Ashley Jacobs confirmed that she and Thomas Ravenel have called it quits on Instagram Live on Wednesday, according to PEOPLE. “I don’t want to comment but there are just some things I’m trying to handle privately,” she said. “Before I say too much, I love Thomas and I’ll always love Thomas. I’ll always care about him.” The Southern Charm couple first met in Ashley's home state of California in May 2017. She then moved to Charleston to be with Thomas in August of last year after the two started dating. Now Ashley is focused on figuring out what the future holds for her. “I’m still trying to work it out, not work out getting back together, but I’m still trying to figure it out,” she said during the Instagram Live. “I think everyone’s been through breakups before but it’s hard. It’s not easy … Sometimes you just want to stay quiet and figure out what the next move in your life is going to be … I’m just trying to take care of myself the best way that I can.” Ashley commemorated the one-year anniversary of her move to Charleston on Instagram earlier this month. She also reflected on the past in a recent post on Instagram. "I am who I am today because of my failures. I am compassionate because I’ve failed. I am understanding because I’ve failed. I am more emotionally aware because I’ve failed. I’m smarter because I’ve failed. And I understand the values and beliefs of the things that matter in life because of those failures. So I would never take them back. I would never go back in time and change a single thing," she shared. "As C.S. Lewis stated so beautifully, 'You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.'" When The Daily Dish caught up with Ashley in July, she confirmed that she was still working as a nurse in Charleston and that things were "going great" in her relationship with Thomas. "We’re stronger, you know, what doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger. I think that we are really the most raw that we have ever been with each other and cutting off all those layers and just getting to the heart of it, there’s been a lot of tears, anger, frustration, stress, sadness," she said. "He’s really been someone I can lean on, I can depend on, and he’s been a really good friend through it all." Though the two were still talking about the possibility of marriage at the time, Ashley shared that they had also had conversations about a future in which they weren't together. "He’s said this before in the past that, 'These are your most precious years right now,' and he goes, 'I don’t want to take those away from you.' He knows marriage is so important to me, and I believe in that. So I tell him I think there’s something beautiful about belonging to somebody like that and wearing a ring, and that symbolizes that a person belongs to somebody. He loves that, and he’s all for it. He's very romantic," she told The Daily Dish. "But he did say to me the other day, he goes, 'If it didn't work out, I’d probably be the one that would say that I know I don’t want to keep these years from you and that I realize that I can’t be what you need, and I know that it’s going to hurt me more than it’s going to hurt you.' It just stings because if we don’t go down that path then I know he’s letting me go not because he wants to be this player or this playboy or that he doesn’t want to commit; it's just that he turns 56 in a few weeks. He's done a lot, and I haven't, so I think that that’s very unselfish of him." Ashley opens up more about her relationship with Thomas, below.<doc-sep>Thomas Ravenel and Ashley Jacobs are over, again. It was reported last week that the 56-year-old former South Carolina politician and former Southern Charm star and his 33-year-old girlfriend, who also appeared on the reality show, broke up after dating for a year, then got back together immediately. But on Wednesday on Instagram Live, Jacobs revealed that the two had split. "I don't want to comment but there are just some things I'm trying to handle privately," she said tearfully, according to People. "Before I say too much, I love Thomas and I'll always love Thomas. I'll always care about him." "I'm still trying to work it out, not work out getting back together, but I'm still trying to figure it out," she added. "I think everyone's been through breakups before but it's hard. It's not easy...Sometimes you just want to stay quiet and figure out what the next move in your life is going to be...I'm just trying to take care of myself the best way that I can." Jacobs, a registered nurse, added, "You guys know some eligible bachelors, hook me up. They don't have to have money. I'm OK with that. I just want someone to love me for me. It's never been about money. Like I said, I work hard. I wouldn't quit my job. I drive my cute little Honda. I'm okay."<doc-sep>Ashley Jacobs is accepting her share of the blame for her split from Thomas Ravenel. Jacobs, 33, discussed her breakup with Ravenel, 55 — which came after more than a year of dating, as captured on Southern Charm season 5 — on her Instagram Live. Get push notifications with news, features and more. “I made a lot of mistakes, and there’s things that I just shouldn’t have said,” said Jacobs, a registered nurse. “I just should have kept my mouth shut. It was not my place. And I think the hardest thing is going to bed every night and thinking how different things would be in my life right now had I just shut my mouth. So I do. I beat myself up a lot.” She was seemingly referencing her tumultuous time on the show, during which she clashed with Ravenel’s ex Kathryn Dennis, calling her “an egg donor” rather than the true mother to his two young children. southern-charm-1 From left: Ashley Jacobs, Thomas Ravenel and Kathryn Dennis | Credit: Bravo The Bravo star continued, “I hope I can look back and smile. I feel bad for anyone I hurt. It just wasn’t my place. I learned and I wish I could go back. I wish I could change things. But I can only move forward. You can’t change the beginning but I can change the ending.” Ashley-Jacobs Credit: Ashley Jacobs/Instagram Jacobs moved from Montecito, California, to South Carolina, after meeting Ravenel in May 2017. “Thomas got me out of California, which is the hardest thing, and I thank him for that,” Jacobs said on Instagram Live. “I needed that shove. I needed that push. Now that I’m out, I can do anything. The sky’s the limit. Everyone says, ‘Go back to California.’ Just because I don’t talk to the people on the show doesn’t mean there aren’t wonderful people in South Carolina. I have some great friends and I just feel super blessed and fortune to have met them.” She thanked her well-wishers as she weathers the split: “I appreciate reading everyone’s encouraging messages. Even though a lot of you guys are strangers, and you don’t know me and I don’t know you, it’s really nice to have your support.” RELATED VIDEO: Shep Rose Says Things ‘Aren’t Always as They Appear’ When it Comes to Thomas, Kathryn & Ashley’s Love Triangle Meanwhile, Ravenel quit Southern Charm in the midst of a sexual assault investigation. “I’m not doing the show anymore,” he wrote on his now-protected Twitter page. “In the contract they have the right to fictionalize your story. They took advantage of me. I decided I’ve got too much to lose and informed them I’m not coming back.” PEOPLE confirmed in May that a person reported an alleged incident from January 2015. “Nanny Dawn,” the former caretaker to Ravenel’s children, claimed to PEOPLE to be the victim. Ashley Perkins also accused Ravenel of assaulting her mother Debbie Holloway Perkins in late 2015. Ravenel denied the allegations through his attorney.<doc-sep>Thomas Ravenel is done with “Southern Charm.” “I’m not doing the show anymore. In the contract they have the right to fictionalize your story. They took advantage of me. I decided I’ve got too much to lose and informed them I’m not coming back,” he tweeted from his private account on Tuesday afternoon. He has been a main cast member since the show’s inception in 2014, with his storylines centering around his relationship with Kathryn Dennis and their custody battle over their children, Kensie, 4, and Saint, 2. Ravenel, 56, was accused of sexual assault by two women earlier this summer. He denied the claims, but Haymaker, the production company behind the show, began “conducting an investigation” shortly after and Bravo announced that he would not be at the reunion taping. Instead, his girlfriend Ashley Jacobs defended their relationship and his behavior in his absence during what she called an “intervention” by his castmates. The investigation is still pending, and now Ravenel could be facing another lawsuit as his ex-girlfriend Luzanne Otte retained legal counsel to fight against false allegations that he and Jacobs made about her on a blog. Bravo couldn’t immediately be reached.<doc-sep>
Sounds like Thomas Ravenel and Ashley Jacobs will need a new storyline for next season of “Southern Charm.” Jacobs, 33, revealed the couple split during an Instagram live video on Wednesday (via People), saying through tears: “I don’t want to comment but there are just some things I’m trying to handle privately. Before I say too much, I love Thomas and I’ll always love Thomas. I’ll always care about him.” “I’m still trying to work it out, not work out getting back together, but I’m still trying to figure it out. I think everyone’s been through breakups before but it’s hard. It’s not easy … Sometimes you just want to stay quiet and figure out what the next move in your life is going to be … I’m just trying to take care of myself the best way that I can.” Jacobs also revealed that she has gained 10 pounds since “Southern Charm” wrapped and she has started working out to get over the breakup blues. “You guys know some eligible bachelors, hook me up,” she told her followers. “They don’t have to have money. I’m okay with that. I just want someone to love me for me. It’s never been about money. Like I said, I work hard. I wouldn’t quit my job. I drive my cute little Honda. I’m okay.” Ravenel, 55, and Jacobs began dating in May 2017 and their relationship imploded on “Southern Charm.” Since then, they have deleted all traces of each other on social media. Ravenel is currently under investigation for sexual assault claims by two women. He claimed he was done with the show as a result earlier this week.