Courtney Stodden has insisted she’s not a bimbo, claiming she played into the role to make money because her estranged husband was broke, she told DailyMailTV in a bombshell exclusive interview.
The 23-year-old admits her six-year marriage to actor Doug Hutchison ended because she wanted ‘to go out and screw’ other men, feeling ‘robbed’ of the single life due to marrying the older actor at a young age.
In the aspiring singer’s interview with DailyMailTV, Courtney declared that she would never go back to Hutchison, calling her public plea for him to take her back a ‘weak moment’.
Courtney married Hutchison in 2011, causing controversy due to their glaring age difference – she was 16 and he, 50. The two split for good early last year and the divorce should be finalized in March.
Branding their marriage a ‘roller coaster’ that left her ostracized from her own family, Courtney said she felt ‘suffocated’ by their relationship that had turned ‘toxic’.
Courtney elaborates on the issues that plagued her marriage and gushes about her new relationship with entrepreneur boyfriend Chris Sheng, explaining: ‘I am trying to pick up the pieces in my life and put them back together again.’
Courtney Stodden has declared she’ll never go back to her estranged husband Doug Hutchison, she told DailyMailTV in an exclusive interview. The blonde bombshell elaborates on her marriage troubles with the older actor and gushes about her new relationship with entrepreneur boyfriend Chris Sheng
![The 23-year-old claims she played into the 'bimbo' role in order to make money and be the breadwinner in her failed marriage to estranged husband Doug Hutchison (pictured together at the Chateau Marmont in 2015)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/08/17/48EFD98000000578-5359315-The_23_year_old_claims_she_was_forced_to_play_into_the_bimbo_rol-a-7_1518111366126.jpg)
The 23-year-old claims she played into the ‘bimbo’ role in order to make money and be the breadwinner in her failed marriage to estranged husband Doug Hutchison (pictured together at the Chateau Marmont in 2015)
Courtney confessed to DailyMailTV that she now feels the best she has ever felt in her life after splitting from Hutchison.
She said that when she finally told the older actor that she saw him as a ‘best friend and as a father figure,’ he ‘hit the roof.’
The reality star revealed she could not bring herself to start divorce proceedings, because despite not wanting them to be lovers, she contemplated suicide without him.
An emotional Courtney said: ‘I tried to take it slow and it was purely driven by fear, not having Doug in my life made me feel like I couldn’t go on when I was at my lowest.
‘There was no one else to trust. I could have just owned up but I didn’t do that, and it took a year.’
However with their marriage set to be over by the end of March, Courtney says she is ‘feeling great’ and finding the healing she has been searching for.
She has even found love, moving into a plush Beverly Hills home with her 37-year-old boyfriend, Chris Sheng.
Meanwhile, Hutchison is living in Michigan with his father after moving home to be with his family and to get clean and healthy, Courtney said.
Courtney revealed it has been hurtful and difficult dealing with some of her estranged husband’s comments since their split, including the suggestion she is using her new man for his money.
Exasperated by his remarks, she told DailyMailTV: ‘It is not true, it could not be the furthest thing from the truth. It pains me that Doug is hurt but I have to start living my life.’
![Courtney has now moved on with her new entrepreneur boyfriend Chris Sheng (pictured together), adding: 'I am actually feeling the best I have ever felt in my life'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/08/17/48EF807A00000578-5359315-Courtney_has_now_moved_on_with_her_new_entrepreneur_boyfriend_Ch-a-6_1518111366122.jpg)
Courtney has now moved on with her new entrepreneur boyfriend Chris Sheng (pictured together), adding: ‘I am actually feeling the best I have ever felt in my life’
![Courtney said she was hit with backlash for tying the knot so young, adding: 'I was receiving a lot of things like, ''you're a gold digger, you're Anna Nicole-Smith, you're using him, he's a Sugar Daddy.'' From my point of view it took a toll on me emotionally and I wasn't prepared for what happened marrying Doug'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/08/17/48EF800E00000578-5359315-Courtney_said_I_was_receiving_a_lot_of_things_like_you_re_a_gold-a-19_1518111366577.jpg)
Courtney said she was hit with backlash for tying the knot so young, adding: ‘I was receiving a lot of things like, ”you’re a gold digger, you’re Anna Nicole-Smith, you’re using him, he’s a Sugar Daddy.” From my point of view it took a toll on me emotionally and I wasn’t prepared for what happened marrying Doug’
And she added while her soon to be ex-husband claimed she was ‘broke’, she was in fact the breadwinner in the relationship, keeping them afloat when The X-Files actor wasn’t earning any money.
Courtney added: ‘My reality shows – I saved our a**es in the marriage. For him to say I’m broke, really is beyond me.’
The couple tied the knot in 2011 and struggled with the heartache of a miscarriage in summer of 2016 before finally announcing their split in February last year.
Doug moved back to Michigan at the beginning of September, and hasn’t seen his estranged wife in person since.
Speaking frankly about their relationship, Courtney revealed in the beginning, her marriage to The Green Mile actor was a fairy tale, but cracks started to appear just a year after they got hitched.
She says the couple battled with Doug’s alcoholism and her own realization that she was going to be with the same man for the rest of her life.
And it was that which led her to want to ‘screw other men’, turning their relationship ‘toxic.’
She said: ‘I was this young girl swept off my feet by this actor.
‘We had a honeymoon at the Chateau Marmont, I was in love as much as a 16-year-old girl knows what love is, knows what marriage means.’
The Celebrity Big Brother star added: ‘When the Disney-esque honeymoon phase started to end, I think when I was 17, it started to show some of Doug’s flaws in the marriage and I was thinking, ”Oh my God I got married.”
‘We were dealing with a lot of issues, his alcoholism was one of them.
‘It was hard to manage that and it got worse when I was acting like a teenage girl and I was going out with other guys.
‘I felt kind of robbed of that. We weren’t handling it in a healthy way.’
![Courtney married Hutchison in 2011 (pictured together on their wedding day), which caused controversy due to their glaring age difference - she was 16 and he, 50. The two split for good early last year and the divorce should be finalized in March](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/08/17/48EFD96600000578-5359315-Courtney_married_Hutchison_in_2011_pictured_together_on_their_we-a-5_1518111366117.jpg)
Courtney married Hutchison in 2011 (pictured together on their wedding day), which caused controversy due to their glaring age difference – she was 16 and he, 50. The two split for good early last year and the divorce should be finalized in March
![Courtney said it has been hurtful and difficult dealing with some of Doug's comments since their split, including the suggestion she is using her new man for his money. The Green Mile actor (pictured) is currently living with his father near Detroit, Michigan](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/08/17/48EFD95800000578-5359315-Courtney_said_it_has_been_hurtful_and_difficult_dealing_with_som-a-9_1518111366136.jpg)
Courtney said it has been hurtful and difficult dealing with some of Doug’s comments since their split, including the suggestion she is using her new man for his money. The Green Mile actor (pictured) is currently living with his father near Detroit, Michigan
Courtney revealed the couple’s love blossomed initially online when Doug taught her acting: ‘As a young girl I was very interested in the art and acting and singing,’ she said.
The reality star was living in Washington State at the time and Doug was living in Los Angeles. They began to talk regularly on the phone.
Courtney added: ‘Over the course of three months into the teaching it started turning into more personal questions.
‘From my point of view as a young girl, of 16, I was like, Ok, well he is going to get to know me because that is kind of like the field of acting. It is very personable and inside out.
‘We started talking and I started asking him questions and after the four month mark it turned romantic.’
Courtney says it was a mutual feeling when they both declared their love: ‘We both told each other we were feeling [this way] at the same time.
‘It was crazy to me this man who was older than my father, was on that same level of falling for me and I was 16.
‘You can imagine from a 16-year-old girl point of view, it was kind of surprising.
‘But it was attractive as well. He was this established actor, an amazing man, I always had a dream of Hollywood.
‘It seemed like a perfect unconventional crazy situation at the time.’
However, after the couple tied the knot, Courtney soon realized not everyone thought their union was a good idea.
She revealed she was bullied on social media, and struggled with depression as she tried to cope with the barrage of negativity.
![Courtney said her marriage ended because she wanted 'to go out and screw' other men. She explained: 'I had never had that opportunity. I went from my parents to Doug. I didn't go to prom or go on dates with other guys... I felt kind of robbed of that'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/08/17/48EF809600000578-5359315-Courtney_said_her_marriage_ended_because_she_wanted_to_go_out_an-a-4_1518111366090.jpg)
Courtney said her marriage ended because she wanted ‘to go out and screw’ other men. She explained: ‘I had never had that opportunity. I went from my parents to Doug. I didn’t go to prom or go on dates with other guys… I felt kind of robbed of that’
![Courtney said she was hurt by the perception she was a bimbo, a role she played up to: 'Right now I am trying to get out of that role. I am not that bimbo people perceive me as'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/08/17/48EF808900000578-5359315-Courtney_said_she_was_hurt_by_the_perception_she_was_a_bimbo_a_r-a-8_1518111366135.jpg)
Courtney said she was hurt by the perception she was a bimbo, a role she played up to: ‘Right now I am trying to get out of that role. I am not that bimbo people perceive me as’
While Doug was sent death threats and branded a pedophile, she was called a ‘slut’ and a ‘gold digger.’
Courtney revealed: ‘I was caught up in this huge whirlwind of celebrity and I wasn’t prepared for it.
‘It happened overnight. For me, I kind of shut down in a way, went into a walking zombie mode for a long period of time. I had to put up a lot of walls and being bullied in school already it was on a bigger scale of bullying.’
She added: ‘I was receiving a lot of things like, ”you’re a gold digger, you’re Anna Nicole-Smith, you’re using him, he’s a Sugar Daddy.”
‘From my point of view it took a toll on me emotionally and I wasn’t prepared for what happened marrying Doug.
‘People were talking about a girl who isn’t even of age yet, like ”she’s a slut” slut-shaming. I was kind of playing a role I really wasn’t.’
Courtney said she was hurt by the perception she was a bimbo, a role she played up to: ‘Right now I am trying to get out of that role. I am not that bimbo people perceive me as.
‘I went into that caricature of myself to protect myself. I felt I was playing it so people couldn’t really see who I was.’
And she said as well as the pressure of her marriage to a man 35 years her senior, she was also coping with overnight fame and family problems: ‘It was a lot to adjust for a young girl.’
The pressure took its toll, and they went through their first split when she was 19.
Courtney confessed she sought solace in other men: ‘In that single spree, it wasn’t necessarily to be mature and find myself and stuff like that.
‘I just wanted to go out and screw to be completely honest, because I had never had that opportunity. I went from my parents to Doug. I didn’t go to prom or go on dates with other guys.’
![Courtney said she was hurt by the perception she was a bimbo, a role she played up to: 'Right now I am trying to get out of that role. I am not that bimbo people perceive me as.' Pictured: Courtney with Doug shortly after they met in 2011](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/08/17/48E6E7FF00000578-5359315-Courtney_said_she_was_hurt_by_the_perception_she_was_a_bimbo_a_r-a-12_1518111366323.jpg)
Courtney said she was hurt by the perception she was a bimbo, a role she played up to: ‘Right now I am trying to get out of that role. I am not that bimbo people perceive me as.’ Pictured: Courtney with Doug shortly after they met in 2011
Courtney added it was difficult for him to adjust, but he let her go. Eventually, the pair overcame their issues and got back together.
But they suffered more heartache – Courtney had a miscarriage when she was 13 weeks pregnant in 2016.
She admitted she turned to a cocktail of pills and champagne to cope with her loss.
But she added Doug supported her ‘every step of the way’, even when she shaved her hair off as a coping mechanism for her grief of losing the baby: ‘He actually encouraged it,’ Courtney revealed.
‘He said, ”I have seen women say that it helps them heal.’ He was like do it. He was there when my make-up artist shaved my hair off. He was there 100 percent.
‘I felt liberated. It just dawned on me hair doesn’t equal beauty. I actually felt my prettiest when I had my head shaved, I felt ballsy, liberated, healed.
‘It definitely didn’t cure my heartache, nothing will, but it was a great transition for sure.’
However the couple weren’t able to overcome their problems and split again in February last year.
Courtney recalled: ‘I was like, you know what, we were still having issues, but we still had a lot of love for each other. But it was kind of getting to a toxic place. He could feel my distance and I think he could also feel I needed to grow.
‘The issues was that I kind of felt suffocated. He was looking at saving this young girl, this damsel.’
Adding she knows she has ‘daddy issues’ she said: ‘I needed a father figure, family, love and Doug provided that for me.
‘As I matured, I know that it was not a completely healthy situation for me. I realized I cannot grow in that environment. I can’t learn about myself and feel free in a marriage, or that kind of marriage.’
![Courtney had a miscarriage when she was 13 weeks pregnant in 2016. She admitted she turned to a cocktail of pills and champagne to cope with her loss. Pictured: The former coupe during Courtney's pregnancy](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/08/17/48F931E900000578-5359315-Courtney_had_a_miscarriage_when_she_was_13_weeks_pregnant_in_201-a-14_1518111366403.jpg)
Courtney had a miscarriage when she was 13 weeks pregnant in 2016. She admitted she turned to a cocktail of pills and champagne to cope with her loss. Pictured: The former coupe during Courtney’s pregnancy
![After the miscarriage, Courtney said Doug supported her 'every step of the way', even when she shaved her hair off (pictured) as a coping mechanism for her grief of losing the baby](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/08/17/48F931E500000578-5359315-After_the_miscarriage_Courtney_said_Doug_supported_her_every_ste-a-11_1518111366317.jpg)
After the miscarriage, Courtney said Doug supported her ‘every step of the way’, even when she shaved her hair off (pictured) as a coping mechanism for her grief of losing the baby
‘I need to make mistakes and go through pain. I started to do that and Doug wasn’t really a fan.
‘He wanted to protect me, and it kind of turned into resentment for me. I needed to grow on my own. I couldn’t really do that with Doug with the fatherly marriage.
‘He didn’t like that and he was heartbroken. It still hurts me that he is still heartbroken. It is obvious that he is.’
As the pair coped with the aftermath of the split, Doug asked Courtney to come to Michigan with him to get clean, claiming she was on Xanax and was partying too hard.
However she says she has no such problem, and is not addicted to fame or the party lifestyle of Hollywood.
Adamantly denying his claim she said: ‘I am not on drugs. The only drugs I am on right now is an anti-depressant – Lexapro. I feel the best I ever have right now for a long time.
‘I am not addicted to fame, I am addicted to my dreams and goals. And as a young woman I am not going to be ashamed of it.
‘I am here in Hollywood because I have a passion for music and singing.’
Courtney says she is also seeing a therapist and taking time to cry over the relationship alone to help her combat her anxiety and depression.
She added she does not think she will end up dying at a young age like her idol, Marilyn Monroe, a fear which Doug has for her: ‘I see the beauty in Marilyn, she is a very smart woman, She played into that image.
‘I am not going to end up like Marilyn Monroe. Maybe Doug is worried I am. But I am healthy now and I feel great.’
![In January, Courtney put out a desperate plea on Instagram, asking for her husband back, despite the fact she was now seeing Chris. She had been texting Doug regularly, but it was the first time she told him she wanted him back in her life via social media](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/08/17/48EFD92800000578-5359315-In_January_Courtney_put_out_a_desperate_plea_on_Instagram_asking-a-13_1518111366402.jpg)
In January, Courtney put out a desperate plea on Instagram, asking for her husband back, despite the fact she was now seeing Chris. She had been texting Doug regularly, but it was the first time she told him she wanted him back in her life via social media
![Looking back, Courtney said she made the plea in 'a weak moment' because she was 'scared' of being alone. Pictured: The aspiring singer's desperate message to her estranged husband](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/08/17/48EFD93100000578-5359315-Looking_back_Courtney_said_she_made_the_plea_in_a_weak_moment_be-a-15_1518111366425.jpg)
Looking back, Courtney said she made the plea in ‘a weak moment’ because she was ‘scared’ of being alone. Pictured: The aspiring singer’s desperate message to her estranged husband
Courtney was also upset Doug suggested she was using Chris for his money because she was broke: ‘I am healing financially and healing emotionally.
‘I think maybe the reason he claimed I was broke was to be honest I was the bread winner in the relationship.
‘And that is a huge misconception by the world and I have to admit I played into it. I didn’t want to say ”Doug isn’t really making any money.” So I continued to play the bimbo Ann-Nicole thing.
‘Now I am in a beautiful home where I am paying half the rent and it is $10,000 a month.’
Doug also suggested Courtney’s new man Chris started sleeping with his wife while they were still together, and he left his own spouse to be with Courtney.
She insists she never consummated her relationship with Chris until she was officially separated from Doug: ‘The hard part and toxic part of the whole thing was we were still living together.
‘When Chris and I first met, Doug and I had been separated for about four months.
‘I wasn’t sleeping with Chris at that time. I made a vow I wouldn’t sleep with anyone else during that separation.
‘I find these comments frustrating, because in his first marriage when he was older than me, Doug was not faithful to his wife at all. I was extremely faithful to Doug.
‘The divorce was going through when Chris and I slept together.’
She added: ‘I met Chris when he was already going through a divorce with his ex wife. He did not leave his ex wife for me I am not a home wrecker. I support women, I support love.’
Courtney revealed her new relationship is unconventional but in a different way.
![Courtney said: 'I met Chris when he was already going through a divorce with his ex wife. He did not leave his ex wife for me I am not a home wrecker. I support women, I support love.' Pictured: The new couple together in Las Vegas](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/08/17/48E6E38E00000578-5359315-Courtney_said_I_met_Chris_when_he_was_already_going_through_a_di-a-10_1518111366256.jpg)
Courtney said: ‘I met Chris when he was already going through a divorce with his ex wife. He did not leave his ex wife for me I am not a home wrecker. I support women, I support love.’ Pictured: The new couple together in Las Vegas
![Courtney says of Sheng: 'He is helping me get on my feet. We are first and foremost friends. I am 23 – he is 37. It is like things might change and I need time to myself. It's hard on him but he is aware with it.' Pictured: The new home the couple will be renting together](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/08/17/48EF7FCE00000578-5359315-Courtney_says_of_Sheng_He_is_helping_me_get_on_my_feet_We_are_fi-a-17_1518111366543.jpg)
Courtney says of Sheng: ‘He is helping me get on my feet. We are first and foremost friends. I am 23 – he is 37. It is like things might change and I need time to myself. It’s hard on him but he is aware with it.’ Pictured: The new home the couple will be renting together
She says of Chris: ‘He is helping me get on my feet. We are first and foremost friends. I am 23 – he is 37. It is like things might change and I need time to myself. It’s hard on him but he is aware with it.’
However it has not all been easy.
In January, Courtney put out a desperate plea on Instagram, asking for her husband back, despite the fact she was now seeing Chris.
She had been texting Doug regularly, but it was the first time she told him she wanted him back in her life via social media.
She says she made the plea in ‘a weak moment’ because she was ‘scared’ of being alone.
Courtney said: ‘I reached out to him and told him I was having second thoughts, I can explain that and I can take responsibility for my irrational actions. I have major trust issues.’
She was caught on camera sobbing on the arm of new boyfriend Chris, as she struggled to come to terms with the end of her marriage: ‘The pressure has been difficult. And it all became too much.
‘I was really afraid once this divorce goes through, Doug is going to flip me the bird and ‘you know what, f**k you, you screwed me over and I am not going to be in your life anymore.’ He based our relationship purely on the marriage.
‘That freaked me out. A week before submitting our divorce, I was like ‘oh my God this guy is going to leave me.’
She added when Doug then invited her to come to Michigan she turned the invite down because she wanted to grow on her own: ‘I did not think it was going to be a healthy situation for me to move to Michigan. I am not addicted to fame, I am addicted to healing.’
![Courtney is also now indulging in her passion of singing and working on an EP: 'I can feel like I can breath right now and I am healthy and happy'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/08/17/48EF7FB200000578-5359315-Courtney_is_also_now_indulging_in_her_passion_of_singing_and_wor-a-18_1518111366553.jpg)
Courtney is also now indulging in her passion of singing and working on an EP: ‘I can feel like I can breath right now and I am healthy and happy’
‘I think for the both of us it is time to have time apart to heal. And if he really loves me and I really love him we will eventually be friends. If we have boundaries.
‘I don’t think that Doug is supportive of the fact I have bigger aspirations for my life.
‘I will take responsibility for the fact of giving Doug false hope. I am not proud of it.’
She admits Chris was ‘furious’ saying: ‘He was like, ‘This girl man!’ But when I explained it to him he understood, the unconventional relationship Doug and I have. And he stood by me. That made me feel really good.’
Now Courtney says she is moving on from her marriage and is planning a bright new future: ‘Surprisingly [despite] all the stress that comes with a divorce I am actually feeling the best I have ever felt in my life.
‘I am figuring out my life and [dealing with] having the weight of a marriage to a man older than my father.’
She is also now indulging in her passion of singing and working on an EP: ‘I can feel like I can breath right now and I am healthy and happy. I am spending time with my dogs, Cappuccino and Cupcake.
‘I am getting close with my mom again and my sisters. I haven’t met my nieces or nephews yet.
‘I definitely lost a lot of family when I was with Doug. I lost boundaries when I was with Doug.’
She is also indulging in her passion of singing: ‘I am working with Horsehead on a new album it’s going to be absolutely amazing.
‘I have a lot of emotions and pain and I am putting that into my art, my music. The first single is called 16 and it expresses my sorrow and feelings towards Doug.
‘I speak to him through the song. It is kind of my send off to him, a kind of love video. I hope he takes it gracefully. I am doing good, I am healing in every aspect and I can’t wait to see what the future holds.’