For months now, everyone has been wondering what’s going on between Love Island exes Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury. After announcing their shock break-up on Instagram back in August, the pair raised eyebrows when they were spotted kissing at a New Year’s Eve party, suggesting a reunion could be on the cards. They’ve since fuelled rumours further, with Tommy being pictured leaving her Manchester mansion – the house they once shared – on multiple occasions.
Molly-Mae has largely kept quiet about the situation, but last week, she finally opened about their reported reconciliation as she released the first three episodes of her new Prime Video docuseries, Molly-Mae: Behind It All.
Breaking her silence at her series launch event, Molly-Mae, 25 – who shares two-year-old daughter Bambi with Tommy, also 25 – told heat, ‘We are navigating a really complicated time in both of our lives in the public eye and this is a whole new territory for me. We are both ultimately figuring it out as adults and as parents.’
The Love Island 2019 favourite – who will be dropping part two of the series in the spring – added that ‘the last thing I want is any confusion’ over her relationship status, saying, ‘We’ve tried to explain things the best we can.’
Just days before her docu aired, Tommy addressed the cause of their split for the first time in a candid interview. After multiple rumours claimed that he had been unfaithful – something he always denied – the boxer revealed that it was actually his spiralling problems with alcohol after sustaining a sports injury that ended their relationship.
'Cheating was never a thing. You can ask Molly this yourself. It was the drink and the drink is not a good thing,’ he said.
Molly-Mae echoed this in her show, explaining that she had a no-tolerance policy with alcohol after her mum Debbie had turned to drink following her divorce from her dad.
‘Tommy wanted to have a family life, but then also have the life of a 25-year-old boy with no responsibilities, and the two don't go hand in hand,’ she said.
‘Tommy never had an alcohol problem, it's just that alcohol caused problems for us. It got to a point where I wasn't really looking forward to anything because alcohol affected it so much. At my sister’s wedding, I literally pleaded with Tommy, I begged him to not drink.’
She also revealed that co-parenting Bambi means that the pair – who met on Love Island in 2019 and got engaged four years later – are always going to be in each other’s lives.
‘I never ever wanted Bambi to come from a broken home, because I did come from a broken home,’ she explained.
‘All I ever wanted is for me and him to get married next year, which we’d already started planning, have more children and live a really happy life together. Right now, at this moment, I don’t know what the future holds for Tommy and I. I really don’t. But I’d be lying if I said that my love just disappeared overnight. I think at the minute, he’s trying to better himself. He’s taking time to work on himself and he wants to make things right.’
And with Tommy confirming in his interview that he’d ‘got himself out’ of the ‘cycle’ he’d fallen into with drinking, the pair seem to be on the path to reuniting for good.
However, given the timing, Molly-Mae has been quick to shut down accusations of a ‘publicity stunt’. She insisted, ‘People saying, “This has obviously all been done as a publicity stunt” – that is very painful for me because it’s real life. I wish it was a publicity stunt because it would be a lot easier, but it isn’t and I think this documentary will clear up any questions about that.’