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Michaele Salahi and her lovah Neal Schon are finally breaking their silence on their torrid love affair.
The affair became public knowledge last week after Michaele’s soon to be ex-husband Tareq Salahi publicly stated she had been missing and kidnapped. TMZ however reported the next day that the former Real Housewives of DC star had simply decided to run off with Journey guitarist Neal, whom she had been having a 2-year affair with.
In their first interview since the incident became public, the two are speaking out about their relationship and how they became a couple.
“It’s like a fairy tale. It is, it really is,” said Neal to the Daily Beast about finally being able to be out in the open with Michaele. “I’m very happy, very happy after waiting for her for 15 years. Now I want to get beyond all this media hype that Tareq has put out there. It’s really quite embarrassing.”
It gets even better as Michaele goes on to reveal that she dated both Tareq and Neal back in the late ’90s, but ultimately decided to choose Tareq after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She apparently believed she would receive better care from him.
“I chose Tareq over Neal because I thought life would be less stressful living on a vineyard in Virginia,” said Michaele. “Life on the road with a rock band…well, I thought I might not have been able to keep up.”
The two admit that the Journey concert at Tareq’s winery in Virgina early this month (Tareq was also in attendance) was a turning point in their affair relationship. “I began to see he really loved me. I had to begin to feel it completely in my soul, ” she said with Neal adding that Michaele told him she loved him that night.
“What happened was…she takes off her wedding ring…right in front of Tareq. Takes it off,” Neal explains. “And then she proceeds to come into my dressing room where I’m sitting down. I have tennis shoes on and she’s like, nine feet tall over me. And she looks down at me like she’s standing on stilts and says ‘I love you, and that’s never gonna change.’ And when that happened I said, ‘Get over here! This has taken 15 years!”
Michaele adds that she wanted to get on the tour bus and run off with Neal that night but ultimately decided to go home with Tareq to avoid humiliating him. Though she would end up doing just that about a week later.
“I didn’t want to hurt anyone, but I realized I was hurting myself,” she said of her decision to finally leave Tareq, whom she refers to as “controlling.” Neal chimes in adding that Tareq would order Michaele around, take away her money, phone and car so she had to be dependent on him, and also tell her when she could and couldn’t leave the house.
“I was going crazy,” says Michaele. “Because when you want to be with someone that bad, you start to go crazy. He [Neal] sent someone to come get me. I got on a plane by myself and I just went. I just walked away from everything.”
There’s also speculation that Neal’s July wedding to wife Ava Fabian might have been more of a spiritual ceremony and not a legally binding wedding.
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Neal didn’t wait 15 years. He’s been just as head over heels with all his women. It was love at first sight he said with a very young model, Amber Kozan. Married for eight years. Them he fell madly in love with Lori Carpenter aka Loretta Carpenter, a petite bombshell who was with him for three years. Then eventually fell madly in love with Ava Fabian, the ex-playboy centerfold, and may be married tp her. If do, she’s wife number five. Neal will never get off the road performing no matter how rich he is. He loves it. And he will fall madly in love again.
I love that Neal is complaining about all the press…….to the press.
This story is a gift from the Salihis.
What Michelle isn’t thinking about is that going through 5 wives he showed that he cheated on each and everyone. If she thinks that she’s special, she’s in for a rude awakening.
These two are both so fugly they deserve one another. FUG CITY!
Tareq is currently trying to set a fund raiser at the Washington Monument [Goat Rodeo] in order to get Michaele back…Broke a$$ troll! No shame.
Either Barbie is looking for her own reality show or she’s looking for a free meal, either way, she’s too thin
wouldn’t that be something, if Tareq let the cat out of the bag, that she really didn’t have MS? Hmm.. Then, she can go on record that he cooked up the entire White House scam. I mean, they could go on forever selling stories to TMZ, Radaronline..one little tidbit at a time.
I’m still trying to figure out which one is the least attractive of these two fools – Neal or Tareq.
I guess Andy and Bravo cancelled this show a year too early because this would’ve made the show really good.
Frankly who cares if this love between Neal-Michaele is fleeting – after all I’ve seen of crazy bags, manipulative, lying Tareq I think it’s a good thing she finally got away from him.I’m not a huge Michaele fan but I do think Tareq is the instigator behind all the Salahi shenanigans and Michaele has just been lying to herself that it’s all fine and normal and just started to adopt Tareq’s flippin psychotic tendencies.
Tareq is currently trying to set a fund raiser at the Washington Monument [Goat Rodeo] in order to get Michaele back…Broke a$$ troll! No shame.
The man is psychotic.
ooohhhh! Daniel!! I agree..dang!! ended too soon!
Tareq always seemed like the type to control every aspect and it also seemed to me that Michaele was going along..trying to convince herself that he was doing the right thing..til it got to be too much..and she woke up..NOW..whether she woke up in the right bed..remains to be seen!
have you noticed how these housewives leave once the money is gone? Tamra, Michaele, Taylor
Do you remember the rumors on RHODC about the Salahis using the money from the Polo fundraisers to finance their lifestyle?
He’s going to need a boatload of money to get her back.
micchaele looks so happy! she is very beautiful! so happy 4 her. she has earned it!
@65 yaaa
well said!
Really? You think we care? Helllllooooo?????
Oh and seriously….if Michaele was truly happy she would just be happy with her dude and not try to publicize …so tacky.
Tareq controlling? nah.
In the words of the immortal Dr. Phil, “if he did it WITH you, he’ll do it TO you”… of course, they’re both cheating scumbags so maybe they can just cheat on each other (as long as anyone will have them, that is). I’m struggling to believe this is true and not some publicity stunt. Either way, they deserve each other (all of them!)
Is it bad I would totally watch a reality show with these 3? I am truly the problem here…
Tareq is embarrassing Neil? Right.
You ain’t heard nothin’ yet, Neil.
Good Morning All! For the lucky ones living in NYC, Tareq is attending a birthday party tonight for The Manhattan Madam Kristin Davis as his date. Hotel Chantell – a real classy hotel?? Has anyone heard of it? Too bad I live so far away – guess that means his crying is over for now.