Jana Kramer reveals she 'shattered' a pantry door when she finally decided to leave ex Mike Caussin after he cheated on her with more than 13 women
- Jana Kramer revealed on "Red Table Talk" that ex Mike Caussin cheated on her with more than 13 women.
- She said she and her friends "took a bat" to a pantry door Caussin designed when she left him.
"One Tree Hill" star and singer Jana Kramer recently revealed the extent of her ex-husband Mike Caussin's infidelity and how she dealt with her intense emotions when she finally decided to leave him.
On Wednesday's "Red Table Talk," she revealed to hosts Jada Pinkett Smith, Adrienne Banfield Norris, and their guest co-host Sheree Zampino that the former NFL player cheated on her with more than 13 women. When Zampino said she imagined Kramer was "mad as hell" at Caussin, Kramer painted a picture of just how mad she got.
"I shattered so many things in my house," she said with a laugh.
One of the things Kramer broke was a pantry door that Caussin had designed, explaining that she and her friends "took a bat to it" and "just shattered it." Kramer said she also "destroyed" all of Caussin's gaming systems, which he told her were his "only vice."
"I went real crazy for a minute," she added.
Kramer and Caussin began dating in 2014 and were married by May 2015, People reported. On "Red Table Talk," the actor said that Caussin began cheating on her well before they said their vows, as early as one month into dating. But she said she was in her 30s at the time and wanted to start a family. She had cheated in previous relationships, so she knew mistakes happened and forgave him.
The couple welcomed their first child, Jolie Rae, in January 2016. Kramer told the "Red Table Talk" hosts that a friend of hers suggested Caussin might be cheating on her again when Jolie was just four months old. She looked at the phone bill and called numbers she didn't recognize to confirm that it was indeed true.
Kramer explained that she forgave Caussin's indiscretions multiple times throughout their marriage because she came from a "broken family."
"My whole thing was, 'I do not want my children to grow up in a broken house," she told Smith, Banfield Norris, and Zampino. "I hated Christmas because I had to separate Christmas and that was stressful and I want my kids under one roof. And the thought of another woman raising my child was like, 'it ain't gonna happen.'"
In August 2016, the couple separated so that Caussin could enter treatment for an undisclosed reason that was later revealed to be sex addiction, People reported. When he left treatment, they continued working on their marriage and welcomed a son, Jace Joseph, in November 2018.
They were honest about their struggles on their podcast, then called "Whine Down with Jana Kramer and Mike Caussin." And in 2020, they co-authored a relationship self-help book sharing stories about how they overcame their issues. But Kramer said she now knows that some of what Caussin wrote in the book is a lie.
"There's a chapter in there where he 1,000 percent didn't tell the truth of what he was actually doing," she said.
Months before Kramer officially filed for divorce from Caussin in April 2021, she said he lied to her and their podcast listeners when she talked about receiving a direct message from someone claiming Caussin had a second phone and was cheating on her. Kramer said on "Red Table Talk" that his private betrayal, while they were supposedly being so honest about their relationship in public, made her feel like "an idiot."
"But he says the podcast was a catalyst for more of his cheating, because it made him feel like he always had the spotlight on him," Kramer said.