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Allie Eklund has closed the book on her relationship with ex-boyfriend Steven McBee Jr. after he accused her of cheating on him at Stagecoach Music Festival last month.
“I have no plans to speak to him ever again,” Eklund, 29, told TMZ on Wednesday, May 6, while in Los Angeles for work. “We just aren’t speaking. There’s nothing else to say.”
The model claimed that she “tried to encourage” McBee, 33, to “get help a while ago” for his anger issues “and he declined.”
Eklund noted that she is “happy that he’s seeking it out now,” referring to The McBee Dynasty star’s recent voluntary stay at a trauma retreat following their explosive breakup in April. (Eklund denied the allegations of cheating after McBee accused her of getting cozy with a man at the music festival the moment he flew home. The man also denied the claims.)
When it comes to her own mental health, Eklund told the outlet on Wednesday, “I’ve had better days for sure, but I’m hanging in there.”
The influencer shared that she’s been “spending a lot of time with my family and my support system, so I’m very thankful for them.”
Eklund then teased that “what’s next” for her was “a martini” as she was in West Hollywood for a birthday dinner.
“A martini is what’s next for me. Maybe a couple martinis,” she said with a laugh.
Eklund’s decision to cut McBee out of her life completely comes just weeks after the rancher publicly accused her of cheating at Stagecoach, which took place from April 24 through April 26.
“I still don’t know exactly what happened,” McBee said in a since-deleted Instagram video posted on April 27. “I just know there was hand holding, grinding, dancing, drunken stupor at an afterparty.”
McBee claimed in a series of Instagram Stories that after he left California for Missouri, he got “two calls” about Eklund’s alleged infidelity. He also alleged he had video proof that she was getting cozy with “one person at the gym” and being “drunk and cheating at an afterparty.”
Eklund, who started dating McBee in fall 2025, denied the allegations in her own Instagram Story statement on April 27.
“Posting everything online before we talked is extremely disheartening and extremely unfair, considering l’ve protected Steven many times during the course of our relationship,” she claimed. “I chose not to respond to [Steven] immediately because he has a history of verbally abusing me while he’s in a heightened emotional state, and I felt it was more appropriate to have a private, level-headed conversation once emotions had settled.”
Eklund then shared a series of alleged text messages McBee sent to her in a his fit of anger, including one calling her a “f***ing hooker.”
McBee accused Eklund of taking her “tits out for literally everyone at Stagecoach” and called her “slutty” before allegedly texting her to come pick up her stuff from his place.
Eklund, for her part, noted in her Instagram Story that despite McBee’s actions, she just wanted to move forward and leave the relationship in the past.
“I’m not looking to escalate things any further. I’d like this to end here,” Eklund concluded. “I’ve said what feels necessary in response to his actions and I plan on taking time to process and move forward.”
The next day, a source exclusively told Us Weekly that although McBee and Eklund had “only been dating for about seven months,” the pair had talked about “getting engaged this year.”
The insider noted they were “very serious” before the Stagecoach scandal.
McBee, meanwhile, issued another statement on April 29 apologizing for the “cruel and degrading” text messages he sent Eklund. “No level of personal hurt and betrayal justifies the language I used and I am ashamed of those messages,” he wrote.
McBee exclusively told Us on Friday, May 1, that he’d checked himself into a trauma retreat and was taking responsibility for his regretful actions toward Eklund.
“I am embarrassed, humiliated for myself, my family,” McBee said. “I handled it poorly, without a doubt.”
The Bravo personality admitted that he does have “an anger problem,” and the six-day retreat would hopefully help him break the “family cycle of trauma” he carries with him.
“The anger, the high-intensity emotions that I have, it’s something that I’ve experienced growing up. I hate to say it’s genetic or passed down, but I saw it growing up,” McBee explained. And I don’t want to say it became the norm because I know that’s not OK. But it’s harder to break the cycle than I thought.”
Season 3 of McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys premieres this summer on Bravo and will be available to stream next day on Peacock.
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