Estranged wife of former 'Try Guys' member Ned Fulmer recalls how she found out she was being cheated on
Ariel Fulmer, the estranged wife of ex-"The Try Guys" member Ned Fulmer, revealed how she found out about his affair three years ago.
In the first episode of Ned's Rock Bottom podcast, Ariel said she knew that Ned was cheating on her "'from the fans," adding that one of them sent her a photo of him and his mistress together.
"It was like my brain couldn't compute," she recalled. "For some reason, I couldn’t see what was actually there. I thought it was your sister, and I remember sending it to you and being like, 'What’s your sister doing in New York?'"
Looking back, she now wonders how she "did not see what was going on."
"What was so f***ed up in my brain that I couldn’t see what was happening in that picture?" she continued.
Ariel said that Ned's cheating scandal made her lose trust not only in her then-partner and close friends but also the public.
"I just stayed inside because there were cameras everywhere. It was so unsafe. It took a long time to get back to myself," she recalled.
While the two have separated after 13 years of marriage, they remain good friends for the sake of their kids.
"We are still friends, we have children together, we go on trips together," Ned said. "There is a spectrum of being together-not together. There's ways in which we’re together, but the way that everyone wants to know, like, 'Are you still, like, an item? Are you still a couple?' No."
However, Ariel shared that she has yet to forgive Ned for cheating on her.
"People ask me, 'Do you forgive Ned for what he did?' How can you forgive somebody for lying to you? For cheating on you. No. F**k no," she said.
The release of the episode came after Ned broke his silence on the 2022 cheating scandal.
Speaking to PEOPLE Magazine on Sept. 16, Ned said he "wanted nothing to do with social media or the internet" for a while after the issue came to light. "I didn't think it was particularly beneficial to my mental health."
During his hiatus, he shared that he tried to fix things by being completely honest with his then-wife.
“That was most devastating to work through and to realize—how much pain I had caused her,” he told the outlet. “If I were looking at a past version of myself, how I’d really want to change [is] the way I’d been interacting with her.”
"The Try Guys" announced Ned’s exit from the group on Instagram in September 2022 amid his cheating issue. “As a result of a thorough internal review, we do not see a path forward together,” they wrote in a joint statement at the time, thanking their fans for their support as they “navigate this change.”
Ned first appeared in a "Try Guys" video in September 2014, while the group was still working under the entertainment company BuzzFeed. They later formed their own production company, dubbed "2nd Try," four years later.
