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Jay Cutler is sharing his side of the story two months after his ex-wife Kristin Cavallari claimed she had “never gotten a penny” from their divorce.
On the latest episode of his Take It Outside podcast, the former NFL quarterback, 42, responded to the reality star’s claims about their finances on Honestly Cavallari: The Headline Tour, on which she alleged Cutler never funded her company, Uncommon James, and noted that she did not receive any money in their divorce.
“Let’s think about this logically. ‘Not a penny,’ OK. Married for, I don’t know, seven years or so, three kids,” Cutler said. “You can go and see how much I made in the NFL. It’s online. You can see the contract from year to year and the total amount at the end of 12 years. So, you go to divorce and each side gets a lawyer and then you go to court and there’s a judge.”
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“In the state of Tennessee, if we would have went to the judge and been like, ‘Hey, he’s going to keep every single dollar over the past seven years and you’re going to get nothing,’” he continued. “There’s not a judge in the state of Tennessee that would have signed that. They would be like, ‘No, this isn’t this isn’t right. This isn’t legal. Not happening.’ So, there’s that. B, she has a lawyer. I have a lawyer. Is her lawyer really going to be like, ‘Fine, you get zero dollars. He gets to keep all the money that was made over the seven years.’ Absolutely not.”
He called the allegations “completely false.”
After referring to Uncommon James as “a marital asset,” the former Chicago Bears player claimed that Cavallari’s allegations were “irresponsible.”
“I think it’s reckless,” he explained. “I think it’s borderline slander to insinuate that there was zero dollars split during the marriage that each side got. It’s insanity. It’s completely false, completely untrue. It is, it just is. I’ve got a divorce decree. I’ve got something that’s signed by the judge — it’s, like, 67 pages — it says the number breakdown.”
“I’m not going to get into those exact numbers, but I can guarantee you it’s definitely not zero dollars,” he added.
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When asked if the amount was total that The Hills alum could live “very comfortably” with, he responded, “Without a doubt.”
Cutler said he found the claims to be “completely unnecessary,” adding, “I hate that I even have to address [them], honestly. It gets to a point where it’s just untrue. Very untrue.”
A representative for Cutler and Cavallari did not immediately return PEOPLE’s request for comment.
In response to Cutler’s allegations, a source close to the former couple’s relationship spoke out, claiming to PEOPLE that this is “a standard gaslighting tactic from a known narcissist.”
“His answer was manipulated into something completely different than what Kristin was initially saying,” the insider claims.
The former couple shares sons Camden, 13, and Jaxon, 11, and daughter Saylor, 9.
Five years after the couple’s split in 2020, Cavallari addressed public speculation about the former NFL quarterback’s involvement in her brand, Uncommon James, during an episode of Honestly Cavallari: The Headline Tour.
“Our revenue is close to $50 million a year, but because I was obviously a WAG — athletes’ wives and girlfriends, if you’re not familiar — people love to say that everything I have in my life is because of my ex-husband, and that my ex-husband funded Uncommon James,” Cavallari shared. “But I am, to this day, 100% owner, and I’ve never taken any outside funding.”
“I have never gotten a penny from my ex-husband,” she claimed. “I didn’t get any money from our divorce, so let’s just clear that up.”
During a conversation with Camille Kostek (who is dating retired New England Patriots player Rob Gronkowski) at her live podcast taping, the host admitted that being a WAG was “a phase of my life that wasn’t my happiest time.”
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“In society, you have to have a man,” Cavallari began. “Then in the WAG world, you have to have a man, but you’re only supposed to be arm candy and really, you have no identity. Football fans love to diminish me and who I am and [say] I was only famous because of Jay. I’m like, what? Okay. I was on TV.”
“Honestly, I’m just so sick of talking about my marriage,” she added. “Men can be praised for staying single and busting their ass in their career. Women deserve the same thing. We should still all be chasing our dreams, whether we’re with a man or not.”
