Tinsley ignored split ‘hints’

TINSLEY Mortimer wasn’t blindsided by her fiancé breaking up with her, according to his pals — she just wasn’t taking the hint.

Sources close to Mortimer told us that the former “Real Housewives of New York City” star was heartbroken when coupon king Scott Kluth suddenly ended their two-year engagement during a fight last Friday.

But sources in his camp said that Kluth has been “communicating” to the socialite-turned-reality star that it’s over for months — but Mortimer just wouldn’t accept it.

“Her perception of when they broke up is clearly different from Scott’s,” said an insider, “but Scott communicated to her that they were broken up months ago.”

On Friday, we reported that Tins’ friends were furious with Kluth because he had gone through an endless cycle of breaking up and getting back together with her, but when he proposed, she believed he meant it — so much so that she quit the Bravo show and moved to Chicago with him.

But then, they said, he was “suddenly . . . back to his old tricks again.”

When we ran the idea by Mortimer’s friends that Kluth had been trying to tell her, they said that if she was confused it was because of the “break-up-and-get-back-together cycle.”

“He would do that and then get back together with her,” they said. “It was ‘We’re together,’ then ‘Let’s take some space,’ then ‘We’re not together.’ A real mind f - - k.”

Added the pal, “This was the type of pattern he would do to her through the four years they were dating, and now that she left her career and basically everything for him, she had no choice but to try and make it work and stick it out with him through this unhealthy pattern.”

As we previously reported, insiders say that the Coupon-Cabin founder claimed to dislike the media attention that came with her role on the reality show, and he gave her an ultimatum near the end of 2019 that if she quit being a “Housewife,” he would marry her.