Quad Webb and King Kirk are officially over! They have unfollowed each other on social media and Quad released an official statement to TMZ.
"Kirk and I mutually decided to bring our relationship to a close in 2025. While our time together encompassed many meaningful moments, that chapter of my life has now concluded. I wish him well. In 2026, I am focused on moving forward with clarity and purpose."
Clean. Composed. Said absolutely nothing.
The statement came out shortly after King had already been out there throwing salty shade on Instagram and X. Here is how it went down — an IG user commented "I don't think they're together anymore" and King replied: "I can confirm that I left that situation." Then on X, after another user noted that Quad was lucky to have the ATL Exotic and Luxury Cars owner, King replied that her luck had run out.
So Quad called her connects at TMZ, got ahead of the storm and released her statement to save face. The PR was clean. The heartbreak underneath it was not.
But to really understand how we got here we have to go all the way back. Because this story did not start with a breakup. It started with a woman who had already lost quite a bit and needed a win badly.
Let's Take It All The Way Back
Quad Webb it seems found kirk King just in time. On Season 7 of Married to Medicine she was finally free. The divorce from Dr. Greg Lunceford was done. The ink was dry. She got her name back. The world had watched the whole thing unfold in HD — the marriage, the allegations, the tears, the reunion table that never really resolved anything. She left. And leaving took everything she had.
But here is the part that gets glossed over.
Freedom did not come with a soft landing. The talk show that was supposed to happen did not happen. The opportunities that were supposed to follow a breakout star quietly fell through. And the sisterhood she had helped build on that show started pulling away. Slowly at first and then all at once. By Season 9 her castmates did not want to travel with her, film with her or resolve anything with her. When your castmates stop engaging off camera, production has nothing to shoot. Quad Webb — the fan favorite, the breakout star — was being pushed out of her own show.
And then Greg came back.
Not quietly. He walked back onto her show with a new woman. Younger, bright eyed and ready to give him everything. He brought her into the fold and introduced her to the group like it was nothing. And Quad's own castmates — the same women who had been icing her out — embraced her warmly. By Season 10 Quad was asked to leave.
This was too much for Quad, the Atlanta IT girl. She had to do something. And she did.
Enter The King
As luck would have it she found her King. I mean — could he have had a better name? The universe was really doing the most.
King seemed like the perfect lifeline and we as viewers were more than happy for this come up story. Men are quick to move on and women are typically left alone but King checked every box that makes a woman say yes.
- Looks - King Kirk is very good looking with a delicious body which he showed off properly on vacation in Key West. That scene where he made a mad dash down the beach to basically flex on dad bod Dr. Greg lives rent free in our minds. He is chiseled and fit. Young, stylish and sexy — all of that energy aligned.
- Financially stable — he seemed equally yoked with Quad financially, maybe even well off enough that it did not seem like she would ever have to carry him. In Atlanta we hear too many stories of women doing exactly that. King seemed different. He paid for her 43rd birthday party. He wanted to see her happy. He reassured her. He encouraged her. The energy said this man likes me.
She traded in Metamucil for Flintstones vitamins and we were fully supportive of this decision. - White Knight vibes — check. Quad said God had prepared her for this relationship. That King was the man she had been manifesting — a far better man than Dr. Greg. They were best friends. Together 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Inseparable. They did not spend days apart. And we were rooting so hard that none of us stopped long enough to ask the quieter questions.
The Red Flags
But as we look back at this relationship, although we wanted to find love for her, there were red flags. And they were right there in plain sight.
- The "gifted" Rolls Royce. Let's take the emotion out of it and look at the structure. A Rolls Royce is an extremely expensive car. It would not raise a red flag if Jeff Bezos — a well documented billionaire — gifted his girlfriend a Rolls Royce because there is most likely no financial strain. But a working man gifting a Rolls Royce to a woman he will not even commit to moving in with feels performative and not real. It doesn't match the level of commitment and it may not match the cash flow. We eventually learn that King owns a luxury car rental company in Atlanta. So yes, given his access to luxury cars, he could provide her with a Rolls Royce. But is the usage attached to her being his girlfriend? That is the part that matters. Because it was not presented as access. It was presented as a birthday gift. And those are two very different things. If the relationship ends does she give the gift back?
- Then there was the sex. During a couples trip in Key West they were playing a game and the question came up — how many times do you make love a week? Their answer was twelve to fifteen times a week. The only other person who comes to mind with claims like that is Larsa Pippen, who said she had sex four times a night for 23 years and later said five times a night when she was dating Marcus Jordan. So why is this a red flag? When you are having that much sex it feels like you are not making enough time for conversation and getting to know each other on a less physical level. Sexual intensity can create the illusion of closeness without actually building it.
- And then came the conversation that should have been the pause button for everything.They could not cohabitate because neither one wanted to give up their home. Which led to this exchange:
King: "I'll never move into a woman's house. That's just the natural order of things."
Quad: "Who laid down the natural order of things?"
King: "I did."
This is an oh! oh! conversation. Two people who see the world fundamentally differently, who have not figured out where they will live, deciding to pursue IVF and try to bring a child into it together. That should have been the big red flag for both of them that they needed to spend more time understanding each other before trying to build a family.
But we were not paying attention. We were too busy watching the Rolls Royce pull up.
The Cracks
The season had already been filmed before the breakup announcement. But we are seeing the cracks in this week's episode — Med Gala Pay Back, Season 12, Episode 10.
Quad is back from the girls trip. King is in her home and she is warming up food for them to eat. And even this small gesture feels exhausting for her. Our alarms start going off immediately. Her vibe is off and his mental state seems completely lost on her energy. He is not picking up what she is putting down.
She hands him the wrong size fork for his fish and rice. Rather than just get the right one himself he expresses his displeasure.
King: "This is a baby fork. What am I supposed to do with this?"
Quad looks at him and says: "Have a baby. Feed the baby."
He could be joking, playing with her — but she is not in a joking place and it is clear from this exchange that they are not reading each other at all. "There is nothing baby about you" he says, still joking. But she is not ready for baby jokes.
As a viewer we get the sense that she is heartbroken about the failed IVF and the very real possibility that she may never be able to conceive. And he is just not there with her emotionally.
You can tell that this baby journey is not as pressing for King as it is for Quad. King already has a daughter. He is willing to give Quad a child but he has his limits and his patience with the emotional weight of this storyline is wearing thin.
He does not seem emotionally ready to meet her where she is. It feels like he is done with the moodiness that comes with fertility treatments. She notes that it feels like they are no longer approaching each other with the same warmth and kindness they once had.
The cracks get wider when they move to the patio.
He asks what happened on the girls trip. She starts to tell him and his response stops her mid sentence.
King: "I'm about to be done with this fish — can we get to the good part?"
He has lost patience with her completely. He cannot even hold it together for the cameras anymore.
Then she asks for a bite of his food. He refuses because she always complains about him eating her food. She reminds him that she asked — she did not just dig in with her fork. He says "we'll see." She says she lost her appetite. He says "okay, good."
King gave boredom, resentment and impatience.
Quad gave heartbreak, frustration and sadness.
The takeaway — if we did not already know this relationship was over, after this performance we would have started taking bets on its imminent demise.
This is a far cry from Season 11 King. When Quad was saying God had prepared her for this relationship and that King was the man she had been manifesting — a far better man than Dr. Greg. When he was paying for her birthday party and saying he wants to see her happy, he reassures me, he encourages me. When the energy said this man genuinely likes me. When they were best friends 24 hours a day 365 days a year and could not imagine spending a day apart.
They ran out of that energy. And when it was gone there was not enough underneath it to hold them together.
So How Do We Process This Relationship
So although this was packaged as an aspirational relationship and we were rooting for both of them, the reality is we were never really shown how their values aligned or how their lifestyles aligned. We saw the highlights. We filled in the rest ourselves because we wanted it to be true.
We understand now that grand gestures are not commitment. That love exists in navigating the mundane and dealing with the hard stuff. The hard stuff will find you eventually — in a kitchen, on a patio, in a conversation about a fork that was never really about the fork at all.
We are rooting for Quad Webb. We always will be. But we are taking notes.
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