Jason Tartick is shedding more light on his breakup with ex Kat Stickler.
“Last time I saw you Justin [Glaze], it was Disneyland. That’s where we recorded,” Tartick, 36, told Glaze, 30, on the Monday, February 3, episode of the “Trading Secrets” podcast. “That was the day I found out things weren’t going to work in my favor in my last relationship.”
Glaze interjected to add, “That was quite the roller-coaster of a day,” which Tartick agreed. “That was a tough day and even a worse day after,” Tartick said.
While the duo did not share the specific date he was referencing, both Tartick shared an Instagram post from an airport on October 5, 2024, while Glaze uploaded a video from Disneyland to Instagram on October 10, 2024.
Tartick announced that he and Stickler, 30, had parted ways on October 12, 2024, after six months of dating.
“I am sad to share that Kat and I are no longer together,” Tartick wrote via his Instagram Story at the time. “It’s fair to say that I love hard with all my heart and fall fast. Sometimes in life that works out and other times, it doesn’t. This time it didn’t.”
He continued, “Kat has brought me so much happiness and light, she brought out parts of me I never knew existed. I will forever be grateful for her and, of course [her daughter] sweet MK. This chapter closes amicably, and another opens.” (Kat is mom to 5-year-old daughter MK, whom she welcomed with ex-husband Mike Stickler.)
Tartick added that he will “be rooting” for Kat’s “happiness” in the future, but noted that he’s “also rooting for mine.”
Kat addressed the split in her own social media statement that same day. “With two back-to-back hurricanes, I obviously didn’t think it was the right time to talk about my personal life,” Stickler, who is based in Florida, said in an Instagram Story video. “A lot of you have already guessed, and yes, Jason and I have broken up. It was amicable. It just didn’t work. I don’t want to talk about it. Just wanted to tell you.”
She added, “I understand that with posting a relationship online, you also have to show this side [and] the aftermath. … I just wanted to tell you guys, and it’s not love wasted. I feel like sometimes it’s so easy to think when a relationship ends that the love was wasted but love is never wasted. That’s all I have to say.”
While Tartick and Kat haven’t completely revealed the reason for the split, the former Bachelorette contestant shared his side of the story during an episode of his “Trading Secrets” podcast in January.
“It was so abrupt and it was so unexpected,” Tartick said at the time. “Then, what I was hearing, these things I’m hearing publicly about speculation of what happened. I’m just sitting in my house, like, pulling my hair out. Like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.’ That was, like, a really tough month. A really, really, really hard month.”
Tartick, who has now navigated two public breakups, shared he was willing to relocate to Florida while dating Kat. (Tartick was previously engaged to former Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe. The pair shared in August 2023 that they had separated.)
“Everyone goes through breakups,” Tartick said. “It is what it is and breakups happen. This is why you date. If you have a sudden change of heart, she’s not to blame for that. That’s OK.”
Tartick continued, “It’s really no one’s business what happened, but I will say, I’ve just seen every rumor out there and none of them are accurate. You put a gun to my head and I would never, ever be disloyal to her. I have a ton of respect and care for her.”
While reflecting on his candidness in the January episode, Tartick shared on Monday that he still held back from revealing more about their romance.
“You were a huge proponent of, during some of my breakups, for me to get out there and tell my story and tell my truth. I was always like, ‘No, no, no, no.’ And I don’t even think I really even scratched the surface of doing that on ‘JTA,’” Tartick told cohost David Arduin, referencing his January tell-all episode. “But I do think I spoke a little bit in what I thought was a very, very, honest, very real and very respectable way. And I feel good about it. I feel good about it, I feel a little bit more empowered to be more vulnerable.”
