Not a penny, eh?

Former Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler and reality TV star Kristin Cavallari tied the knot back in 2013, but the couple called it quits on their marriage in 2020, with the divorce being finalized in 2022. And it’s safe to say that it was a pretty nasty split, with cheating rumors flying around months before filing and a long, drawn-out process of splitting assets as Cutler reportedly asked for half of her business, Uncommon James.

And during a recent episode of her live podcast tour, Honestly Cavallari: The Headline Tour, Cavallari opened up on the split from her ex-husband and accusations that she managed to be successful because of her ex-husband’s money:

“Our revenue is close to $50 million a year, but because I was obviously a WAG – athletes’ wives and girlfriends, if you’re not familiar – people love to say that everything I have in my life is because of my ex-husband, and that my ex-husband funded Uncommon James. But I am, to this day, 100% owner, and I’ve never taken any outside funding.”

I have never gotten a penny from my ex-husband. I didn’t get any money from our divorce, so let’s just clear that up.”

But apparently the ex-husband took issue with the comments.

During a recent episode of his Take It Outside podcast, Cutler addressed Cavallari’s claims that she didn’t get a penny during their divorce, calling them “borderline slander” and an outright lie:

“I mean, let’s think about this logically. Not a penny. Okay.

Married for, I don’t know, seven years or so. Three kids. And you can go and see how much I made in the NFL. It’s online. I mean, you can see the contract from year to year and the total amount at the end of 12 years.

So you go to divorce, and each side gets a lawyer. And then you go to court and there’s a judge. In the state of Tennessee, if we would have went to the judge and been like, ‘Hey, he’s going to keep every single dollar over the past seven years and you’re going to get nothing.’ There’s not a judge in the state of Tennessee that would have signed that. They would be like, ‘No, this isn’t right. This isn’t legal. Not happening.’…

She has a lawyer. I have a lawyer. Is her lawyer really going to be like, ‘Fine, you get zero dollars. He gets to keep all the money that was made over the seven years.’ Absolutely not. That’s completely false…

It’s irresponsible. I think it’s reckless. I think it’s borderline slander to insinuate that there was zero dollars split during the marriage that each side got. It’s insanity. And it’s completely false, completely untrue. It is. It just is.”

Cutler also says that he has receipts to back up his claims that it was much more than “zero dollars.”

“I’ve got a divorce decree. I’ve got something that’s signed by the judge. It’s like 67 pages or something. It says exactly. It says the number breakdown. I’m not going to get into those exact numbers, but I can guarantee you it’s definitely not zero dollars.”

The former quarterback was also asked whether the amount Cavallari received in the divorce was enough to live “very comfortably,” and he didn’t hesitate:

“Without a doubt. Without an absolute doubt.”

Cutler called his wife’s comments “completely unnecessary,” and said that even if they had signed a prenup a judge wouldn’t have signed off on an agreement that gave nothing to his ex-wife:

“Hey, did I even have to address it, honestly? But it gets to a point where it’s just untrue. Very untrue.

And back to my point, there’s not a lawyer or a judge in the state of Tennessee that would say, no, we’re giving her zero dollars. They’d be like, this is not happening.

Even if you had a prenup that said zero dollars, the judge would still have a hard time signing off on that after a seven-year marriage. If let’s say that you and somebody else were married and you got a prenup that said, ‘Hey, it doesn’t matter what happens. It doesn’t matter if we have kids or not. She gets zero dollars at the end of this and I get everything.’

A judge is going to throw it out and be like, not happening. We’re not doing this.”

Obviously there’s no love lost between the former couple, but there’s a big difference between not getting a penny and getting enough to live “very comfortably.”

So what’s the truth? Well I guess the only way to know is to see the divorce decree, and right now that hasn’t been made public.