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Gina Kirschenheiter offered an update on boyfriend Travis Mullen‘s ongoing custody battle with ex-wife Meghan Mullen after moving back in with her partner earlier this year.
Just as Travis, 40, and Meghan were ordered to undergo psychological evaluations, the 41-year-old Real Housewives of Orange County star revealed that her boyfriend hadn’t seen his children, including Presley, born in 2011, Bennett, born in 2014, and Joseph, born in 2016, for weeks, which was upsetting not just for Travis, but also for Gina and her kids.
“The kids were crying regularly. They miss their siblings. We’re really, truly a family. And then it’s like, somebody just decides that you’re not anymore, for an indefinite amount of time, until you have to go to the system,” Gina revealed during a September 4 interview with Us Weekly, via YouTube. “It’s horrible and it’s unnecessary.”
“I know that my kids are sad … I know that my stepdaughter is very affected and sad,” she continued.
According to Gina, Travis’ children returned to their home recently. However, before what was supposed to be a family vacation with their blended family of six kids, Meghan decided her three weren’t allowed to go.
“I haven’t seen them in a couple weeks. It’s awful,” she shared. “It does affect us so greatly and it is hurting the kids and I’m just at this place where I’m like, ‘It’s not fair,’ and I don’t feel like it’s completely wild or out of bounds to sit here and say, ‘What’s happening to me and my family is unfair.’”
“It will never make sense to me, but we operate around it as best we can,” she added.
Although Gina would love to co-parent with Travis and Meghan, she doesn’t see that in their future.
“I’ve been given zero indication that that’s what his ex wants, so if she doesn’t want that, there’s nothing that we can do,” she explained. “I am always going to do what is in the best interest of the children, so I will never be the problem … There’s more things that are happening now that hopefully will result in [Travis’ time away from his kids] happening less. But ultimately, I don’t really know.”
One of those things is impending psychological evaluations.
As noted in court documents filed on August 28 and obtained by Us Weekly on September 8, Travis and Meghan will be appointing a doctor in Newport Beach, California, to conduct a “full child custody evaluation” about their kids, which will “assist the court in making a determination regarding the custody and visitation arrangement that is in the best interest of the minor children.”
Travis and Meghan are expected to work with the doctor, who will have access to teachers, family members, and therapists, and “promptly complete all necessary paperwork, interviews, psychological testing and home visits as reasonably requested by the evaluator.”
They will split the cost of the work done. And once the doctor has come to a conclusion, he will write up a report and submit it to the court.
The Real Housewives of Orange County season 19 airs Thursdays at 8/7c on Bravo.