Southern Charm viewers will be filled in on Austen Kroll’s relationship with Audrey Pratt on season 11.
Us Weekly spoke exclusively to cast members from the Bravo hit ahead of the November 19 premiere, with Austen, 38, addressing his status with Audrey for the first time since he hinted that they were over on Watch What Happens With Live in July.
“What I can say, and what I always will say, is that Audrey is the best kind of person,” Austen began to Us. “She’s the sweetest, she’s the kindest, most thoughtful, and you will see us [on season 11 try to] figure out what our future is going to look like together.”
Austen, who lives in Charleston, and Audrey, who resides in Charlotte, had been navigating long-distance since they started dating in late 2023.
“It’s very difficult. At first, I loved the fact that she lived here and I lived here, and we make an effort to see each other as often as possible, and then it comes to that point where it’s like, ‘We’ve been dating for this long now, who’s moving where and when?’ You’ll see this kind of unfold,” he explained.
Based on what the cast told Us about the season — which includes messy romantic entanglements between Austen, Craig Conover, Salley Carson and newcomers Whit Slagsvol and Charley Manley — things are over with Austen and Audrey. He makes a point to say there is no bad blood.
“I don’t care if it’s a spoiler, Audrey and I never had any sort of, like, ‘damn’ moment that happened to make anything [bad] between us happen,” Austen told Us.
That doesn’t mean their relationship won’t be talked about, however. In the season 11 trailer, there’s a moment where Craig and Shep are seen talking about a rumor that Austen was unfaithful, something he denies and calls “extremely disappointing” to see Craig have repeated.
“Man, if I didn’t hear things — not like unfaithfulness, per se, between him and [his ex] Paige [DeSorbo] — I never fed into any of that stuff, because that is a line crosser,” Austen said, hinting that cast members like Shep and Whitney Sudler-Smith would attempt to talk about Paige and Craig. “I never was the one who was pointing fingers at a rocky relationship between him and Paige, so to see him more than willing to offer this up is … was disappointing as hell to see. I was nothing but a supporter and never fed into the outside noise that I heard about him. You’ll definitely see that disappointment in me in the aftermath of said scene.”
Craig, for his part, described his relationship with Austen this season as “turbulent” — but all three of Southern Charm’s leading men aren’t quitting each other just yet.
“We just butt heads, and you’ll get to follow along as we continue to try to figure out what our path forward is, and it transcends the show and the cameras,” Craig said. “We don’t quit each other. The Housewives may just walk away — we don’t. And I hope you get to see some of the fun moments this year too.”
Southern Charm returns to Bravo on Wednesday, November 19, at 9 p.m. ET.
Heather Gay claimed her ex-co-star Monica Garcia now owes her $60,000. Monica clapped back and shared more details behind their legal drama, two years after Heather’s company sued her.
In November 2024, a judge reportedly ordered that Monica pay $35,853.60 to Heather’s med spa, Beauty Lab + Laser, where Monica had injections she failed to pay for. Heather and Monica co-starred on Real Housewives of Salt Lake City for one season before Monica exited the show.
On Housewives Nightcap, Heather was asked if Monica ever paid the $35,000.
“No, and it’s now upwards of I think like [$60,000], and it just grows every day,” Heather answered. “But we have a summary judgment and … eventually we’ll get paid. But it’s important to pay your bills.”
The host added, “I would imagine you would never want to film with her again.”
Heather responded, “She’s not my friend, and she’s not in my life, and she’s certainly not a customer of Beauty Lab. So I don’t know how I would.”
After Heather’s interview, Monica shared her thoughts.
“There are multiple things at play here. First and foremost, I just want to clear this up because this is important — the bill with Beauty Lab and Laser was never $35,000,” said Monica on Carlos King‘s Reality with The King podcast. “People are getting this confused, and I obviously have heard [Heather’s] interview. I had several people send it to me. And they’re getting that confused, like how does someone get $35,000 worth of Botox? You don’t. I didn’t. The bill was $2,000.”
“This is literally all stemming from $2,000. The $35,000 number is what she is saying with lawyers’ fees and all this kind of [stuff] — that’s the number she’s asking for,” Monica added. “That is not the bill. The bill was $2,000 of that $35,000 total. The rest — you know, $33,000, whatever — is lawyers’ fees and whatever.”
Last November, the U.S. Sun reported on the judgment.
“Plaintiff is entitled to recover all future collection costs, court costs, and attorney’s fees incurred in enforcing and collecting this judgment,” said the filing.
Monica’s lawyer, Larry Reed, commented at the time, “The amount of fees sought by plaintiff is greatly excessive in view of the amount in dispute in this action … [the principal amount was] only 13% of the Small Claims limit of $15,000. … An appeal will be filed. We are confident.”