Southern Charm viewers will be filled in on Austen Kroll’s relationship with Audrey Pratt on season 11.
Us Weekly spoke exclusively to cast members from the Bravo hit ahead of the November 19 premiere, with Austen, 38, addressing his status with Audrey for the first time since he hinted that they were over on Watch What Happens With Live in July.
“What I can say, and what I always will say, is that Audrey is the best kind of person,” Austen began to Us. “She’s the sweetest, she’s the kindest, most thoughtful, and you will see us [on season 11 try to] figure out what our future is going to look like together.”
Austen, who lives in Charleston, and Audrey, who resides in Charlotte, had been navigating long-distance since they started dating in late 2023.
“It’s very difficult. At first, I loved the fact that she lived here and I lived here, and we make an effort to see each other as often as possible, and then it comes to that point where it’s like, ‘We’ve been dating for this long now, who’s moving where and when?’ You’ll see this kind of unfold,” he explained.
Based on what the cast told Us about the season — which includes messy romantic entanglements between Austen, Craig Conover, Salley Carson and newcomers Whit Slagsvol and Charley Manley — things are over with Austen and Audrey. He makes a point to say there is no bad blood.
“I don’t care if it’s a spoiler, Audrey and I never had any sort of, like, ‘damn’ moment that happened to make anything [bad] between us happen,” Austen told Us.
That doesn’t mean their relationship won’t be talked about, however. In the season 11 trailer, there’s a moment where Craig and Shep are seen talking about a rumor that Austen was unfaithful, something he denies and calls “extremely disappointing” to see Craig have repeated.
“Man, if I didn’t hear things — not like unfaithfulness, per se, between him and [his ex] Paige [DeSorbo] — I never fed into any of that stuff, because that is a line crosser,” Austen said, hinting that cast members like Shep and Whitney Sudler-Smith would attempt to talk about Paige and Craig. “I never was the one who was pointing fingers at a rocky relationship between him and Paige, so to see him more than willing to offer this up is … was disappointing as hell to see. I was nothing but a supporter and never fed into the outside noise that I heard about him. You’ll definitely see that disappointment in me in the aftermath of said scene.”
Craig, for his part, described his relationship with Austen this season as “turbulent” — but all three of Southern Charm’s leading men aren’t quitting each other just yet.
“We just butt heads, and you’ll get to follow along as we continue to try to figure out what our path forward is, and it transcends the show and the cameras,” Craig said. “We don’t quit each other. The Housewives may just walk away — we don’t. And I hope you get to see some of the fun moments this year too.”
Southern Charm returns to Bravo on Wednesday, November 19, at 9 p.m. ET.
