Brittany Snow detailed how the ex-husband Tyler Stanaland “burned” their relationship following his actions on Sell the OC season 1.
Snow, 38, sat down with Host of “Call her dad” Alexandra Cooper for an in-depth conversation, published on Wednesday, March 27, about her life after divorce.
“What happened to me – and I won’t talk about it specifically because I think it goes with a lot of my past relationships or things that I tell my friends – is I started to realize them and start to see them as real people, not this idealized version of what you thought or what you constructed, but who they really are,” Snow said when discussing how she healed from the split.
Snow recalls feeling ‘grateful’ for all the drama surrounding her ex-husband’s reality show because “it was a f–king neon sign” of a red flag.
Snow and Stanaland, 34, married in March 2020. When Sell CO season 1 premiered in August 2022, Stanaland made headlines for his affectionate behavior with other women – mainly Kayla Cardona And Alex Hall — with whom he worked within the Oppenheim group. (He claimed Cardona tried to kiss him off camera and participated in “noseys” with Hall.)
“I wasn’t aware of a lot of things, and I’m going to say that,” Snow told Cooper on Wednesday. “So I will say that what people think happened, happened.”
Snow and Stanaland announced their separation in September 2022. The Perfect pitch actress filed for divorce in January 2023, and they officially reached a settlement in July of the same year.
Keep scrolling to see what Snow said about the drama surrounding her divorce on “Call Her Daddy”:
His relationship with the cast of “Selling the OC”
Snow referred to the actors as “they” throughout the podcast.
“They started it – and I call them all ‘they’ because I don’t know any of them except my ex-husband,” she said. “They took up a lot of energy and emotion and time and real estate in my head, and I don’t want to give them more time and energy because then they would win and they would get what they wanted, that is, to get my time, energy and attention.
Snow went on to say that she released a lot of “anger” and gave herself “grace” throughout the situation.
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How She Watched “Selling the OC”
“Of course I saw it, I watched it with my dog,” she recalls. “Whatever. Now I can laugh about it because I think it’s so… it’s crazy and it’s so funny. It’s so crazy.
Snow also doubled down on the fact that she “I did not know what was happening” during Sell CO was filmed.
“As someone who is very involved in my career, I think I was completely shocked that I didn’t have a sense of reality that way. It was shocking,” the actress explained, recalling the “worst” day she discovered Stanland’s actions.
Having “gut feelings” about your ex
“There were…I had instincts, and I think because I was in love, I didn’t trust them,” she admitted.
Elsewhere in the episode, Snow shared that there was a lot of love between her and Stanaland.
“What happened happened, and I think what it’s alluded to in the press is true,” she continued, offering more details about their relationship. “There was a wedding there. There was so much love. I think gray is hard to understand because it’s much more salacious and interesting than it’s like, he did this, and she did that.
She added: “I think a lot of people get into relationships where someone hurts them, but I don’t regret it. I don’t regret anything that happened. I loved that time we had when we got him.
Have support along the way
As she dealt with the breakup, Snow had support from her close group of friends.
I really, really scream and thank so much to my friends who just laid there with me. They didn’t try to fix it, and they didn’t try to fix it, because there’s nothing to fix,” she said. “There is nothing to change. It’s like that. And they just left me alone, and that’s what I needed at that time.
His relationship status now
Although Snow admitted that she is currently single, she has been “in and out of things,” but not in a real relationship.
“I’ve been, let’s use air quotes here, weirdly single. I’m not saying it’s weird, it’s so weird for me to be single,” she explained. “I say weird because it’s very easy for me to get into a relationship, and I actively tried to be alone and be with myself and just feel the feelings and not have to dress them up with glitter, sparkles, emotional thing.