Jennie Garth is getting candid about her ups and downs.
The What I Like About You actress has released her memoir, I Choose Me: Chasing Joy, Finding Purpose & Embracing Reinvention, in which she reflects on her years in Hollywood, and her life’s highs and lows.
Among the lows she discusses is her 2012 divorce from Peter Facinelli, and she’s just revealed the exact comment that made her realize he was right in wanting to go their separate ways.
Speaking on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, Jennie revealed that in the midst of her separation from Peter, who she married in 1995, a couple’s counselor asked her why she would want to be with someone who didn’t love her anymore.
“That’s where everything hit the fan,” she said, noting that the comment became a persistent echo.
“I’ll never forget it. That just gutted me, and I was like, ‘Yeah, no [expletive]. Give up, it’s time,” she added.
© FilmMagicJennie also recalled the moment during their separation when Peter confirmed to her that he wanted a divorce, when he came to visit her in a farm in central California, and, while speaking inside an RV, he insisted: “Jen, someday you’ll thank me for this,” which she said “infuriated me, that [expletive] me off.”
Jennie and Peter met in 1995 while filming the movie An Unfinished Affair — Jennie was previously married musician Daniel B. Clark from 1994 to 1996 — and tied the knot in 2001.
They are parents to three daughters, Luca Bella, 28, Lola Ray, 23, and Fiona Even, 19. Peter, 52, is also a dad to son Jack, three, who he shares with fiancée Lily Anne Harrison, 37.
© Getty Images for FerreroJennie has since remarried, tying the knot with fellow actor David Abrams in July 2015, after meeting on a blind date the prior year. Though they separated in 2017 and filed for divorce in 2018, in 2019, they reconciled and filed to dismiss the divorce proceedings.
© InstagramThe Beverly Hills, 90210 alum also recently opened up about forgiving Peter, telling People she “noticed my light really dimming. I noticed I wasn’t putting off good vibes. And I could see it in the mirror. I could look at the negative impact that that kind of grief and anger was having on me.”
“I don’t know, there was a weird switch where one day I just said, ‘I don’t want to carry this anymore. I have done this for long enough. It’s impacting my relationships with other people. It’s impacting how I feel about myself. I’ve got to let it go. I’ve got to forgive him,'” she shared. “And then I did. And it was the most freeing thing in the world.”
Read the full article here
