Jeff Lewisis hoping 2020 brings a reconciliation with his formerFlipping Outcostar,Jenni Pulos.
On Monday, the interior designer and house flipper revealed on his SiriusXM radio showJeff LewisLivethat he had extended an apology to Pulos, in an attempt to make amends for their messy friendship fallout.
“What I wrote to her is, ‘Hi, Happy New Year. I hope you and your family are happy and healthy. Would you be open to meeting with me sometime?’ ” Lewis said. “‘I don’t feel good about what happened between us and I’m very sorry for my role in it.’ ”
Lewis later explained that he wanted the message to lead to an in-person meeting. “I’m hoping that she gets back to me,” said Lewis. “I would love to sit down and talk to her.”
And while he was going into the conversation hopeful the two could bury the hatchet, Lewis said he was open to whatever Pulos wanted to make of it.
“I don’t expect anything in return from her,” Lewis said. “I plan on clearing my conscience and telling her everything that I’m sorry for, but I’m not going to do it and be like, ‘Well what are you sorry for?’ That should happen in her own time. Or not!”
“[We have a] long, long history together,” Lewis added. “She’s like my sister. We live basically in the same neighborhood. I know I’m going to run into her some day, I don’t want it to be awkward. I have no expectations attached to this. I just don’t want it to be uncomfortable if I run into her.”
A representative for Pulos did not immediately reply to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Jeff Lewis and Jenni Pulos.David Livingston/Getty
Lewis, 49, and Pulos, 47, were friends for nearly 20 years before they got into an argument while filming season 11 ofFlipping Outin which Pulos lamented that her job at Lewis’s design firm,Jeff LewisDesign was keeping her from the acting career she always wanted.
Previously, Lewis has said that meeting was the last time he and Pulos have spoken.
Lewis also accused Pulos of making complaints about him to Bravo HR, an accusation which she vehemently denied to PEOPLE.
Pulos opened up about the riftfor the first time last November, saying that she was blindsided when he fired her. “I had no idea it was coming,” she said.
Pulos went on to say during an appearance onWatch What Happens Live withAndy Cohenthat same month that the ending of her relationship with Lewis was especially difficult because of their longtime close ties (Pulos — whoshares daughters Alianna, 6, and Georgia, 2, with husband Dr. Jonathan Nassos, is also the godmother toLewis’ daughter Monroe, 3).
“The whole thing is wild and completely unexpected,” Pulos said. “I have loved him like a brother and I always will. I wish him and [Monroe] the best and their family and his father. They’ve been a big part of my life for a long time.”
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Elsewhere on Monday’sJeff LewisLive, Lewis explained why it took him so long to contact Pulos.
“I’ve thought about it for months, reaching out,” Lewis said. “I think I’m a good apologizer. Only because, I wait until I’m actually really sorry. Like, if you’re forcing me to apologize right now for something I just don’t feel like I should apologize for, I’m not going to be a very good apologizer. Sometimes it takes me weeks, months, a year to really reflect and realize what my role was in something. And I feel like it took many, many months . . . maybe because we had such a deep, loving relationship, Jenni and I, that there was a lot of hurt. I think it took me a very, very long time to really take a look and think, ‘What did you do, Jeff? Why did she react this way? What did I say?’ ”
“So I finally realized that it was time,” Lewis added. “It was a new year and I’m going to reach out and I’m just going to put it out on the line.”
Lewis first teased a possible attempt to reconcile with Pulos back in December, during an appearance onAndy Cohen‘s SiriusXM show.
“I do believe there will be a reconciliation with Jenni, and the reason I know that is because the person who cuts my hair cuts Jenni’s hair and I’ve been hearing things through her,” Lewis said. “Like, she’s ready to accept a phone call.”
“I do apologize for my role, absolutely,” Lewis added. “I know what I did. … I think a reconciliation is inevitable.”
If Lewis does make up with Pulos, she’ll be the secondFlipping Outstar with whom he found peace after a fight. He and his former housekeeper,Zoila Chavez, hadrepaired their bond back in October.
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source: people.com
