Things between them fizzled, though, when she realized DeSorbo, 32, was also in the picture. "The second I caught wind of Paige, I very politely excused myself from the situation."

“Was there overlap in your relationships?” Cohen, 57, asked.

"There was a picture of Craig and Paige in New York — I’ll never forget it — and it looked like they were sort of together. That was the first time anyone had seen them. That was the first I had heard about it," she recalled.

"I saw that picture, and I texted him and I said, ‘Hey, let’s just be friends.’ Like, I don't wanna get in the middle of this."

Cavallari swiftly shut down any chance of rekindling things with the Southern Charm star though given his recent breakup from DeSorbo.

"No, no. I love Craig as a friend," she said.

Two years ago on WWHL, Cavallari first admitted that she and Conover had kissed, after a fan grilled her on the nature of her relationship with him and Austen Kroll.

"What is it there? Did you guys date? Hook up? Friends? Friends with benefits?" the fan asked.

“We were all really good friends for a while and we had a drunk night and we all posted some stupid Instagram dancing around," she said, referring to a slew of posts from a 2020 night out with Kroll and Conover that sparked romance speculation. “It got all blown out of proportion."

She said that she was just "friends" with Conover and Kroll, 37, but when Cohen pressed the subject and asked her point-blank if she'd ever kissed Conover, she admitted to it. "I may have been drunk one night and kissed Craig."

DeSorbo confirmed her split from Conover in December, and she told PEOPLE in April she has no regrets about it.

"I wouldn't have done anything differently. I would have taken the Facebook-over-65 mom hate 10 times over if it meant the same outcome and that I chose myself and what I wanted.”

Conover, meanwhile, confirmed in March that he's dating someone new and is "really happy."

"I've been seeing someone," he said on Watch What Happens Live. "I have been reminded that the universe works in crazy ways, but everything happens for a reason,