
“I really like him. I imply, I nonetheless take a look at him within the eye,” she mentioned of her ex-husband, who allegedly cheated all through their marriage whereas filming their massively standard YouTube channel, The ACE Household.
Catherine Paiz is opening up on why she continues to discuss her her ex-husband Austin McBroom with nothing however kindness, regardless of their marriage being rocked by a dishonest scandal.
The 34-year-old social media star is greatest identified for documenting her life with then-husband McBroom on their massively standard YouTube channel, The ACE Household which cultivated an viewers of over 18 million subscribers on the platform.
Nonetheless, their marriage got here to a screeching halt, with Paiz later accused him of infidelity in her memoir, Dolores: My Journey Residence. He later admitted to “stepping out of my marriage,” but additionally insisted “Catherine knew what I used to be coping with for a really very long time,” claiming he wasn’t getting the “affection” he wanted from her.
After turning her memoir into an audiobook with SpotifyPaiz opened as much as TooFab solely about the place she stands with McBroom — over a yr since their divorce. Since then, followers of The ACE Household have been fast to note how Paiz nonetheless speaks of McBroom fondly, regardless of his infidelity all through their marriage.
“I try this as a result of he is me,” Paiz started to inform TooFab solely.
“As a result of everybody is definitely you, we’re all one and this incarnation, this actuality, this matrix that we’re in, this simulation, everyone seems to be a mirrored image of you and nothing is finished to you, every little thing is finished for you,” she continued.
The pair privately wed in 2017, later asserting the information in January 2020 whereas anticipating their third baby. They share three youngsters: Elle, 8, Alaïa, 6, and Metal, 4. The pair had been collectively for almost a decade and married for seven years earlier than asserting their divorce with separate Instagram statements in January 2024.
“I went by a variety of ache, and I went by it in entrance of thousands and thousands of individuals,” she continued. “We had been filming each day, we had thousands and thousands of eyes us and I used to be trapped in myself, inside myself. After I realized that this was a possibility for me … I’ve to look inside myself. And the second I began doing that and actually therapeutic inside myself, I spotted, wow, ‘He did this for me. He took one for the group,'” she added.

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The place They Stand Now
Paiz goes on to confess that she is now “happier” than she has ever been. As for the place she stands with McBroom now, she mentioned, “I really like him.”
“I imply, I nonetheless take a look at him within the eye,” she continued. “And that is one factor I spotted too in life is, when you’ve gotten youngsters with somebody, you go in a unique route with that particular person. You must learn to love them otherwise now. I’ve needed to study to like him as a father of my youngsters.”
“If something, I take care of him extra now. He would not know this, however I fear about him,” she mentioned. “Folks at all times wish to choose a aspect, like, I am Crew This, I am Crew That and it is like, that is not the true world. The entire world wants a bunch hug!”
She referred to McBroom as her “largest trainer” and mentioned she is going to “at all times care” about him it doesn’t matter what. “I am simply glad that I used to be in a position to transfer previous that a part of my previous after which create one thing lovely out of it,” she added.
For the reason that launch of her memoir, McBroom has pushed again at a few of her accounts — like saying she “knew what (he) was coping with” earlier than dishonest — Paiz shared she did not discover that as a shock.
“That was my first time … sharing my hardships in my marriage,” she recalled. “It was my first time actually getting it on the market to the world … There have been issues that I did not even share with my household. I did not share with my mother, my greatest buddy or my dad … I knew that he would discredit issues, in fact. I simply felt it as a result of I do know him.”
Paiz discovered that the previous couple had been talking extra previous to the memoir being launched nonetheless, she has since discovered to place boundaries in place for herself.
“We communicate fairly typically,” she instructed TooFab solely. “I might say we had been most likely extra on speaking phrases earlier than the e-book got here out.”
“However I’ve to set boundaries,” she continued. “As a result of one factor about me is I am very open and I at all times need everybody to be completely satisfied. I at all times put everybody first. And for me, it was placing my children first at all times so, my ex-husband, he’d come to my home unannounced … and so I’ve actually needed to learn to set boundaries.”

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The Future For Catherine
Trying forward, Paiz is having fun with residing within the current. She lately confirmed on the Name Her Daddy podcast her ayahuasca use after occurring a retreat to Brazil. It is there she additionally met her now boyfriend, Igor Ten, who she mentioned makes her really feel “secure.”
“I am simply very completely satisfied proper now,” she mentioned. “He is an unimaginable soul, unimaginable particular person. He is affected person. He is nurturing. He is simply very secure. He is only a very, very secure, trustworthy particular person, only a actually good particular person.”
“I do not know what the longer term holds. However I do know that I am residing within the current and yeah … I am simply actually completely satisfied,” she added.
McBroom has additionally moved on with influencer, Alexa Mal, who has been seen in his social media posts.
Watch extra of our interview with Paiz beneath, the place she mentioned her memoir and why she determined to have faux names as her followers proceed guess who’s who.
Dolores: My Journey Residence is offered on Spotify Premium as a part of 15 hours of free listening along with your present subscription, or wherever you hearken to audiobooks.
