HGTV star Nicole Curtis is returning with a brand new home renovation project this summer for the first time in three years after reportedly suffering a “devastating” setback in her personal life.
Curtis did not share the nature of the “setback,” but opened up about how it forced her to reevaluate her priorities – and may have led her to find the Wyoming home she’ll be renovating in the new season of Rehab Addict.
“I had a setback in my life that just rocked me to the core, and it was one of those moments where I thought, how do I get through this one?” Curtis recently told People. “I prayed on it and it was just devastating for me. I had to make a decision right there and then like, ‘Okay, we’re going to let this affect us for a very long time, or we’re going to pick it up and go.’”
This marks her second time returning to HGTV after a hiatus. She first took a hiatus from 2018 to 2022 when she returned with the spinoff series Rehab Addict Rescue. Now, she’s back on HGTV with the ninth season of Rehab Addict.
Though she did not get into detail about what she has been up to during her three-year hiatus, Curtis wrote in a recent social media post, “Taking 3 years to build my own production company, develop my own shows and save 2 houses at the same time 1500 miles apart – walk in the park… Tune-in and see what I’ve been keeping secret and why I’m still as passionate as I was in Season 1 in 2010.”
The HGTV star told People how she came across the home that she will be renovating in the new upcoming season of Rehab Addict when a solo trip to Paris and Greece went wrong in July 2022.
As Curtis described it, she bought the 1890s Wyoming house sight unseen when a trip to Paris and Greece went wrong in 2022. “I didn’t have a credit card on me. I had $72 of change in dollar bills stashed in my bag. So I landed in Paris without a wallet. I thought, well, you know what? This is it. This is my test. I’m going to figure it out,” she said. Instead of continuing her trip as planned, she made her way back to Wyoming to start on her new project.
Now, fans will get to see the Rehab Addict star revive that 1890s Wyoming home get some much-needed TLC when the series returns.
“This house needed me and I needed this house,” she said.
In addition to the Wyoming home that she purchases sight unseen, Curtis will also be restoring “one of the dirtiest abandoned homes she’s ever seen,” per a press release.
Episodes will be available to stream next day on HBO Max and Discovery+.
Rehab Addict premieres on HGTV Tuesday, June 24, at 9/8c.