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Gina Kirschenheiterhas been arrested for allegedly driving under the influence, PEOPLE confirms.
The Long Island native, who made her debut onThe Real Housewives of Orange Countyin the summer of 2018, was arrested early Thursday at 12:20 a.m. in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, a representative for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department tells PEOPLE.
She was stopped for a traffic violation and arrested for driving under the influence, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. Gina, 34, was released on Friday at 12 p.m.
The Blastfirst reported the news.
Last April, Gina filed for divorce from her husband, Matthew Kirschenheiter.
“All of a sudden, it all collided,” she said.
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The couple met before they graduated college and had been together for 11 years and married for eight. They share three kids — sons Nicholas, 6, and Luca, 3, and daughter Sienna, 4.
The reality star admitted that the pair simply grew apart.
“It’s a huge, huge decision — one of the biggest ever — and I was 23 years old?” she said. “I wasn’t ready to make a decision about who I was going to spend the rest of my life with at 23. No wonder! We made it work because we made it work. But I’m a completely different person than I was then.”
“On Long Island, marriage is a community thing,” she added. “Your parents, your in-laws, your siblings, your friends, your family — they’re all a part of your relationship. You don’t think about breaking that up. So when we moved to California, it was like, now you only have each other. And you really have to validate that relationship and say, ‘Are we really functioning and working well? Are you really my soulmate who I want to spend the rest of my life with in that way?’ “
source: people.com
