Bethenny Frankel told Jason Hoppy that she was “so incredibly relieved” when she miscarried during their “suffocating” marriage.
“In a constructive way, I said, ‘I’m kind of relieved … because I don’t think this is a healthy or positive relationship,'” the “Real Housewives of New York City” alum recalled on Tuesday’s episode of her “Just B Divorced” podcast.
“It was a nightmare that it happened,” the Bravolebrity, 53, clarified. “[That was] my first step to saying something.”
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Frankel claimed that Hoppy, 53, responded by calling her a “real piece of s–t” and temporarily moving out of their home — which she also considered a “relief.”
Frankel, who was already the mother of daughter Bryn, first addressed the pregnancy loss in a June 2012 Glamour essay.
She admitted to experiencing “relief” at the time — but not because of her and Hoppy’s rocky relationship.
“There was, I have to admit, a bit of relief that I wouldn’t be starting my new TV job seven months pregnant,” Frankel wrote. “And then there was immense guilt at the relief.”
On Tuesday, the former reality star spilled some details about her sex life prior to the miscarriage, alleging that Hoppy often compared their bed to a “block of ice” since she “didn’t want to have sex at all.”
“I did not want to be intimate,” Frankel explained, blaming this mindset on a lack of “respect” for the businessman. “I used to force myself, gag myself through doing it. … It is torture.”
She and Hoppy announced their split in December 2012 and engaged in a lengthy court battle before finally finalizing the divorce in 2021.
Frankel was awarded full legal custody of Bryn.
The exes welcomed their baby girl two months after their 2010 wedding, with Frankel calling herself “stupid” for conceiving early on in their romance.
“I will never regret my daughter for one minute,” she told podcast listeners, “but I felt like I was bullied and waterboarded and flogged and on a road I could not get off of.”
Frankel went on to say that she believes their troubles stemmed from Hoppy feeling “emasculated by [their] disparity in income.”
During last week’s episode, Frankel admitted to ignoring “red flags” about her partner and “convinc[ing her]self” to be into him.
The former “Bethenny” host is now engaged to producer Paul Bernon — and has been for three years.
Frankel told E! News in 2023 that she has no plans to walk down the aisle again.
“I don’t want to sign a contract with someone I love,” she explained. “And I don’t want to plan a massive wedding for everybody else and not what we want.”
