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Former NFL quarterback and reality show superstar Jay Cutler fired back at his ex-wife Kristin Cavallari’s claim that she didn’t get “a penny” in their 2020 divorce. Cavallari made this claim during a June episode of Honestly Cavallari: The Headline Tour – a live tour of her Let’s Be Honest podcast.
“Our revenue is close to $50 million a year, but because I was obviously a WAG — athletes’ wives and girlfriends, if you’re not familiar — people love to say that everything I have in my life is because of my ex-husband, and that my ex-husband funded Uncommon James,” Cavallari said. “But I am, to this day, 100% owner, and I’ve never taken any outside funding.”
Cavallari added: “I have never gotten a penny from my ex-husband. I didn’t get any money from our divorce, so let’s just clear that up.”
Jay Cutler’s representatives were asked to comment at the time on Cavallari’s comments by People magazine, but didn’t respond. This week, however, Smokin’ Jay Cutler himself did address her comments on the Take It Outside podcast.
Jay Cutler addresses his ex-wife’s claim
“I mean, let’s think about this logically,” Cutler said on the show. “‘Not a penny,’ Okay. Married for, I don’t know, seven years or so, three kids. You can go and see how much I made in the NFL. It’s online. You can see the contract from year to year and the total amount at the end of 12 years. So, you go to divorce and each side gets a lawyer and then you go to court and there’s a judge.”
For the record, Jay Cutler earned $122,196,087 over his 12-year NFL career. Kristin Cavallari reportedly has a net worth of around $30 million.
“So, you go to divorce and each side gets a lawyer and then you go to court and there’s a judge. In the state of Tennessee, if we would have went to the judge and been like, ‘Hey, he’s going to keep every single dollar over the past seven years and you’re going to get nothing.’ There’s not a judge in the state of Tennessee that would have signed that. They would be like, ‘No, this isn’t right. This isn’t legal. Not happening.’ So, there’s that.”
Cutler then added, “Is her lawyer really going to be like, ‘Fine, you get zero dollars. He gets to keep all the money that was made over the seven years.” Absolutely not. That’s That’s completely false.”
How much did he pay in the settlement?
He then said that the dollar amount that ended up being settled upon between him and Kristin Cavallari was “a very big number” and she got to keep her company “which was also a marital asset because it was created during the marriage.”
“It’s irresponsible,” Cutler continued. “I think it’s reckless. I think it’s borderline slander to insinuate that there was zero dollars split during the marriage that each side got. It’s insanity. And it’s completely false, completely, completely untrue. It is. It just is.
“I’ve got a divorce decree. I’ve got something that’s signed by the judge. It’s like 67 pages or something, says exactly, says the number breakdown. I’m not going to get into those exact numbers, but I can guarantee you it’s definitely not zero.”
Jay Cutler then said, without getting into specifics, that the amount of money he paid was “without an absolute doubt” enough for his ex-wife to live “very comfortably” on for the rest of her life. He also lamented that it should have been “completely unnecessary” for him to “even have to address it.”