Alix Earle would be the first to admit that, for a moment there, her world was a bit of a hot mess.

Though she was just in elementary school at the time, the Dancing With the Stars standout still remembers the day back in 2008 when mom Alisa Earle ushered her and younger sister Ashtin Earle out of their New Jersey home—which had been swarmed by photographers—and over to their cousins' house.

"We stayed there for a few days and I had no idea what was going on," she reflected on a 2023 episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast. "I didn't know they were paparazzi. I thought news broadcasters were interviewing the neighbors."

It would be a few years before she'd get the full report of her dad Thomas "TJ" Earle 's affair with her now-stepmom Ashley Dupré .

"I started to

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