Countess LuAnn de Lesseps is known for being outspoken on The Real Housewives of New York City and now she’s speaking out to RadarOnline.com exclusively with her top tips for a ‘friendly divorce.’

Nowadays, the mother-of-two is enjoying a romance with a younger man and raising her two children Victoria and Noel. But just two years ago she faced a more trying time during the breakup of her marriage from French husband Alexandre de Lesseps.

However, de Lesseps says that despite press speculation that infidelity resulted in the end of her relationship and they endured a bitter separation, she maintains that it was quite the opposite.