Ned Fulmer is publicly commenting on the backlash he has obtained for filming a podcast together with his ex-wife, Ariel Fulmer, following his infamous dishonest scandal.
“I've heard a number of the commentary and reactions to my podcast episode with Ariel and I wished to take this video to deal with a few of them,” Ned, 38, mentioned in a video shared via Instagram on Saturday, November 8.
“That episode with Ariel was largely about her story, and now on this video I'll inform just a little bit extra of mine. There's loads that we wished to maintain non-public, however some issues I'll contact on at present,” he added, earlier than acknowledging that for followers it was seemingly “a really painful and uncomfortable dialog to observe.”
He continued, “For us, it felt like a needed step to have the ability to transfer ahead. We knew we might all the time get these form of questions in any context on-line, and it felt like the one method to transfer ahead was simply to face it head-on.”
The podcast, which launched in September 2025, marks Fulmer's first foray again to the web since his 2022 dishonest scandal with worker Alexandria Herring. Fulmer, who was often known as the “spouse man” on his authentic “Strive Guys” podcast, had been married for 10 years earlier than information broke in September 2022 that he was untrue.
“Household ought to have all the time been my precedence, however I misplaced focus and had a consensual office relationship,” the web character wrote in a press release shared through X on the time. “I'm sorry for any ache that my actions could have brought on to the fellows and the followers, however most of all to [my wife] Ariel. The one factor that issues proper now could be my marriage and my youngsters, and that's the place I'm going to focus my consideration.”
Ariel's look on the podcast sparked backlash from followers, a lot of whom accused Ned of making the most of a painful state of affairs and Ariel's personal stake within the new podcast to make it profitable.
“She's a stakeholder within the ‘Rock Backside' podcast and this new channel, and he or she needs it to achieve success,” Ned mentioned of his ex Ariel's involvement within the podcast, explaining that it was really her thought. “In order that was a part of the rationale why when it comes to having that dialog we did it collectively quite than on some other platform. We knew it could draw a number of consideration and I do know that a few of you might have solely seen 15-second clips of me placing my foot in my mouth, however I hope for those who watched the total hour that you just took one thing away from it.”
Ned reiterated that clips on TikTok are “one small snippet of an hour-long dialog of three years of attempting to work by this,” and detailed the “intensive program of remedy, group remedy, and work” he has launched into because the scandal got here to mild.
“This concerned a number of dealing with rationalizations, denials, minimizations, all of those psychological clouds that make it easier to proceed conduct that you realize is hurtful, and you continue to do it anyhow,” he defined. “So it let me face the reality and acknowledge in no unsure phrases that I cheated on my spouse with an worker of my enterprise, and it brought on her immense ache and shattered our marriage and likewise brought on a number of ache to a number of different folks. These had been my egocentric actions and my decisions.”
Becky Miller, Keith Habersberger, Ned and Ariel Fulmer Ethan Miller/Getty Photographs
The podcast host emphasised that he has hung out in search of to “perceive the patterns of conduct that led to this” and that this included “inside household programs and elements work” in addition to a 12-step program.
“By way of my relationship with Ariel, it began as a therapeutic separation after which from there I ready a disclosure doc that answered all of her questions and volunteered for a lie detector take a look at to then, in a therapeutic setting, convey that info to her in order that we might construct one thing new on the identical web page of figuring out precisely every thing that occurred. This can be a well-known therapeutic approach for folks attempting to get well from betrayal trauma,” he continued. “Talking of betrayal trauma, that could be a phrase that I discovered. The concept of betrayal trauma and integrity abuse and these methods which can be programs and language for understanding the ache and why preserving secrets and techniques like that, particularly of a sexual nature, will be so damaging to your partnership. So these had been issues that I discovered about and continued to observe every day relating to saying what I imply and doing what I say and once I make a mistake instantly correcting it to … hold my sense of integrity intact.”
Ned additionally mentioned he and Ariel have been working by this course of for 2 years, and that he'll proceed to do the mandatory work. He additionally requested viewers to chorus from the impulse to “simply decide me off of 1 clip of me speaking about society, which clearly was not the most effective response to that state of affairs” however added that if they need to, “you might be welcome to do this.”
Being clear. Evan Bass and Carly Waddell break up in December 2020 and have been candid about their relationship ever since. The pair first shaped a connection throughout season 3 of Bachelor in Paradise in 2016. Following an on-and-off relationship, Bass and Waddell bought engaged throughout the finale. They bought married in 2017 after they returned […]
“Shifting ahead, I actually consider within the mission of the ‘Rock Backside' podcast to foster conversations with empathy and curiosity,” he added towards the tip of the video. “It stems from a number of that group remedy work, seeing how a lot somebody sharing how they're addressing the wreckage of their life that they brought on, and the way they're overcoming a problem can actually be a catalyst for therapeutic.”
Within the first episode of the “Rock Backside” podcast, Ariel shared that she has not forgiven Ned and won't, and likewise that whereas the pair are coparents to their youngsters (they share sons Wesley and Finn), they're not romantically concerned with each other.
