Meghan King Edmonds gives her first, full interview after her husband’s cheating scandal.
On Monday, more than a month after Jim Edmonds admitted to Us Weekly he “engaged in an inappropriate conversation” with Jennifer Villegas, the Real Housewives of Orange County alum spoke to DailyMail.com about the controversy.
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From her home in St. Louis, the Bravolebrity told the publication she is still very much married to the former MLB star.
The reality TV personality revealed:
“We’re still married, we’re still together, we’re not separated. I know my engagement ring is well known! I’m still wearing it. I’ve never stopped wearing it… We’re in the family home, we’re in the same bed. We’re not having therapy, we’re talking.”
When asked how she found out about the athlete’s sexts, the mother dished:
“I found out the same day, the same way that everybody else did… A person I don’t know forwarded me a link on social media. I clicked on it and read it… When I read it, I had a feeling, I knew in my gut there was truth to it. I was shocked and I took a shower… I’d never experienced a turmoil of emotions like it; I felt overwhelmingly alone and sad… We were still a normal, married couple. Physically, nothing was missing from our relationship.”
At the time of the shocking reveal, Meghan said the baseball player “was in New York working,” adding:
“We FaceTimed and he came clean and told me everything… He was extremely emotional, crying and remorseful. He wanted to fly straight back to be with me but I told him that I did not want him to do that until he had finished working, so that’s what he did.”
Though she feared there was more to the story, King Edmonds was relieved when she discovered Jim and Jennifer never had a physical relationship.
“I felt at the time that those revelations would be the tip of the iceberg, that a lot more would come out. I was actually very scared, too… But as we talked I just wanted to get everything out, get the truth out and start to build… There turned out to be a lot less to come out. There was no physical relationship. He only met this other woman when she stalked him one time.”
In regards to the woman in question, Meghan believes she is a “con artist” who has “gone after so many baseball players” in the past.
“This woman is a con artist. She’s gone after so many baseball players. She was out to get some money and she got it, then she was on to the next one… It was a baiting kind of thing. She would do that and move on. Believe me I am still mad at him but once I figured that out, what she was like, I was able to pull our family together. It actually made it more bearable.”
Meghan even labeled Jennifer as “disgusting” and “gross” after seeing her photo online.
“The second I saw her photo I saw she was disgusting. I saw how gross she was and I knew, ‘All good.’… I knew he would never touch her. That helped me. Then I knew it was just a sexting thing. The pics she sent him were all highly filtered and she had sunglasses on, body parts were altered. It was all very sex related… She told him that they had met in the past. She made up some story about how he helped her ten years ago by carrying some stuff to her car or something… Then she wanted to know about his workouts then the naked pictures started coming. They never met ten years or so ago either, that was a lie… I can’t relate to somebody like that because I’m not immoral… You know what, she doesn’t really mean anything to me. She’s just like a function of my husband’s bad decision… I don’t want to think about her and I have nothing I want to say to her. Do I feel deep emotion about her at this point? No.'”
Despite the drama, Meghan has no plans to report Jennifer to authorities.
“I haven’t gone to the FBI. I’m not wasting my time… Other people might have gone to the FBI about her but not me, I am concentrating on my marriage and my children.”
Unfortunately, the couple’s drama has affected their children, including two-year-old daughter Aspen, and one-year-old twin boys, Hart and Hayes.
“They picked up on the anxiety in the house. I’m an open book and I think it is important to be open and honest with the whole family but on an age appropriate level… With my daughter, when we would say our nightly prayers I said to her, ‘We need to pray for mommy and daddy that we learn to love each other so, so much again. Because we do love each other so, so much and we need to learn it again because we are so, so sad right now.’… That was hard.'”
Overall, Meghan’s faith and wider family have helped her through this difficult time.
“My faith helps me with everything and I have family here in Missouri. I pray that things get back to what it was like before but better. We don’t want things to be the same or worse. We only have one place to go and that’s better… In a marriage when there’s a fight or an indiscretion, nobody wins if they leave. If I left, I wouldn’t win. I don’t win by staying. The only way to win is to work through it. It’s not about right or wrong because everyone is hurt… I’m a mom, that’s my strength and I need it. With fame, I’ve discovered the highs are very high and the lows are very low. I have had support from the Housewives but my main support network are my close friends and family here in Missouri… My family is the ultimate example of a loving, supporting family and they know how to support my husband and I as a unit without condemning his actions… Jim has to go away and work and at least he’s on TV so I know where he is!… I’ve just got to have faith that he’s not going to screw up. But I know he’s not going to screw up. He really wants to make this work.”
Thoughts?
[Image via Meghan King Edmonds/Instagram.]
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