Ciara Miller and Amanda Batula defended Paige DeSorbo and insisted she "supported everything" Craig did.
Paige DeSorbo’s BFFs are not holding back when it comes to her ex-boyfriend Southern Charm’s Craig Conover.
Summer House’s Ciara Miller and Amanda Batula supported Paige as she shared more about what was really going on behind the scenes with the couple in the Summer House After Show.
“She’s constantly just like having to be a mother to this man. It’s like, enough is enough,” Ciara said.
Amanda Batula and Ciara Miller defend Paige DeSorbo
During Season 9, Episode 10 of Southern Charm, which aired in November 2023, Paige and Craig talked about how to renovate Craig’s office space. Paige also shared during an August 2023 Amazon Live that she was helping with color schemes and decorating in Craig’s house.
But on the After Show, Amanda took that a step further, declaring Paige was part of “designing the whole house," and insinuating she didn't get enough credit for that — or for the many ways Paige supported Craig's own career moves.
"She supported everything he does. Everything! This girl has stood in the Sewing Down South store and done meet and greets!" Amanda said.
"She does prioritize the relationship!" Ciara added.
Paige admitted she now saw things differently after breaking up with Craig, especially when it came to his support of her career.
"I think obviously when you're in it, you can't see it the way you see it when you're out of it or the way your friends see it, and I think I loved him so much that I tolerated too much. Now that I'm out of it and I look back on things, I'm like, wait, any time I had a career milestone, he found a way to make it about him. Any time there was something and it was for me, my friend's wedding, a family wedding, he would find a way to make it about him and make me have a bad time. It was just embarassing," she said.
Paige DeSorbo reveals her panic attacks were connected to her relationship with Craig Conover
In the fall of 2024, Paige shared in a Giggly Squad podcast episode that she had been experiencing panic attacks before their live shows.
“She’s on this journey trying to figure it out, because it came out of nowhere,” Craig told E! News at the time.
But now on the Summer House After Show, Paige said her panic attacks were actually connected to Craig.
“I had to do a lot of damage control while I was the one performing and about to go out on stage,” she said. “So when I started having panic attacks this fall, while I was doing Giggly Squad, he just thought it was because I worked too much so it played into his, ‘Well you work too much and you shouldn’t be doing all of this … ’ It would never be his fault, no.”
At the end of Summer House’s Episode 5, Craig took Paige to an Australian restaurant in New York City, where he voiced concerns over her podcast tour.
“I know you’re going to choose work 10 times out of ten right now in our lives, but if we were married and we had kids, you can’t choose work all the time,” he told her.
Amanda added Craig tried to convince Paige she was wrong to do her podcast tour by recommending a documentary.
“After I had my panic attack, he had watched a documentary about the band ABBA … and he told me to watch this documentary because it’s about how tours ruined their marriages and their lives,” Paige confirmed.
“Paige is struggling and this man is like, ‘Hey, watch this to prove that I’m right,’” Amanda said.
“Yes, I just got a beta blocker prescription but thank you so much for the nightly TV watch,” Paige joked.
Watch Summer House on Bravo Wednesdays at 9/8c and the Summer House After Show streaming on Peacock.
