Ned Fulmer is publicly commenting on the backlash he has acquired for filming a podcast together with his ex-wife, Ariel Fulmer, following his infamous dishonest scandal.
“I’ve heard numerous the commentary and reactions to my podcast episode with Ariel and I needed to take this video to handle a few of them,” Ned, 38, stated in a video shared through Instagram on Saturday, November 8.
“That episode with Ariel was principally about her story, and now on this video I’ll inform a bit bit extra of mine. There’s lots that we needed to maintain non-public, however some issues I’ll contact on at this time,” he added, earlier than acknowledging that for followers it was seemingly “a really painful and uncomfortable dialog to observe.”
He continued, “For us, it felt like a crucial step to have the ability to transfer ahead. We knew we might at all times get these form of questions in any context on-line, and it felt like the one strategy to transfer ahead was simply to face it head-on.”
The podcast, which launched in September 2025, marks Fulmer’s first foray again to the web since his 2022 dishonest scandal with worker Alexandria Herring. Fulmer, who was referred to as the “spouse man” on his unique “Strive Guys” podcast, had been married for 10 years earlier than information broke in September 2022 that he was untrue.
“Household ought to have at all times been my precedence, however I misplaced focus and had a consensual office relationship,” the web persona wrote in an announcement shared through X on the time. “I’m sorry for any ache that my actions could have brought about to the blokes and the followers, however most of all to [my wife] Ariel. The one factor that issues proper now’s my marriage and my youngsters, and that’s the place I’m going to focus my consideration.”
Ariel’s look on the podcast sparked backlash from followers, a lot of whom accused Ned of profiting from a painful state of affairs and Ariel’s personal stake within the new podcast to make it profitable.
“She’s a stakeholder within the ‘Rock Backside’ podcast and this new channel, and she or he desires it to achieve success,” Ned stated of his ex Ariel’s involvement within the podcast, explaining that it was truly her thought. “In order that was a part of the rationale why by way of having that dialog we did it collectively slightly than on some other platform. We knew it will draw numerous consideration and I do know that a few of you have got solely seen 15-second clips of me placing my foot in my mouth, however I hope for people who watched the complete hour that you just took one thing away from it.”
Ned reiterated that clips on TikTok are “one small snippet of an hour-long dialog of three years of attempting to work by way of this,” and detailed the “intensive program of remedy, group remedy, and work” he has launched into because the scandal got here to mild.
“This concerned numerous going through rationalizations, denials, minimizations, all of those psychological clouds that enable you to proceed conduct that you already know is hurtful, and you continue to do it anyhow,” he defined. “So it let me face the reality and acknowledge in no unsure phrases that I cheated on my spouse with an worker of my enterprise, and it brought about her immense ache and shattered our marriage and in addition brought about numerous ache to numerous different folks. These had been my egocentric actions and my selections.”
Becky Miller, Keith Habersberger, Ned and Ariel Fulmer Ethan Miller/Getty Photographs
The podcast host emphasised that he has hung out looking for to “perceive the patterns of conduct that led to this” and that this included “inside household programs and components work” in addition to a 12-step program.
“By way of my relationship with Ariel, it began as a therapeutic separation after which from there I ready a disclosure doc that answered all of her questions and volunteered for a lie detector take a look at to then, in a therapeutic setting, convey that data to her in order that we may construct one thing new on the identical web page of realizing precisely all the things that occurred. It is a well-known therapeutic approach for folks attempting to recuperate from betrayal trauma,” he continued. “Talking of betrayal trauma, that could be a phrase that I realized. The thought of betrayal trauma and integrity abuse and these methods which can be programs and language for understanding the ache and why retaining secrets and techniques like that, particularly of a sexual nature, will be so damaging to your partnership. So these had been issues that I realized about and continued to follow every day in terms of saying what I imply and doing what I say and once I make a mistake instantly correcting it to … hold my sense of integrity intact.”
Ned additionally stated he and Ariel have been working by way of this course of for 2 years, and that he’ll proceed to do the mandatory work. He additionally requested viewers to chorus from the impulse to “simply decide me off of 1 clip of me speaking about society, which clearly was not the perfect response to that state of affairs” however added that if they have to, “you might be welcome to do this.”
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“Shifting ahead, I actually consider within the mission of the ‘Rock Backside’ podcast to foster conversations with empathy and curiosity,” he added towards the tip of the video. “It stems from numerous that group remedy work, seeing how a lot somebody sharing how they’re addressing the wreckage of their life that they brought about, and the way they’re overcoming a problem can actually be a catalyst for therapeutic.”
Within the first episode of the “Rock Backside” podcast, Ariel shared that she has not forgiven Ned and won’t, and in addition that whereas the pair are coparents to their youngsters (they share sons Wesley and Finn), they’re now not romantically concerned with each other.
