Craig Conover Froze His Sperm Months Before Paige DeSorbo Breakup, Which She Called the ‘Craziest Thing in the World’

Craig Conover took steps towards starting a family with Paige DeSorbo months before their breakup.

In the Jan. 2 episode of Southern Charm, Craig, 35, told his friends Austen Kroll and Shep Rose that since he and Paige, 32, planned to wait three to four years to have kids, they decided to freeze his sperm — and he went to the sperm bank the day before to take care of that.

“I would be remiss to not say that becoming a dad is like, probably like, a, whatever it’s called when it has to happen in my future,” Craig explained to Austen, 37, and Shep, 45.

In a flashback, Craig told Paige about his thought to freeze his sperm, to which she replied, “What the f—? That’s like the craziest thing in the world.”

“The version of life that I saw myself living isn’t what I’m living, which is like this stable home that I grew up in,” Craig explains in an on-camera interview. “Every night at dinner, my mom and dad were there and my brother. And I just loved that. But I think if you find the right person and they happen to be a feisty Italian from New York, things aren’t always going to go how you have them planned.”

Austen asked Craig whether he came up with the timeline for starting a family, or if Paige did.

“She did, and then it made sense to me,” Craig said. “Without any influence from Paige, yes, I’d be, like, alright, you date for a little while, then you get married, then you have kids. We’re going to do that one day, but why don’t we just try and make as much money as possible now?”

Craig assured Austen that he still definitely wanted to become a dad one day and that it didn’t need to happen at that exact moment in time.

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Still, “I’m not entirely sold that Craig wants exactly what Paige wants,” Austen told the cameras.

On Dec. 30, Paige revealed on her Giggly Squad podcast that she and Craig “have decided to no longer be together” after three years as a couple, though she did not cite an exact reason for the split.

Later in the Jan. 2 episode, Craig FaceTimed Paige to talk about his plans for renovating the front room over the garage of his house. He expressed interest in turning it into a “multifunctional room where I can craft.”

“Don’t worry about me, you do what you want in that room,” Paige said to Craig.

Craig said he wanted to make space to use his Circuit and embroidery machines and asked Paige if she’d like to dedicate a corner of the room to something of her choosing, such as a gift-wrapping area.

“What the f—? No,” the Summer House star said in response to that idea.

At the end of the episode, Craig spoke to Austen about not being invited to Patricia Altschul’s 83rd birthday party.

“It was like a combination of like, thinking that you were out of town and being like, ‘I haven’t, you know, really talked to Craig much,’” the Trop Hop beer founder said.

Craig didn’t expect to hear that. “I didn’t know this s— was going on,” he told Austen. “I thought we were good.”

Austen said he missed his friend and that when they tried to set up a weekly tee time to golf together, the Sewing Down South founder shut it down in favor of gardening.

“That’s the fun stuff for me now: making money, getting healthy and f—ing my girlfriend. Like, that’s what I want to do,” Craig said to Austen, citing the gardening as a work obligation because of his brand’s upcoming gardening line. “If you’re a real friend you would be happy for something like that.”

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Austen replied, “I was so worried that that was how you were going to take it.”

Southern Charm airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.