He serves a mean leg of lam.
Charles Withers, the celeb chef said to have abandoned his family in Massachusetts a year ago, has finally reached out to estranged wife Ashley McGuire after her Facebook account of the incident went viral this week, the miffed mom of four confirmed.
The P.O.’d parent spoke to the radio station JAM’N 94.5 about the aftermath of her post to the popular social media group “Are We Dating the Same Guy,” which exposed her absent man.
McGuire said that Withers — who appeared on The Food Network TV show “Chopped” in 2022 and operated Falmouth’s C Salt Wine Bar and Grille — sent her a very plain text amid the scandal’s eruption.
“He reached out…and said he would be happy to talk to me,” McGuire, who said she was “ghosted” while pregnant with his second child last year.
She said his number had not changed, despite her suspecting otherwise. In total, McGuire said she has four children, two from before meeting Withers.
The frustrated femme’s very public plea sparked troves of amateur investigations and a slew of reaction videos, McGuire denied any ill will.
She said she just wanted to serve Withers, who fled to Texas, with divorce papers.
“My goal was not to disrupt his whole life. I just want to have the door closed and just move on.”
McGuire maintained she “could have been way worse” in her telling of the exodus events.
“I left a lot of details out,” the mom added. “I don’t have any ill will towards him. I did not intentionally make him, you know, the most hated man out there by any means.”
However, she still demands accountability from the Londoner.
“You just dug this hole in my life. Like you flipped my world upside down. The least you can do is not send me on a wild goose chase to find you. And just sign these papers.”
Adding insult to injury, other women had been in touch with McGuire to let her know that they had matched with Withers on dating apps like Bumble.
For those reasons, she knows Withers can pony up to support his family.
“If you can take these girls on Bumble out on dates and this, that, and the other thing, you can send a box of diapers,” she said.
“To just walk away from all responsibility, to just walk away like it never happened is just like, you can’t do that. You need to be held accountable.”
