Tarek El Moussa is ready to flip the script on the dramatic end of his marriage to Christina Hall.
After a half-hour hike, El Moussa heard the distinctive sound of a helicopter above him.
“A police officer leaning out of the helicopter pointed a rifle at me,” he writes.
Tarek Christina and El Moussa on ‘Flip or Flop’.HGTV
Fortunately, one of the officers recognized him from his television work.
“I heard an officer shout, ‘Tarek?’
I screamed back, ‘Yes!
‘Flip Your Life,’ by Tarek El Moussa.Hachette Go
Im the guy from TV!
What are you guys doing?'”
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El Moussa then recounts how the officers handcuffed him and escorted him home.
A representative for Hall declined to comment on El Moussa’s book.
Flip Your Lifemarks the first time El Moussa, 42, has publicly addressed the incident.
Speaking to PEOPLEabout his new book, El Moussa said, “I hold nothing against Christina.
I understand why she did what she did.
We had a lot of hard years through my sicknesses and my mental health struggles…
I’ve never said any of this, ever.”
After their breakup, Hall and El Moussa continued to filmFlip or Floptogether for several years.
TheHGTVseriesofficially endedin spring 2022.
El Moussa and Hall have both since remarried.
El Moussa married Heather Young in 2021.
She married realtor Joshua Hall in 2022, and they are still together.
