This plays out over the next season, but have you been working on repairing your relationship with your ex-wife? Have you spoken to your kids yet?

Yeah, so we were talking before we started filming — even before filming was an idea because no one knew if production was going to get picked back up. There's some people talking about like, "Oh, you did it for the show." And I was like, "No, I've always wanted to work towards a better place in my life to be able to have access to my kids."

When I was younger, I wasn't in a good position. We weren't in a good environment for my kids. They're in a productive environment with their stepdad, and that's a responsibility I took on. I'm like, "Look, well, okay." But could I handle it differently? Potentially. But during my years of growing up, I went from moving to America, doing football, and then applying that, then transitioning to, "Well, I didn't make the NFL. How am I going to explain this? To be away from my kids for [so] long? I have nothing."

That pushed me to go into the next venture, which was owning F45 gyms. That drive pushed me to ... I was setting myself up for success, and then we had the pandemic ... It was so long ago, it was 2019, mate. It was 2019. January, February, and March we shut down. From there, we went into lockdown. It's crazy. We've been dealing with COVID for over a year and a half. During that year and a half, it put a cog [in] my wheels.

Before that, in 2018, I was speaking with child support. We split up. When we split up, we had an agreement that I would send her money — that's it — and there's no child support needed. There was no actual government-enforced [child support]. Once we stopped communicating ... I was like, "Well, I'm not going to send you more money if you're not going to talk to me about the kids." There was like very bad [bickering].

At that point, she started claiming child support, which I was not aware of. I didn't pay attention to it, to be honest. That was a downfall from me. They contacted me. They're like, "Actually, just so you know, Brock, you owe four years of child support ... so you need to pay that." That was in '20. That was before the pandemic. I was like, "Perfect." Pandemic hit. I was like, "Look, I have plans to pay this back, but we have to stretch that through this year." My one goal was to get to the ["Vanderpump Rules"] reunion, to have it completely paid off, so no one can say anything about child support.