Thomas Ravenel’s relationship with girlfriend Ashley Jacobs is on the rocks in Thursday night’s episode ofSouthern Charm.
Ravenel and Jacobs seem to have hit a rough patch in their relationship. Afterexplosive fightsbetween Jacobs and Ravenel’s exKathryn Dennis, the couple get a much-needed break from one another when Jacobs travels home to California for a week.
“Ashley is still back in California, and we did not leave things in a good place,” Ravenel says. “There are things about Ashley that I find fault with. She sometimes can be a little controlling, but then, I’m not the easiest guy to live with. At the end of the day I do want a partner in the business of life.”
Feeling optimistic about their future, Ravenel, 55, enlists friend Whitney Sudler-Smith to help him pick out a ring (not an engagement ring, he wants to be clear!) to gift Jacobs. Naturally, Whitney is a bit hesitant.
“Whatever Thomas does, does not make sense,” Sudler-Smith says in an interview. “He’s hot one minute, cold the next. It would take a squadron of psychoanalysts to figure out his relationship.”
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Ravenel explains that one of the things he loves about Jacobs is that she earned the approval of his extended family. But when Sudler-Smith point-blank asks Ravenel if he plans to marry Jacobs, the reality star admits he’s unsure of what their future holds.
“I don’t want to send her a false signal,” Ravenel says of buying a ring.
But once Jacobs arrives back from California, Ravenel realizes that the trip didn’t help mend their relationship like he had hoped. Both Jacobs and Ravenel admit they’ve been fighting.
“I was hoping that the California sunshine would send Ashley back to Charleston totally refreshed,” he says. “But I’m not sure that things have improved. In fact, they may have regressed.”
Once the couple are at a beer-tasting for cast mate Austen Kroll, Jacobs opens up about her insecurities about the relationship.
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“Thomas and I are struggling,” she says. “Right now I don’t know where I stand. Since I got back from California I feel like he’s been a little bit self-destructive in some ways.”
But Bravo’sAndy Cohenconfirmed on Tuesday night thatJacobs taped the end-of-season specialin New York City.
“It was intensely dramatic, which is why I have droopy everything tonight,” he said on theWatch What Happens Liveafter-show. “And Ashley was there. It was really something.”
Additionally, real estate agent Ashley Perkins has alleged that Ravenel assaulted hermom Debbie Holloway Perkinsafter meeting him on Tinder in October 2015 and going on a last-minute first date.
Ravenel has denied the accusations through his attorney, and a source close to the network told PEOPLE earlier this month that “no decision has been made yet” aboutfiring him fromSouthern Charm.
Southern Charmairs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.
source: people.com
