Paige DeSorbo is on a career highin 2025. Her podcast consistently ranks as number one in the charts, and she andher co-starHannah Bernerjust completed their countrywide tour. Plus, Paige is still the most entertaining person on the hitBravoreality seriesSummer House. Paige has also broken into the world of fashion, taking her far from her bed bug lifestyle as she hosted theVanity FairOscar Party red carpet, appeared onThe Today Show, and has been seated in the front row at fashion shows.
Her recent career success didn’t come without upheavals in Paige’s life. In September 2024, Paige revealed on her podcast that she had experienced a panic attack before hitting the stage at a Giggly Squad show. Now that she andSouthern CharmstarCraig Conoverhave broken up, Paige has revealed further details about her mental health, and it is clear that her thoughts about Craig’s effect on her anxiety differ greatly from the way he chose to portray it in the media last fall.
What Paige Has Said About Her Mental Health
On theSummer House After Show, Paige mentioned thatCraig was only superficially supportiveof her career and was constantly pressuring her to put him first, which contributed to the decline in her mental health last fall. She shared the story of a time when she was on tour and Craig asked her to watch a documentary aboutthe rock band ABBA, and how touring ruined their careers and personal lives. This passive-aggressive attempt to demonstrate to Paige that she should learn a lesson through viewing this documentary was a part of the behavior that caused her to break down last fall.She noted it never even occurred to Craig that it was possible he was contributing to her panic attacks, just as he failed to realize he was causing her anxiety by feuding withherSummer Houseco-starKyle Cookin Season 9. Paige also observed that looking back now, without the rose-colored glasses of trying to make the relationship work, she realized that she had “tolerated too much” with Craig.
Paige has always shown incredible loyalty, and will defend her friendships the same way that she stood up for Craig in their relationship, but this intense Italian-American sense of allegiance wasn’t serving her romantically any longer. BothSummer HouseandSouthern Charmhave proved with their current seasons that Paige had already begun to check out mentally in her relationship prior to the breakup,and for good reason.Craig’s constant need to push Paige to settle down and prioritize him above her careeris ultimately the wedge that drove them apart.
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Craig Was the Reason for Paige’s Stress
In September 2024, when Conover was giving interviews about DeSorbo’s recent panic attack, his attempt to place himself at the center of that narrative wasconsistent with his behavior in their relationship overall. It comes across as self-absorbed to speak so confidently in the press about his own role in helping to calm Paige down just days after she revealed the mental health update on her podcast, especially since he seemed to be completely clueless that he was the cause of her anxiety. Craig’s observation thatthe attacks “came out of nowhere"toE! Newsdemonstrated how out of touch theSouthern Charmstar was about his own role in causing his girlfriend’s discomfort.
Conover attempted to use the media to frame himself as Paige’s knight in shining armor, when he was actually the villain trying to keep her trapped in a tower. Or rather, a renovated home in Charleston with a great backyard.Being passive-aggressive and seeking constant reassurance from Paige that she would settle down with himon his timeline was the driving force behind her anxiety last fall, andthe root of their breakup. Craig tried to pin Paige down to ensure that he would become the center of her world, that she would pump the breaks in her career to prioritize becoming a wife and mother, andit all reeks of patriarchy and privilege. If a submissive Southern Belle is what Craig is after,he’s sure to find one closer to home. Paige has always been consistent in her message that she wants to live in New York, that she wants to take advantage of her platform while she is young and building a giggly empire, and thatpressure from a man to settle down is nowhere on her 2025 mood board.
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