What’s Going On With Ryan Lochte and His Ex-Wife?
Over the weekend, Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte hard-launched a new girlfriend less than four months after his wife, Kayla Rae Reid (formerly known as Kayla Lochte), filed for divorce. Lochte posted a dump of his “Daytona Beach weekend!” to Instagram on Monday, including several selfies of him cuddled up with his new significant other, Molly Gillihan, and a video of some Fourth of July fireworks that really should come with a trigger warning. Everyone seems happy, right? Well, maybe not.
Reid, who filed for divorce from Lochte in March after seven years of marriage, described their marriage as “irretrievably broken” in court documents, per TMZ. Lochte wrote in an Instagram post that he and Reid were taking the “right step towards peace and well-being” for the whole family. Pretty par for the course as far as celebrity divorces go, but last month an anonymous source claimed in People that infidelity had played a role in the couple’s breakup. A few weeks later, Reid hinted on Instagram that their separation was messier than it appeared. “Sometimes God allows the betrayal … because it leads to the breakthrough,” she wrote over a grinning selfie.
You know who’s having none of this “betrayal” talk? Lochte’s new girlfriend, Gillihan. “It’s okay to be so happy that your heart could explode out of your chest and you want to shout it from the rooftops,” Gillihan wrote on her private Instagram account on Monday, according to TMZ Sports. “If you’ve felt it, you know this to be true.”
“We would not be here if we had anything to hide or if there had been any betrayal that occurred along the way,” she continued. “This little goofball came into my life patiently, sincerely, and honestly. I am choosing him. ♥️ @ryanlochte.”
So Gillihan’s subtweeting Reid, Reid’s subtweeting Lochte, and Lochte is … really excited about fireworks. Glad at least one person is this situation appears to be unfazed.
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