Photo:Cory Miller/Instagram
Cory Miller/Instagram
Mina Starsiak Hawkis opening up about the status of her relationship withGood Bonescostar Cory Miller afterthe show endedtwo months ago.
“So, there’s been enough questions about Cory that I’m going to try to address this in a respectful way, again, understanding that I have a platform that he maybe doesn’t have,” she said of Miller, who served as project manager on her long-running show. “Cory and I are not on speaking terms. I am positive that there are things he feels like I did to him, and I’ve known him since he was 11, and I’ve always had a soft spot for him.”
She shared that there were “a couple things that happened towards the end” that she decided she “can’t move on from.”
Mina Starsiak Hawk and Karen E. Laine.Mina Starsiak Hawk Instagram
Mina Starsiak Hawk Instagram
“I just don’t want that energy in my life,” she added. “I’ve got a lot of amazing people, and part of that means not hate-following or not anger-following like, ‘Let me see what this person is doing.’”Good Bones,on which Starsiak Hawk renovated Indianapolis homes alongside her mom, Karen E. Laine, and their team, wrapped up its eight-season run in October. The mother-daughter duo started their business, Two Chicks and a Hammer, in 2007.
“So many people on social media follow people just ‘cause they want to see them fail or fall down or look fat in a picture or whatever it is,” Starsiak Hawk continued of her reasons for not following. “And I’m just not interested in that. I don’t want other people to do it to me.”
“I just kind of wanted to separate that out from my world, and he probably wanted to do the same,” she continued. “It’s a super bummer because I have historically had a great relationship with Cory, and when things end particularly like they did, people’s colors just show a little more, which is a blessing because then I have the choice to make a different choice.”
“Austin [Aynes] was the most recent employee, but Tad [Starsiak] and Cory haven’t for a long time,” she said.
Mina — who’s also been candid about tensions with her mom and her brother Tad —acknowledged the challengesthat came with finding fame on the show in a previous episode of her podcast released ahead ofGood Bones’ finale.
“I think I knew … that this was going to be hard and it was going to challenge relationships, because when you put anything under a spotlight, in a pressure cooker, there’s the opportunity to explode,” she said. “And I myself am not stable enough to not explode at times.”
Mina noted that her “whole complicated family organization,” many members of which have been involved in her business and in the creation ofGood Bones,includes a lot of different personalities and “people with so many different issues, weaknesses, things left to learn.”
Mina Starsiak Hawk/Instagram
However, Starsiak Hawkrevealed to PEOPLEthis week that she’s looking forward to “a nice fresh start” as she’s planning to reopen her recently closed Indianapolis store, 2 Chicks District Co., in a new city.
Its next incarnation will be in Noblesville, Indiana, about 30 miles north of Indianapolis.
Mina and husband Steve Hawk, who share 5-year-old son Jack and 3-year-old daughter Charlie, are even looking at homes to renovate there.
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“There’s so many cool Queen Anne Victorians,” she said. “There was one that I kind of had my eye on that’s like a block off the square that’s just a mess, which is perfect to me.”
source: people.com
