Kristin Cavallari is not backing off her stance in the Jay Cutler divorce dispute.
More than two years after their split was finalized in 2022, Cavallari again pushed back on the idea that she walked away from the marriage with financial support from her ex-husband. On Tuesday’s episode of the “Aspire with Emma” podcast, she repeated that she does not receive money from Cutler and said the settlement went the other way.
“I don’t get any money from my ex-husband," she said (Timestamp: 40:37). "I had to give him half the value of (her business) Uncommon James in cash and properties and everything else. Isn’t that interesting?
"I was really pissed at the time, and now I’m so thankful because I think, for me, I’ve needed these things in my life to keep going."
Cavallari said the success of Uncommon James gave her the confidence to leave the marriage. She and Cutler were married for nearly seven years before separating in 2020, and they share three children. After the divorce, they agreed to joint custody, with each parent getting 182.5 days a year with the kids.
The alimony conversation has been simmering for months. Cavallari first made the claim last year on the June 18 episode of her “Honestly Cavallari” podcast, and Cutler pushed back two months later. In August, he addressed the issue on the “Take it Outside” podcast and argued that, in his view, the divorce math didn’t add up.
“Let’s think about this logically. ‘Not a penny,’ OK.
Married for, I don’t know, seven years or so, three kids. You can go and see how much I made in the NFL.
It’s online," Cutler said.
"You can see the contract from year to year and the total amount at the end of 12 years. So, you go to divorce, and each side gets a lawyer, and then you go to court, and there’s a judge."
Cutler also said the couple filed for divorce in a Tennessee court and suggested no judge would have approved zero alimony to a mother of three children.
The former Chicago Bears quarterback was jailed the same month after pleading guilty to DUI charges. He had been arrested for the felony in October 2024, and Cavallari later sent him a well-wishing message about the situation.
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