While Windy City Rehab was an instant success for HGTV and its co-stars, trouble began brewing not long after Season 1 aired, when Alison Victoria’s business partner/contractor, Donovan Eckhardt, lost his permit privileges in the city, as well as his contractor’s license, while lawsuits against the production began to pile up.

After going "through hell and back," the designer tells PEOPLE how she's continued to bounce back — and what fans can expect to see on the new season of the HGTV series

The show returns for season 5 on. Here, Alison Victoria tells us about the new season and the upcoming spinoff Scariest House in America.

The celebrity home designer will still be taking on gut rehabs, but they won't be on her dime — at least for now.

The HGTV star tells PEOPLE she wanted to surprise the filmmaker, who she says is "somebody who understands" what her world is like

Interior designer and star of HGTV’s Windy City Rehab Alison Victoria has found The One in filmmaker Brandt Andersen. “He’s it for me,” Victoria, 42, shares in the latest issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now.

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