HGTV star Tarek El Moussa recalls 'hitting rock bottom' and losing his way: 'I didn’t know who I was anymore'

Tarek El Moussa could not beryllium happier pinch wherever he is now successful his life – and that includes nan newest summation to his family.

In an question and reply pinch Fox News Digital, nan "Flip aliases Flop" prima shared that nan commencement of his son, Tristan, brings "so overmuch joy" to his household, which includes woman Heather Rae Young and nan 2 children he shares pinch ex-wife Christina Hall: Taylor and Brayden.

"I honestly I mean, this is nan happiest, hands down, nan happiest I've ever been successful my life," he said. "You know, I emotion being successful my forties. I emotion being established. I emotion my family. I emotion my wife. I emotion my kids. Like, I couldn't beryllium happier, and that's nan truth."

He continued: "This small guy, he conscionable brings truthful overmuch joyousness to nan household. He's conscionable truthful cute. He's really handy, he's ever moving astir and, you know, I'm conscionable arsenic obsessed pinch Taylor and Brayden, and now looking astatine Tristan, I deliberation astir each nan astonishing things we're going to do together. We're going to spell skiing and ungraded biking and walking and do jiu-jitsu, and arsenic a father, I conscionable couldn't beryllium happier."

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Tarek El Moussa said to Fox News Digital astir life pinch his newborn son, Tristan. (Photo by Michael Bezjian)

El Moussa and nan "Selling Sunset" star welcomed their boy Tristan astatine nan extremity of past month. Young announced nan news successful an Instagram station pinch nan caption, "Mama & babe are happy, healthy, tired but doing well. Our hearts are truthful happy."

"This is nan happiest, hands down, nan happiest I've ever been successful my life."

El Moussa said that his ex-wife and "Flip aliases Flop" partner, Hall, was "very supportive" and congratulated nan mates aft Tristan's birth. Hall and El Moussa's children Taylor, 12, and Brayden, 7, besides couldn't beryllium much thrilled astir their younger sibling. 

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"I was a small spot tense astatine first, you know, but they were truthful excited erstwhile they recovered retired that Heather was pregnant, and you sewage to understand something: These kids, they're obsessed pinch Heather, for illustration they are obsessed pinch her," El Moussa began. 

"So, you know, nan cutest point was Brayden. He's 7 years old. He tracked nan full gestation pinch Heather connected her app. So, like, each time he's coming over. ‘Is nan babe a grape? Is nan babe a banana? Is it a watermelon?’ because he wanted to travel nan size. Taylor, you know, she's conscionable a sweetheart, and she adores nan small brother. She holds him, they cuddle and some kids are conscionable truthful happy," he continued.

Tarek El Moussa and Heather Rae Young welcomed their first baby, boy Tristan, astatine nan extremity of January. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

As for what's different erstwhile it comes to being a begetter for nan 3rd time, El Moussa, who is now successful his 40s, shared that he wants to beryllium much present. 

"This time, it was very important for maine to really, really walk that one-on-one value clip pinch him. I'm not saying I didn't do it pinch my different kids, okay. I did, but I'm older, I'm calmer, I'm much established. I person a small spot much clip to relax. So I'm really enjoying that clip pinch him," El Moussa explained.

On apical of nan summation of a newborn, El Moussa and Young are starring successful a caller HGTV series, "The Flipping El Moussas," which debuts connected March 2, and will characteristic 10 episodes.

Fans will get an wrong look astatine Young's gestation travel and her preamble to nan house-flipping business, which is overmuch different from nan high-end existent property Young is utilized to connected Netflix's "Selling Sunset." 

"We are ecstatic that we will flip immoderate next-level homes successful spectacular locations, each while getting to walk much clip together arsenic a family," Tarek said successful a property release. "We’ll person immoderate battles of fund versus creation choices, but successful nan extremity it will make america stronger successful business and successful life arsenic we navigate our engaged lives arsenic we await our caller babe boy," Young added.

During Tarek's question and reply pinch Fox News Digital, he put an accent connected his blended family and really that impacts nan show. 

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"Some of nan different things you're going to spot is, you know, nan kids are a batch much involved. The family's a batch much involved. Obviously, my caller wife, Heather, she's progressive successful nan show and erstwhile she's available, she's filming pinch me. So, together we're conscionable having truthful overmuch nosy remodeling and fixing up these houses," he said.

El Moussa noted that nan existent property marketplace has changed a batch since he first delved into it, truthful fans are going to beryllium "shocked" by nan endings of immoderate of nan episodes.

Tarek El Moussa's ex-wife, Christina Hall, was "very supportive" astir his and Heather Rae Young's caller child. (Getty Images)

Outside of existent estate, El Moussa besides reflected connected reliable times. The reality TV prima is simply a subsister of testicular and thyroid cancer, suffered an mishap that wounded his backmost and went done a divorcement pinch Hall successful 2016, which El Moussa says is erstwhile he deed "rock bottom." 

"I did a batch of activity connected myself to get to wherever I americium today."

Following his diagnoses, he shared that his full manner changed, including cutting backmost connected drinking and quitting smoking altogether.

"I was a smoker. Awful for me. I was not eating bully foods. I was stressed retired each nan time. So it made maine really re-evaluate my life," he said.

El Moussa continued, "You know, aft nan cancers, I had that unspeakable mishap connected my backmost and I mislaid for illustration 60 pounds, and I was connected each those opiates. I was, you know, I was not doing well. This is what group don't understand – you know, from 2013 to 2016, it was hell. You know, I fought 2 cancers, I fought backmost surgery. I was dealing pinch each these hormone problems. And honestly, I mislaid my way. I mislaid who I was. When I looked successful nan mirror, I didn't cognize who I was anymore.

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"You know, hitting stone bottommost successful 2016, erstwhile my ex-wife decided that she wanted to extremity things, you know, that's that's erstwhile I had to excavation heavy and really fig retired who I was and who I wanted to beryllium and wherever I wanted to spell and really I was going to get there. So, I did a batch of activity connected myself to get to wherever I americium today," El Moussa shared.