"I thought it would get easier, but it's been astir six months present and it's inactive truthful hard," said Ashley—who shares sons Dean, 3, and Dylan, 13 months, with Michael—during an exclusive interrogation with E! News. "There's immoderate moments of missing our narration and erstwhile I spot him being a truly bully dada it's like, 'Oh man, could I? Should I?' due to the fact that helium is inactive a large dada and a hands-on genitor and that's what I find truthful charismatic astir him."
RHOP fans volition get an intimate look astatine Ashley's determination to separate when play 7 of the Bravo bid premieres Oct. 9.
"I ne'er knew however galore conflicting emotions a idiosyncratic has during this," she said of the split. "Going done this process present and sharing it with the full world, it made maine truly nervous. It made maine tense to beryllium susceptible and stock my feelings. I was like, 'Am I going to look weak?' So I was truly apprehensive astir it but yet it was therapeutic to stock my feelings and to person the enactment of my friends."
Citing co-star Gizelle Bryant, who concisely got backmost together with her ex-husband Jamal successful 2020, Ashley said "never accidental never" to a reconciliation, adding, "Who knows what could hap successful a decade, but astatine this junction, no. I truly bash deliberation that it's a amended determination for some of us."
As for her dating beingness today, Ashley said she's not rushing into anything. "When I was dating earlier Michael, determination was nary online dating—the full scenery looked truthful antithetic and honestly it's petrifying now," the parent of 2 admitted. "The stories I perceive and each these wolves successful sheeps' clothing. I'm decidedly going very, precise snail-paced slow. I'm a small scared."
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The RHOP trailer revealed Ashley and Michael were buying a location amid their separation, a determination she said was "easier" to bash unneurotic alternatively than by herself.
"Home buying is simply a precise analyzable process," she explained. "He's 1 of the astir palmy existent property developers successful the nation's capital. Why wouldn't I travel the proposal of him?"
Hear much scoop from Ashley successful the E! interrogation above. And scroll down for much info connected the caller play of RHOP.
The Real Housewives of Potomac returns Sunday, Oct. 9, astatine 8 p.m. connected Bravo.
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