'RHOSLC' star Whitney Rose says 'I gave it my all' before filing for divorce

Everyone, of course, was asking us, like, oh my God, you were just with Whitney the night before. Like, how was she? We're like, she looked like she was on top of the world, like feeling her best self, which made us, of course, divorce and separation is heavy and hard, but it made us feel good at least that you seemed like you were in a good place with her. Right. Was it indicative of how you feel about this decision to file for divorce? Like, you feel good about it, right? Yeah. I mean, I'm the one who filed. Right. I made a choice, and you see it play out through the season. It took me a long time to get here. Right. I mean, because even having that conversation with Heather in San Francisco, it seemed like you still didn't know what she wanted to do. It was like you could go one of two ways. And at the end of the conversation, Heather was like, you know, remember how you and Justin decided to make it work last time you were in San Francisco? Hold on to that energy. Was there a part of you that wanted to hold on to the energy and try to make it work? Or do you think you decided? It sounds like you were doing all the work for that. Yeah. No, I definitely wanted it to work. I can sit here and say I gave it my all. Yeah. I've tried everything. It's one of those things. It's very sad and hard. I am glowing because I'm finding happiness and peace. I have peace in my heart through all the chaos. It's sad. It's devastating. I love Justin. I love my family. And now that we know I'm getting divorced, he and I are still focused on the kids. So we're keeping it peaceful, amicable, and we're co-parenting well. So it's sad. but yeah i gave it my all i wanted it to work but hey but also you have to choose yourself at a certain point you know what i mean and it's a thing to of course divorce people look at it in different ways it's not like it's a failure or something it's just something worked for a while and now you have to do something else that works for you both separately well and you have to really consider how i was raised my mormon roots yeah i even though i'm no longer part of the church i've been out of the church for 20 years and i still have that mormon programming running in my brain that you don't get divorced like you're you don't do that to your family and i grew up in a divorced family i grew up with a you know a childhood that was hard so i did not want to do this to my kids but at some point i realized okay that's mormon programming get that out of your head right that's not true i felt i get called selfish a lot for wanting a divorce the society labels you that people label you that and i realized it's actually more selfish of me to stay in a situation i'm not happy in right and also like subject your kids to an unhappy household yeah you know how are your kids feeling about it how are you talking to your kids about it my kids are so amazing they they get it they're 16 and 13 right bobby's my they're both my best friends i'm very close to my kids yeah that's so sweet and that's what i've dove into during this process is business and kids and also it's a thing too because people always say they want to like you know protect their kids and everything kids are smart so like they're aware of stuff like i'm sure when you guys were talking about everything they're like ma we know oh yeah yeah but i don't know why i pushed off the converse i pushed off doing it and having the conversation with them for so long i think me choosing to leave the home yeah like separating and nesting we put that off for so long because i'm so scared to tell the kids but once i told the kids they're like thank you oh okay wait that's amazing they're like we want you happy we want dad happy want you happy and so i think that bobby and brooks are fine because they have two parents that love them yeah that's all you can ask for and that's more than a lot of kids have yeah and at 13 and 16 they're definitely aware of what's being said on social media are they watching the show have you seen bobby out in my comments no is she clapping back at people oh is she mama's defender she is my little warrior princess redheads are fiery they are she's my daughter yeah and she's bobby rose i had to like say okay no more oh my god but that must have felt good you know to know that she wanted to clap back at your haters yeah it makes me feel good but i also don't want her to feel like she has to do that like i'm in the public eye she's not and so that's the hardest thing about being on a show is your kids are subject to what you what i go through but no my kids are fierce i wouldn't mess with them we talked to heather last week of course when she she was promoting her book and it was unfortunately timing wise the same day that the news broke for you and she wasn't really sure you were going to do that or aware of it did you kind of need it to be a decision you privately made before like talking with your friends? Yeah, it was out of protection for my family and my kids I, I keep it pretty guarded and close to, I hold it close to my chest to protect my kids and to protect Justin's ability to be amicable and co-parent. And I'll, honesty i don't know i didn't know it was going to hit because i thought it was going to be sealed the filing but the judge denied that motion you can actually see it in the filing so i was i woke up after the event to all of that right the timing was kind of insane have you and heather chatted since yeah just to text she's still busy on her tour yeah yeah so but you're good yeah i mean it's one of those things where i just honestly i thought i was going to be able to keep it pretty private but do you think the judge denied it because you are a public figure i don't know i i spent a lot of time talking to my attorney about it and like even post malone he couldn't get his custody um case sealed so it's a utah thing i guess okay yeah i mean it's public record but it's not like i got arrested or like i didn't do anything to harm the public i'm just getting divorced yeah okay it was kind of frustrating because i didn't i didn't expect that um i probably would have waited until after, but it was kind of a blessing in disguise because it was like divorce, and then we hate Whitney because she's a bad friend to Kwai. So it kind of got like swallowed up by the toothbrush.