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Red Flag Laws: Flip or Flop star says he wasn't suicidal when cops seized guns :: 04/21/2018
“Flip or Flop” star Tarek El Moussa insists he wasn’t suicidal when he stormed out of his family home with guns in May 2016.
During the incident, Tarek, 36, exited the family home he shared with wife Christina, who was reportedly in the house with contractor Gary Anderson, who she’d go on to date briefly after splitting from Tarek.
“That was a huge misunderstanding on her part, not my part,” Tarek told “Dr. Oz” on an episode airing Friday. “I had bought two mountain bikes. I sent my neighbor a text. I said, ‘Can I borrow your bikes, because I want to go scout trails.’ He wasn’t home.”
“I have a CCW, California Concealed Carry, which means I can legally carry a firearm. I live in the canyons, where there’s wildlife and bobcats and mountain lions, and I literally went on a hike,” he continued.
“The next thing I know, there’s a sheriff’s helicopter circling and I’m like, ‘Geez, what are these guys doing?’ and I’m like, ‘They must be looking for somebody bad,’” he recalled. “Then I realize, ‘Well, wait a minute he was looking for me!’ And next thing I know I see 11 [sheriff’s deputies] around me and off-road vehicles and guns on me. I’m like, ‘Wait, am I the guy? I think I’m the guy. What did I do?’ That’s what happened that day.”
“I literally I have the text to prove [I was just going hiking],” he added. “I showed the police. They’re, like, ‘I’m sorry, man.’ ”
Tarek explained, “I literally was trying to scout trails. I had just bought a mountain bike so I went on a hike. Sure, I was having a rough day, and I was trying to blow off steam, and that’s what I did. So it was a surreal experience. It was like my life was in slow motion, my life paused for a moment, and it was like I was living a movie.”
Tarek and Christina, who share daughter Taylor and son Brayden, separated following the incident.
The pair finalized their divorce in January 2018.
https://pagesix.com/2018/04/20/flip-or-flop-star-says-he-wasnt-suicidal-when-cops-seized-guns/