Vicki Gunvalson Reveals Her Boyfriend Is Leaving California: "I Don't Have Anybody..."
The RHOC alum says her beau, Michael Smith, has accepted an out-of-state job that may last several years.
Vicki Gunvalson admits there’s a lot of uncertainty surrounding her and her boyfriend’s living situation.
During the latest episode of My Friend, My Soulmate, My Podcast, The Real Housewives of Orange County alum revealed her longtime beau, Michael Smith, was leaving California. The couple started dating nearly three years ago and began shacking up in Vicki’s Coto de Caza home in 2023.
“Everybody is moving away, including my boyfriend,” she told her co-host, Christian Gray Snow, and specialist guest The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Crystal Kung Minkoff.
Vicki shares an update on her and Michael Smith's living situation
Vicki confirmed she and Michael were still together, but he had accepted an out-of-state job that required him to be away for quite some time.
“I’m actually in Phoenix right now. He’s a developer and he’s doing a project that’s going to be a couple of years,” she explained. “But we live together in California but he’s going back and forth and it’s hard. It’s my new normal now. So I don’t know where I’m going to end up.”
Christian reassured Vicki she would be just fine while Michael was away and encouraged her to visit him on the weekends.
“You can do a year,” Crystal added.
“It could be two or three [years], depending on how many projects come in,” Vicki clarified. “But I’m not a weekend person. I want to be with him all the time because I don’t like my nights. I can work during the day, but my nights are the hard part.”
Vicki's son, Michael Wolfsmith, is leaving the U.S.
Elsewhere in the episode, Vicki revealed she no longer had relatives living on the West Coast, as her daughter, Briana Culberson, resides in Oklahoma and her son, Michael Wolfsmith, was preparing to leave for Europe.
“I don’t have any family in California,” she said during the episode. “So, that’s hard when you have life situations, like when you get sick… My son is a world traveler, gonna end up in Barcelona, Spain. He just got his nomad visa.”
Although there’s no doubt Vicki will miss her son, she said she fully supported his globetrotting lifestyle.
“I like traveling. The world is our oyster,” she said. “I’ve always taught my children… it’s not just school, it’s the world that we need to be teaching our children — the different economic structures and the currencies and the lifestyles. He’s really caught up on the quality of food in Europe. He doesn’t like what’s happening in America, with our food quality, so he’s really focused on that. So, good for him.”
