Tinsley Mortimer wasn’t blindsided by her finance breaking up with her, according to his pals — she just wasn’t taking the hint.
Sources close to Mortimer told us that the former “Real Housewives of New York” star was heartbroken when coupon king Scott Kluth suddenly ended their two-year engagement during a fight last Friday.
But sources in his camp said that Kluth has been “communicating” to the socialite-turned-reality-star that it’s over for months — but that Mortimer just wouldn’t accept it.
“Her perception of when they broke up is clearly different from Scott’s,” said an insider, “but Scott communicated to her that they were broken up months ago.”
On Friday we reported that Tins’ friends were furious because Kluth had gone through an endless cycle of breaking up with her and getting back together with her, but that when he proposed she believed he meant it — so much so that she quit the Bravo show and moved to Chicago with him. But then, they said, he was “suddenly … back to his old tricks again.”
When we ran the idea by Tinsley friends that Kluth had been trying to tell her, they said that if she was confused it was because of the “break-up-and-get-back-together cycle.”
“He would do that and then get back together with her,” they said. “It was ‘we’re together,’ then ‘let’s take some space,’ then ‘we’re not together.’ A real mindf–k.”
Added the pal, “This was the type of pattern he would do to her through the four years they were dating and now that she left her career and basically everything for him, she had no choice but to try and make it work and stick it out with him through this unhealthy pattern.”
As we previously reported, insiders say that the Coupon Cabin founder claimed to dislike the media attention that came with her job, and he gave her an ultimatum near the end of 2019 saying that if she quit the show, he would marry her.
Pals are furious that she agreed to the bargain, only to have Kluth fail to follow through on the proposal.
She was previously married to Topper Mortimer.