"There’s no way I’m talking about it without crying," the reality TV personality said during the Thursday, June 18 episode of her podcast, 'Five More Minutes'
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NEED TO KNOW
- Summer House star Dara Levitan confirmed her split from KJ Dillard during the Thursday, June 18, episode of her Five More Minutes podcast
- Her confirmation came after weeks of fan speculation, and their costar Jesse Solomon shared the news on Watch What Happens Live
- The former couple sparked a romance while filming season 10 of the Bravo series in the summer of 2025
Summer House star Dara Levitan confirmed that she and costar KJ Dillard have broken up.
Levitan, 33, revealed the news in a brief moment during the Thursday, June 18 episode of her Five More Minutes podcast. “Do you want to know what's setting me off? Well, I'm single,” she told co-host Carly Rivlin and guest Sean Garrette.
Rivlin quickly replied, "Are we going to talk about it?"
However, Levitan said that would be the extent they'd talk about it. “No, that's all we're going to say about it because I can't do tears this morning, and there's no way I'm talking about it without crying.”
The former couple sparked a romance during season 10 of the hit reality show after being introduced by costar West Wilson.
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Levitan's confirmation comes after weeks of speculation that the couple had split because they unfollowed each other on Instagram. Their Summer House costar Jesse Solomon was the first to share the news during a June 9 appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, Us Weekly reported.
“They broke up, yeah,” Solomon, 33, said. “Last I heard, they were broken up. Sorry if that's not public.”
Days before Solomon confirmed the former couple's breakup, Dillard appeared on costar Carl Radke's podcast, More Life with Carl Radke, and shared that he and Levitan temporarily split in the fall, which coincided with him navigating serious mental health struggles.
Dillard revealed that after Summer House concluded, the couple was "struggling," explaining, "I was taking out what I was going through out on her. I wasn't even aware of it.”
Dillard's June 2 podcast appearance followed the candid discussion of his mental health journey during part one of the Summer House season 10 reunion, which aired on May 26. During the episode, he shared that he had been hospitalized for self-harm and later diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD).
“I actually had to go to the hospital for self-harm,” he said during the reunion. “I was there for a week. Mia [Calabrese] and Ciara [Miller] were there almost every day.”
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After the reunion aired, Dillard spoke to PEOPLE about his BPD diagnosis and treatment, sharing how the diagnosis allowed him to "finally" understand what was going on.
"I needed that because for years I didn't know what was going on with me or why I felt things so deeply," he said at the time.
Since the episode, Dillard said that he's received messages from fans sharing how much his story has impacted them. "People will literally message me and say that I saved their life," he said. "I'm just shocked because I was just speaking my truth. That's all I was doing."
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