- Jenna Dewan spoke about the end of her marriage to Channing Tatum in a new interview.
- “I was just gutted. It was so difficult for me,” she told People. “It was the loss of an idealistic future for myself and my life. What does that now look like for me? Where do I begin? I met him when I was 24, I didn’t know life without Chan.”
- She said the breakup didn’t happen “overnight,” but rather came about after a “slow realization that we wanted different things.”
- Dewan, who’s expecting a child with boyfriend Steve Kazee, said she’s now “living in a very joyful new place in my life.”
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Jenna Dewan reflected on the end of her marriage to Channing Tatum in a new interview.
“I always say no one gets married to hopefully get divorced,” the former “World of Dance” host told People about deciding to end her almost nine-year marriage to her “Step Up” costar.
“People grow and they change and sometimes they don’t grow and change together. So it wasn’t a overnight thing that happened,” she said. “There was no one event. I think it was just a slow realization that we wanted different things.”
The pair announced their separation in April 2018, with Dewan filing for divorce six months later. The dancer said the initial split took a major toll on her.
“I was just gutted. It was so difficult for me,” she told the magazine.
She continued: “It was the loss of an idealistic future for myself and my life. What does that now look like for me? Where do I begin? I met him when I was 24, I didn’t know life without Chan.”
While Dewan leaned on her closest friends and family for support during her divorce, she said she had to face her new future on her own. She chose to embrace the changes and figured out “what means a lot” to her.
“I’m grateful that I now am at a place where I understand myself and what I want and I’m happy about this new chapter.” she said.
In October 2018, the actress was confirmed to be dating actor Steve Kazee. The couple are now expecting their first child together.
“Ultimately now I can honestly say that I’m living in a very joyful new place in my life, and I’m happy about it,” she said.
There have still been some adjustments post-split for Dewan and Tatum, who share 6-year-old daughter Everly Tatum.
“We’re all aware that it’s a new normal, we’re all getting used to it,” she said. “You can still have a relationship and just because the forms change as to who you are to each other, it doesn’t take away from the love that we had or that we shared all those years.”
Tatum has been dating singer Jessie J since October 2018.
