Alexia Nepola and Todd Nepola. Jason Koerner/Getty Pictures
The Actual Housewives of Miami star Alexia Nepola is reeling after her estranged husband, Todd Nepola, filed for divorce on Thursday, April 11.
“Everyone seems to be shocked. It’s very shocking,” a supply solely tells Us Weekly. “Alexia loves exhausting. She is all about love, she is romantic in that respect. She is hurting proper now.”
The insider provides that Alexia, 56, “loves Todd and is devastated” by the cut up. “All of it got here as a shock,” the supply says.
A second supply tells Us that Alexia was “blindsided” by Todd’s submitting.
“Issues have been good between her and Todd days main up [to] him submitting. She had no concept and there have been no indicators,” the insider shares. “Alexia believes he needed to maintain her at midnight about how he was feeling about ending the wedding, as a result of he knew she would try to persuade him in any other case.”
The supply provides that Alexia, who shares sons Peter, 31, and Frankie, 26, with ex-husband Peter Rosello Sr., thinks the cut up “has so much to do together with her sons” and their dynamic as a household. “Peter tried to warn her about him,” the insider says.
Alexia and Todd, 51, tied the knot in 2021 after a number of years of courting. Whereas Todd has but to publicly tackle the cut up, Alexia reacted through her Instagram Story on Monday, April 15.
“I’m shocked and heartbroken that Todd has chosen to dissolve our marriage,” she wrote. “I’ll take consolation in the truth that my family and friends will likely be by my facet supporting me throughout this troublesome time.”
Alexia beforehand gushed about Todd whereas celebrating Valentine’s Day in February.
“It doesn’t matter what life throws my manner, there’s one factor I might be positive of. … We belong collectively,” she captioned an Instagram photograph of Todd kissing her on the cheek “You’ll all the time be my Valentine 🐢🐢 I really like you without end ❤️❤️.”
Alexia isn’t the one one who didn’t see the divorce submitting coming. Her RHOM costar Marysol Patton voiced her shock throughout a Monday look on her iHeartRadio “Ay Por Favor” podcast.
“What can I say? I’m fully taken without warning. I imply, I didn’t see this coming. It rips my coronary heart aside as a result of I can solely put myself in her sneakers and know the way exhausting this have to be for her,” Marysol, 57, stated.
Though their cut up got here as a shock, Alexia and Todd’s relationship was a supply of controversy throughout season 6 of RHOM, which premiered in November 2023. After her costar Adriana de Moura claimed that the duo have been experiencing monetary issues, Alexia shut down the rumors in the course of the season 6 reunion earlier this 12 months.
“I don’t admire that simply because I’m renting and I occur to have to maneuver out as a result of they bought our unit, that I’m having monetary issues,” she stated. “I’m married to a good businessman that has his personal enterprise.”
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Alexia was beforehand married to Rosello, who was one of many topics of Netflix’s Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami, from 1992 to 1996. She went on to marry Herman Echevarria in 2004. The pair separated in 2015, previous to Echevarria’s sudden dying at age 61 in September 2016.
Alexia in contrast her first two marriages to her relationship with Todd throughout a December 2021 episode of RHOM.
“After the 2 marriages that I’ve had, , I used to be tremendous jaded. I’d actually been married to 2 guys that had been liars. However once I met Todd round 5 years in the past, I knew that he was going to be the one which I used to be going to have the ability to belief,” she stated on the time. “I truthfully actually wish to be married to Todd for the remainder of my life.”
