From Nicole Kidman to Gwyneth Paltrow: when stars speak out about the pain of a divorce

Not all married couples are meant to stay together forever. And when a marriage ends it’s a vale of tears for everyone. Celeb understood. In recent days Gwyneth Paltrow, who also in 2014, at the time of her divorce from Chris Martin, made famous the now milestone definition of any drama-free separation – “conscious uncoupling” – He admitted: “I never wanted to be separated from my father and my children “. But it happened. And for Paltrow it was “terrible, painful and hard», As he had already told a few years ago:« A big failure ». The founder of Goop.com, now happily married (since 2018) with the producer Brad Falchuk, is certainly not the only celeb who has spoken in public about the pain of a divorce.

For example Nicole Kidman just did not expect the separation from Tom Cruise. Before he packed his bags leaving her after ten years of marriage, thought their “life together was perfect”. It is logical that the farewell, for her, was a very hard blow: “It was a shock. It took me a long time to get over it“. Even more explicit Drew Barrymore, which she called separation from her husband number three Will Kopelman “My worst nightmare”. While Jessica Simpson admitted that the divorce from first husband Nick Lachey was «like a death in the family, first there is the phase of sadness, then the rebellion and then suddenly life begins again. I loved marriage, the idea of ​​always waking up next to him, having a partner to make barbecues. And then it happens that people grow in separate directions. I speak very little about my divorce because it was an experience heartbreaking».

It didn’t get any better at Katy Perry that after the nightmare divorce from Russell Brand (he said goodbye after just fourteen months with a text message) he stayed in bed for two weeks. I was really in bad shape. I didn’t want to live “. Also Reese Witherspoon, after the end of the marriage with the first husband Ryan Philippe, he was deeply unhappy: “It was terrible. When others told me I would feel better, I thought they were crazy, because at that moment I believed that nothing in the world would ever make sense again».

Per Gwen Stefani separation from Gavin Rossdale after thirteen years and three children was a devastating experience: «My dreams were shattered. All I wanted in life was to have children, to be married, to have what my parents had had. ‘ However, she was able to transform so much pain into inspiration for her music: “After my heart broke I wrote the best songs. The first time I went back to the recording studio, I just wanted go back to bed crying. And I did. I cried as I drove to Santa Monica and wondered what the hell I was doing and why. But in the end the album came out This is What the Truth Feels Like».