NEW YORK _ Anthony Scaramucci never let his wife know he was going to work in the White House, and it almost ruined his marriage.
That's how "The Mooch" and his wife Deirdre Ball explained their temporary breakup that began during the financier's 11-day stint as White House communications director.
"I knew that he always had political ambitions, but this kind of happened, and we never really discussed it before," Ball said in an interview on "Dr. Phil" Tuesday.
"He's really motivated, which I admire, obviously, and I love about him. But, you know, in some situations you would want to have that conversation especially these types of conversations."
Ball filed for divorce in July 2017 as Scaramucci was settling into his short-lived role in the Trump administration.
Scaramucci admitted the job took a toll on his relationship and realized he had to get his priorities straight.
"I became overly ambitious, I became misguided and I ended up doing things that today I totally regret," he said on the show. "There's two things you have to do, one, forgive yourself and the other thing is the people that you love you have to actually turn to and ask for forgiveness."
Scaramucci, 54, was rumored to be canoodling with Fox News' Kimberly Guilfoyle during his breakup, but rekindled with Ball by late November.
Flanked by her husband on "Dr. Phil," she recalled the couple having "marital tension" while he campaigned alongside President Donald Trump, who she doesn't appear to be a fan of.
"We have a young son who was 3 at the time and I was also expecting another baby," she said. "I was like, where's Anthony? I miss Anthony."
But things got even tougher once Trump was elected, Ball said, "which was completely surprising to me, at least," adding the Republican's victory was "tough on me and my family."
Scaramucci wasn't present when Ball gave birth to their son, instead attending a Boy Scouts' jamboree in West Virginia _ where Trump detailed his partying days in the 1970s.
At one point he tried to have a paternity test done on his newborn son, but dropped the effort in September _ about two months before the couple's reconciliation.
Scaramucci's vaulting ambition led to his eventual firing less than two weeks on the job, after a profanity laced phone call with then-New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza.
"It was a person from Long Island, actually an Italian guy whose father worked with my father in the construction industry," he said of Lizza, who he'd called about finding the source of a leak. "I thought the phone call was off the record, and I was talking to him in a very neighborly way."
Scaramucci claimed then-White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus was a "paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac."
"I'm not a backstabber; I'm a frontstabber," he said on "Dr. Phil." "I'm going to tell you directly to your face what I think. And I was very honest about what I thought was going on inside the White House."
John Kelly, who replaced Priebus, fired Scaramucci for his conduct after just 11 days on the job.
"I'm waking up on the 12th day to full-blown humiliation," he said in an interview with "Dr. Phil." "I'm on 45 newspapers internationally. I'm lit up on all the national news, the international news and the cable channels. Man, they're relentless."
He boasted about his short time, however, claiming he knocked four of the biggest leakers out of the White House" without saying exactly who.
