Taking part in Fox’s Stars on Mars has permitted Tom Schwartz to begin to truly feel like himself once again immediately after his divorce from Katie Maloney.
“I essential a excellent dose of levity and experience,” the Vanderpump Guidelines star, 40, exclusively told Us Weekly on Friday, June 23, even though promoting the Fox sequence. “I guess from, like, the previous handful of several years, I floundered a minor bit and I type of feel like I fell aside, but coming up listed here, it gave me a clean standpoint on almost everything. It gave me the overview effect.”
Schwartz continued: “It’s like when astronauts go up [into space] and they look again down on Earth and all of a unexpected they get this, like, cognitive change. They appear at the earth in a different way. I required to just reset my head and I attained that up there. I seriously did. I was stuck in my personal tiny unhappy tale, kinda wallowing a tiny bit for the previous 12 months. And, [Stars on Mars] snapped me out of it, and I sense like I’m myself all over again.”
Schwartz — who discovered that he “thrives” with experience and levity — had been with Maloney, 36, for much more than a 10 years prior to they resolved to go their independent strategies. The now-exes, who wed in 2016, confirmed in March 2022 that they experienced break up.
“I by no means believed I would have to make an announcement like this. But I come to feel it is vital that I’m open up about my life with you,” the One thing About Her restaurateur wrote by means of Instagram at the time. “After 12 a long time on an experience via our everyday living alongside one another, Tom and I are ending our relationship. This ending is not satisfied with resentment or animosity, no sides to decide on. We have deep admiration for one a further that will constantly stay and cherish our friendship.”
Tom Schwartz and Katie Maloney. Rob Latour/Shutterstock
Schwartz, for his section, echoed Maloney’s sentiments in his possess social media concept at the time. “Well this sucks,” he wrote. “I’m not the target. Not gonna publish as well unhappy a song. Entirely respect Katie’s choice and we’ve experienced wholesome, effective conversations about it. It would be considerably sadder if she resolved to stay with me whilst not delighted.”
Schwartz and the Utah native finally finalized their divorce in Oct 2022 and prepared to split custody of their two pets.
The pair also agreed that they wouldn’t hook up with anyone in their Vanderpump Rules mate team. Schwartz broke that arbitrary rule when he built out with Raquel Leviss in August 2022 at Scheana Shay and Brock Davies’ wedding day. (Leviss, 28, started a months-prolonged affair with Schwartz’s BFF, Tom Sandoval, that similar weekend regardless of his nine-year romance with now-ex Ariana Madix.) Schwartz’s liplock with the attractiveness queen shortly sparked a rift with Maloney.
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“When we are sharing custody of pet dogs and share mutual very best pals, making boundaries is needed,” she wrote by means of Instagram in February. “I wasn’t telling him what to do. I was expressing it would produce a poisonous ecosystem and he agreed. We experienced seen it play out in our pal team a million occasions in advance of.”
Schwartz and Maloney have remained at odds amid Scandoval and throughout the period 10 reunion, which aired on Bravo in May perhaps. The TomTom cofounder, for his component, is all set to bring his newfound Stars on Mars self-assurance to his day-to-day everyday living shifting forward.
“I truly feel like Tom, what version of Tom is this? It’s possible let’s say 5.,” Schwartz quipped on Friday. “I sense like I am refined, perhaps a tiny extra stoic. I really feel just a small little bit much more ready to take on whatever lifestyle throws at me, you know? I haven’t been necessarily proud of how I’ve responded to some adversity in the past calendar year. … It was therapeutic, in a way, up there.”
New episodes of Stars on Mars air on Fox Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.
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With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
