On the most recent episode of Kramer’s Whine Down podcast, whereby she was joined by her ex-husband, the earlier couple — who share daughter Jolie, 8, and son Jace, 5, — revealed that the “solely issue” they “battle” about of their post-divorce relationship is Kramer sending Caussin baby assist funds.

Kramer, 40, her husband, Allan Russell, and Caussin, 37, answered fan questions in the midst of the episode, with Kramer asking, per a fan, if her ex “dislike[s]” her citing that she pays him baby assist.

Caussin laughed, sooner than getting extreme as he admitted, “Yeah, in truth. And that could be a scorching button for us, and everyone knows that.”

“You hate it. I hate it,” he added, to which Kramer acknowledged, “That’s the one issue we really, really battle about.”

“Certain, it actually is. That’s the kind of really true, ultimate remaining resentment,” he acknowledged. “And Jana hasn’t made up that I have the benefit of receiving that, significantly with money being a consider our marriage and our historic previous.”

As a consequence of this, the earlier soccer star admitted that the “very very last thing” he wishes is for his ex to imagine he desires financial assist from her.

“So discovering my means post-divorce, discovering my occupation, discovering the issue the place I can current and do all of that stuff has taken some time,” Caussin acknowledged, mentioning discovering his private enterprise. “It’s a battle because of I reinvest stuff that I make once more into my enterprise to have the ability to make further and assemble and assemble and assemble.”

“Perception me, it’s my function … to level out up and have a paper from my lawyer signing over, ‘Hey, this isn’t your approved obligation anymore,’” he added. “Like that’ll be most likely essentially the most liberating second for me ever throughout the historic previous of Mike and Jana as a result of our historic previous and so no part of me enjoys it.”

When Kramer requested her ex why he “hate[s]” having her pay him baby assist, he continued his clarification, telling her, “I perceive how rather a lot weight you can have with it, the way in which it impacts you. You keep it in direction of me and it creates this narrative that merely shouldn’t be appropriate.”

“It is just a ultimate remaining issue conflicting between us that additionally lingers from our earlier. I wish to have the power to relinquish every of us, all of us, … from that,” Caussin acknowledged.

“That’s the ultimate lingering issue between us and my very personal satisfaction and ego is destroyed [by] the reality that I’m in a position the place I’ve to take it, to be absolutely weak,” he concluded. “It’s what it’s.”

Kramer and Caussin, who separated larger than as quickly as all through their six-year marriage, known as it quits in April 2021 after a slew of dishonest allegations, with the One Tree Hill alum accusing her ex of “inappropriate marital conduct, irreconcilable variations and adultery” in her divorce submitting. Their divorce was finalized in July 2021.

In response to E! Info, Kramer — who has custody of Jolie and Jace two-thirds of the time — supplies her ex $3,200 per thirty days in baby assist, and pays for the kids’s medical medical health insurance.

Within the meantime, moreover all through Caussin’s look on his ex-wife’s podcast, the earlier NFL participant shared his concepts on the potential of his children referring to Russell as “Dad.”

“That could be a troublesome one. They’ve certainly not known as Allan ‘Dad’ at my dwelling,” Caussin acknowledged. “I’m not going to sit proper right here and inform them you presumably can’t title him what you want to title him.”

“Which we moreover had a dialog about that too,” Kramer replied. “I three of us, keep in mind, after we had a dialog ultimate yr as soon as I used to be pregnant with Roman.”

“And we’re like, ‘We won’t say what they’ll and will’t do. Within the occasion that they want to title him the Easter Bunny, they’ll title him the Easter Bunny. They’ll title him irrespective of he wishes,’” she added. “I’m not going to say you have to title him dad.”

Nonetheless, Caussin admitted that it’ll impression him.

“No person has to do any kind of correcting. Nonetheless that one stings most likely essentially the most,” he acknowledged. “If I had been to hearken to it, or if the youngsters inform me, ‘Oh, Mom suggested us to call him Dad.’ That can ship me.”

Russell, within the meantime, chimed in, claiming that the hypothetical state of affairs “wouldn’t happen,” significantly if Caussin was there.

Kramer added, “Yeah, I really feel the one issue is, with now Roman, it’s further like I nonetheless say Allan 90% of the time, nevertheless usually I might be like, ‘Go give this to Dad.’ On account of it’s Roman.”

Caussin acknowledged he’s “cool with” that, noting that he’s “ready to separate myself to a stage. Nonetheless he admitted it’s the “hardest issue” understanding that he’s “missing moments” alongside along with his children.

“It’s what it’s. Comes with the territory,” he acknowledged.

Lastly, Russell doesn’t assume Kramer and Caussin’s youngsters will ever search recommendation from him as “Dad” because of they’re “very clear who their dad is and who their stepdad is.”

“It’s not like I’ve been with the youngsters since they’ve been 1 yr outdated, 6 months outdated, the place it will likely be any completely totally different. Optimistic, usually it could slip out of their mouth positively. I don’t assume it’ll ever be a habits,” he acknowledged. “I don’t assume they’re going to ever frequently title me ‘Dad.’ I really feel they’re at an age the place…this has all kind of occurred the place they’re at an age the place they’re old enough.”

“Yeah, at this stage they kind of title you what they title you,” Caussin agreed, together with, “Nonetheless I defend that, it’s like, a father or a dad is any individual who offers, protects, takes care of a child, whether or not or not natural or not. So, you acknowledge, you’re nonetheless worthy of the title clearly. Nonetheless yeah, the youngsters know.”