Jeff Lewis of Flipping Out fame and his ex partner Gage Edward, 36, have finally come to a custody agreement over their daughter Monroe, four.
It has taken 26 months for the exes to agree to split custody of their only child and they also have decided to drop their lawsuits against each other.
The announcement was made by Lewis, 51, on his show Jeff Lewis Live on Wednesday as he said, ‘I think I wrote my last check to my attorney. I think that was it, I think I’m done. Which feels really good.’
Done: Jeff Lewis of Flipping Out fame and his ex partner Gage Edward have finally come to a 50/50 custody agreement over their daughter Monroe, four
Now the exes – who split in February 2019 after being together for 10 years – are at peace as they co-parent, said Lewis: ‘We’ve been getting along really, really well, we’ve been spending a lot of time with her, together.
‘It’s been good, she’s really happy. She’s pretty much giddy when we’re together.’
Their agreement is 50/50 physical and legal custody. There will also be a new schedule for visits that will kick off in June.
‘I have some wonderful news,’ Lewis shared on his show. ‘After 26 months [of negotiations] with Gage Edward Fredenburg — most of it was contentious I would say — we have settled our custody agreement,’ Lewis added.
Peace now: It has taken 26 months for the exes to agree to split custody of their only child and they also have decided to drop their lawsuits against each other
‘His lawsuit against me has dropped. My lawsuit against him has been dropped. And we have come to an agreement about custody.’
And he is comfortable with the arrangement.
‘I’m happy with the schedule. Well, I’m okay with the schedule, I think it’s going to be good for her,’ he said. ‘So it’s going to switch, because we’ve been doing every other day, and now it’s going to be two days over there, two days at my house. And then in order to get the 50/50 we had to do like every other Friday.’
No more legal hassle: The announcement was made by Lewis, 51, on his show Jeff Lewis Live on Wednesday as he said, ‘I think I wrote my last check to my attorney. I think that was it, I think I’m done. Which feels really good.’ Seen in 2018 in NYC
And he will get the little girl every Saturday: ‘When I’m doing the TV show and the radio show I’m going to be really busy during the week, so it’s nice to know that I’ll have Saturday.’
Edward is ‘very happy with the resolution,’ according to People.
‘This is a big relief,’ the source said. ‘He and Jeff are co-parenting very well together, and Gage is looking forward to putting this conflict behind them.’
In February Edward said he and Jeff had started to ‘heal.’
At the moment Jeff seems to be single. In January, Lewis revealed he has broken up with boyfriend Scott Anderson. The real estate speculator and designer revealed on his Sirius XM program that they have split for the fourth time, seemingly for good.
Lewis explained that while he would typically try to fix what’s broken right away, he simply didn’t have the ‘energy’ to fight for the relationship anymore.
Split: Lewis revealed in January he broke up with boyfriend Scott Anderson
Split: The 50-year-old real estate speculator and designer revealed they have split for the fourth time, seemingly for good
He began that the break-up happened while Anderson was waiting for him to finish up some work.
‘He was like, “Can I talk to you?” I sat down and he’s like, “I love you and I’m in love with you but I can’t commit to this relationship,”‘ said Lewis, with a laugh.
‘Then it was followed by a lot of irrational, unorganized thoughts. Almost like he was trying to justify things, but it was very irrational,’ Lewis added.
Waiting: He began that the break-up happened while Anderson was waiting for him to finish up some work
Can’t commit: ‘He was like, “Can I talk to you?” I sat down and he’s like, “I love you and I’m in love with you but I can’t commit to this relationship,”‘ said Lewis, with a laugh
Among these ‘irrational, unorganized thoughts’ were Lewis was working too much, plus, ‘you never go on vacation, your house is so busy, it’s like communal living.’
Lewis responded, ‘Well, we’re in a pandemic, we can’t really vacation right now and even if we weren’t in a pandemic, I just had 2 major surgeries in the last 3.5 months. I’m not really doing that.’
Other complaints were that Lewis’ life was ‘too big,’ and while Lewis typically would try to fix everything right away, he didn’t do that this time.
‘Normally, I jump in, ‘Let’s talk about this, let’s go to therapy.” I have to say, I’m so exhausted from my own stuff I was like, “Okay, I understand,”‘ Lewis said.
First split: The couple’s first split happened in June 2019, but they got back together and went to couple’s counseling
‘I just kind of let him walk out the door. I don’t have the energy to fight for it. This is the fourth time this has happened, I can almost plan it to the calendar,’ Lewis said, adding he was, ‘mad for maybe 48 hours, but now I feel sorry for him.’
Lewis and Anderson started dating in March 2019, just after Lewis had split with Gage.
The couple’s first split happened in June 2019, but they got back together and went to couple’s counseling.
Their second split happened in May 2020, before they reconciled and split again in September 2020 before their fourth and seemingly final split on Thursday.
Lewis admitted that in previous split he, ‘reacted badly’ and at times he ‘made things worse,’ though that was not the case this time.