The Summer House Season 10 finale illustrated just how far exes Lindsay Hubbard and Carl Radke have come since calling off their engagement in 2023.
As the cast’s après-ski party got underway in Episode 16, Lindsay decided to pull Carl aside for an emotional chat in a backyard igloo. “If I’m, like, super honest with myself, I buried a lot of things down after the breakup,” Lindsay explained in a confessional, before referencing her recent run-in with Carl’s mom, Sharon Radke, at his Soft Bar opening.
“This whole Sharon debacle at Soft Bar, like, brought it back to the surface,” she added. “And I realized maybe I do need closure. And I also, like, know that I can’t leave it up to Carl because he, like, faints around me. Remember that one time he fainted the night before he was proposing?”
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As Lindsay told Carl directly, “I just wanted to talk because the last couple of days brought up a lot of feelings and emotions for me, not necessarily about our relationship, but our friendship. Last night, especially.”
Carl interjected to thank Lindsay for “helping to calm the situation” between him and Kyle Cooke the previous evening, expressing how “it meant a lot to him,” especially given the trio’s history.Â
After sharing her reason for intervening amid their fight, Lindsay continued, “It brought up all of these feelings, and then on Wednesday at your Soft Bar opening, your mom came up to me and was, like, asking me for a bunch of hugs and then asking me a bunch of questions about Gemma. And I was very uncomfortable. Like, I was pretty rattled, honestly.”
Inside Lindsay Hubbard and Carl Radke’s heart-to-heart in the Summer House Season 10 finale
Once Lindsay revealed her reason for requesting the one-on-one with Carl, she delved more deeply into her awkward interaction with his mother. As Carl’s ex-fiancee pointed out, she’d not spoken to his mom since their breakup and felt as though Sharon was “glossing over everything that’s ever happened.”
Carl, for his part, referred to his mother’s behavior as “confusing as hell,” but countered that he didn’t think she “clocked it as such in the moment.”
“Yeah, but that’s kind of the problem,” Lindsay replied. “No clocking is going on. When we did break up, I didn’t hear from your mom for about a month. I had, like, weathered the storm already. And then, two months later, your mom is partying and celebrating, basically dancing on the grave of our relationship, in Mexico. That, to me, was one of the most public slaps in the face outside of the very public breakup.”
She continued, “Part of me was waiting for you to say, ‘You know what, Linds, I want to just talk to you one-on-one and figure out, like, what went down when we broke up.’ And you never did. Everything just fell apart, like two months before our wedding. So that, to me, was like shattering. Like, how can my best friend of eight years treat me like this? I thought that our friendship went beyond the TV show. I thought that, like, you would’ve come to me first and said, ‘I’m honestly having, like, second thoughts. I think we need to postpone our wedding.'”
Carl’s response? “I totally understand and, like, it pains me to think that that’s… When you really look at it like that, it’s f–kin’ f–ked up. And I’m really sorry.”
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Carl went on to tearfully reminisce about all of the “good memories” they’d shared and how they were finally “able to laugh a little bit” together that summer. Then he took some more responsibility for their strained post-split dynamic.
“I just didn’t handle any of that situation well at all,” Carl conceded. “And [you’re] the last person that I ever should’ve been like that to. You’ve helped me in a lot of ways in my life. And I probably wouldn’t be where I am today without the way you were with me, and just pushing me and guiding me at a really difficult time in my life. You made me a better person, and I’m forever grateful for that. I just can’t believe that it took two years and you actually going, ‘Hey dude, what the f–k?'”
Lindsay Hubbard and Carl Radke share takeaways from their conversation
Before wrapping up their chat and returning to the cast’s last party of the summer, Carl expressed to Lindsay that he was “so glad” she asked him to sit down and talk. “I learned a lot right now,” he remarked. “Thank you, and I’m sorry.”
Later, when Lindsay’s best friend and In The City castmate, Yvonne Najor, asked Carl how his night had been, he shared, “It’s been transformational. It was good. I needed to have some conversations that I haven’t had in a long time. It was one little step in the right direction today, so… it was good.”
Lindsay, meanwhile, gave Kyle a similar assessment, describing her talk with Carl as “good,” before joking that she knew she wanted to sit down with him in the igloo as soon as she spotted Kyle putting it together.
While giving a final end-of-summer toast the next morning, Lindsay even shouted out the fact that she and Carl had finally talked amid her reflections on the season’s high points.
As you await the Summer House Season 10 reunion, find out where Carl and Lindsay’s friendship stands today.
