Nicole Curtis returns to 'Rehab Addict' after 3 years, reveals 'setback in my life'
Home renovation aficionado Nicole Curtis is back on HGTV after nearly three years.
With the Season 9 premiere June 24, the 48-year-old historic building preservation enthusiast will appear in new "Rehab Addict" episodes for the first time since 2018. (The spinoff "Rehab Addict Lake House Rescue" was her most recent on-air appearance; it aired a season in 2022.)
The HGTV star acknowledged it hasn't been smooth sailing behind the scenes.
"I had a setback in my life that just rocked me to the core, and it was one of those moments where I thought, how do I get through this one?" she told People in an interview that was published June 24.
Though she did not delve into the nature of the "setback," she revealed it caused her to reevaluate her priorities in life, saying, "I prayed on it, and it was just devastating for me. I had to make a decision right there and then like, 'OK, we're going to let this affect us for a very long time, or we're going to pick it up and go.'"
She detailed a spontaneous 2022 trip in which she'd forgotten her wallet, leaving her with $72 in U.S. dollar bills on a layover in Paris. Rather than devolving into panic, Curtis saw the travel disaster as "a sign" and soon found herself purchasing a Wyoming home sight unseen.
"I'm going to knock off all my wish lists tonight," she'd thought at the time. Now that home, described by HGTV as "an 1890s house subjected to a bad flip," will star in the upcoming four "Rehab Addict" episodes, which she called "an evolved version" of the show that debuted in 2010.
"I'm no longer this little poor mommy in Minneapolis driving around with this pickup truck with two dogs and a kid," she said. "But I'm still me, I'm still Nicole Curtis from Detroit, and I want you to save that building and we're going to do it."
In 2022, speaking with People about returning to TV with "Rehab Addict Rescue," Curtis admitted, "I was completely burned out" after eight seasons of "Rehab Addict." She added, "There was so much time in those ten years where I didn't get to enjoy it at all. I was stressed out."
Nicole Curtis is giving her sons the 'gift' of privacy
In her recent People interview, Curtis also referenced the tumultuous family life that made headlines nearly a decade ago. Nearly a decade ago, she and former partner Shane Maguire began a custody battle over their now 10-year-old son, Harper.
"Our family went through a lot over the years, and so that's definitely something that I have done my best to keep my family out of the public eye and focus on the houses," she told People. "That's always where we wanted that focus to be."
Curtis revealed she won't be showing as much of her family in the new episodes, though her older son, Ethan, previously made appearances.
"I think there's one gift we can give our children, and I give them privacy. They're out in public with me a lot, and I shield them," she said. "But I won't do that again. My boys are my most precious, precious things in the entire world to me."
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