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Back in 2013, Christina Hall and then-husband Tarek El Moussa were on the top of the world. They’d taken their successful house-flipping enterprise to HGTV, leading to “Flip or Flop” becoming one of the network’s most popular shows, and recently welcomed their first child. Their newfound HGTV fame opened up a whole new world of opportunities for them.
During the show’s first season, a viewer — a registered nurse — saw an unusual lump on El Moussa’s neck and reached out to the show’s production company urging, him to have it checked out. He did and underwent a surgical procedure to remove it — which didn’t go as planned. “When I woke up, my wife was crying and the first thing I asked was, ‘It’s cancer, isn’t it?’ And she said, ‘Yeah,'” he told People. Hall was blindsided by the diagnosis, her concerns falling by the wayside as she confronted her then-husband’s mortality. “I was just feeling totally overwhelmed about losing him, him having to go through treatments, our daughter,” she admitted in an interview with Today.
What the El Moussas didn’t reveal at the time was that he’d also received a second diagnosis of testicular cancer. The dual diagnoses, along with everything else going on in their lives, added extra stress to their marriage. “It just kind of started pushing us apart from each other,” El Moussa said during an appearance on “The Doctors,” via TV Guide.
