Alix Earle talks about her "tough" reunion with Braxton Berrios following their split.
The new normal is still taking Alix Earle some time to adjust to. At the recent Palm Tree Festival in Aspen, Colorado, the TikToker revealed that she saw her ex-boyfriend Braxton Berrios for the first time since their split was announced in early December.
“It was honestly just really hard for me—really weird, really hard,” Alix stated in a TikTok on February 25. “I was really emotional. The first night we were like in the same place, but we didn’t say hi to each other, just because I didn’t want to like go up and annoy him, I don’t know, but I could see him out the corner of my eye.”
She acknowledged that the next evening, she and the NFL player "briefly said hi to each other." However, the brief exchange was sufficient to elicit a variety of feelings.
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“It’s weird when you go from someone being like your best friend to being a stranger in the corner of the room,” Alix, who spent two years dating Braxton, went on. “So that was tough. And by tough, I mean terrible.”
Nevertheless, “it was a really fun weekend overall,” she affirmed, “just being with my friends and my family.”
The 25-year-old also revealed that one way she has been occupying herself throughout her split and in her spare time after finishing Dancing With the Stars in the autumn (Alix and partner Val Chmerkovskiy came second) is by attending to the gym.
“I have just been obsessed with moving my body,” she stated. “I feel like it’s really helping me just feel like I have control of one thing. I just feel a lot healthier when I do it—like my mind feels better, my body feels better.”
Although Alix and Braxton first kept quiet about their split, the influencer later revealed the reasons for her and the Houston Texans wide receiver's split.
“We have been doing long distance since, basically, June and we haven’t gotten to see each other that often,” she stated in a TikTok on December 13. “It’s just been really difficult for me.”
Additionally, she said, "A part of me also really wants to be focusing on myself right now. I just feel like I can’t be what Braxton needs.”
After all, both she and the athlete have hectic schedules.
“I want him to have someone with him 24/7 who can support him and be there for him," she clarified. "And he wasn’t really expecting that of me. I think it was more a me thing, but I constantly felt guilty.”
However, Alix clarified that they parted ways amicably even though they had decided they would be better off alone.
“I love Braxton,” she stated. “He’s my best friend, you know? So, it’s been really difficult as we’re trying to go forward with this.”
“It just kinda feels like we’re on two different paths right now and it sucks,” she remarked. “We’re on good terms and I don’t want anyone to come for him or to be mean to him.”
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