For about 8 years, the ACE family regularly documented their life on the Internet, painting it as the idyllic influencer life. Yet, many of us suspect the day would come when that facade cracked.
Recommended VideosThere’s a reason Catherine Paiz mentioned feeling “liberated” in her statement addressing her divorce from Austin McBroom. Saying that, even though everything appeared to be fine on the surface of social media, the years from 2018 to 2022 were the hardest of her life. And again, we can, with relative legitimacy, assume why.
That being said, Catherine is not solely a victim of this situation. The couple has long been scrutinized for how they included their children in their public online life. A Redditor satirized her IG statement, joking:
“My husband and I are parting amicably but remain together in our desire to exploit our children for money. While we no longer will be romantic partners we remain united as partners in our desire to grift the public and take away our children’s privacy ”
Either way, a separation should be for the best.
The saying goes: “Once a cheater, always a cheater”
It’s true that you never know what is happening behind the scenes. But, with sufficient information, scattered here and there, we can speculate. And many netizens speculated how Catherine Paiz could endure the fact that her husband, allegedly, cheated on her. He’s denied the allegations, but the evidence and claims have come from multiple separate sources. One of these sources was YouTuber and influencer Tana Mongeau:
one time austin mcbroom was cheating on catherine with a random bitch and she left a lipstick in his car
then i was sitting with jake in the car and he gets a facetime
it’s from austin (crying) and catherine, yelling “IS THIS TANA’S LIPSTICK AUSTIN SAYS IT IS”
(it wasn’t)
— Tana Mongeau (@tanamongeau) June 12, 2021Austin, of course, clapped back and diverted the focus:
🧢 to the biggest clout chaser of them all! And it was actually Erika Costell’s lipstick dummy, I was taking Jake and her back to Jake’s house. This lame as lie ain’t gunna save the attention that your lil bf Bryce is about to get for his ass whoopin.
— Austin McBroom (@AustinMcbroom) June 12, 2021Later, another influencer would claim the lip liner was hers. But Tana wasn’t done, she also accused Austin of creating a “fake nanny company to cheat.”
MANS STARTED A FAKE NANNY COMPANY TO CHEAT LMAO
— Tana Mongeau (@tanamongeau) June 13, 2021Tana recorded a full video explaining the situation and going into more detail.
Replying to @❄️ ⛄️ There are so many othes…. #austinmcbroom #catherinemcbroom #cheating #acefamily
♬ original sound – flickfixclipzBesides this, there have been more voices over the years accusing Austin of infidelity – influencer Monica Bush, for instance.
Thinking of what Austin has shown of his character over the years, you get to decide whether those claims might hold merit or not.
Damage Control, PR moves, and Snapchat
Both parties claim they are on good terms. They are also posting consistently on Snapchat – although Austin McBroom has been mocked by some netizens for “cringe” snap stories – in one, he’s doing cartwheels like a giddy child who’s just learned how to do cartwheels and really wants to show their parents. He’s also presenting himself as someone who’s doing everything to improve and be enlightened, emphasizing how he’s been going to church regularly.
In another, he filmed himself – and made multiple subsequent posts – sharing how he woke up feeling sick and how he hoped it was not Covid-19.
Catherine would later film her own video saying that the day he woke up feeling ill, he was supposed to move out of the house:
“He just laid down all day, rested, went to the doctor to get some medicine, because he got really, really sick. So, I’m just here praying for him because he’s going through a whole purge, right now. Everything’s connected.”
Either way, the manner in which both have been posting regularly on Snapchat, makes one think that, like other creators before them, they have some arrangement that provides them with enough revenue to motivate them to keep posting on the platform.
Speaking of money, some netizens have reasons to feel skeptical about the true nature of their divorce and its specific timing:
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However, there can always be multiple reasons. It’s not always “either-or” in these kinds of cases. A divorce can come as a consequence of an accumulation of things, bad memories, poor dynamics, ugly arguments, you name it. Most netizens, of course, do reasonably think that the cheating scandals had a huge part to play and impact on the relationship.
The truth is, as much as we can speculate, we’ll never know the full, unadulterated truth. We can know enough to speculate, we may have gathered enough details to dislike one or both parties, but, at the end of the day, people should think of the kids before casting stones at the house they also live in.
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