6:41 pm - 03/28/2012
When Peter Facinelli told Jennie Garth last fall that he wanted a divorce, she at first refused to give in.
"I was very resistant," she tells PEOPLE in an exclusive new interview. "I didn't want it to happen. It took me some time to come to peace with it."
The couple, who wed in 2001, always had what looked like a storybook marriage. Parents to daughters Luca, 14, Lola, 9 and Fiona, 5, they dubbed themselves the Facinelli Five and reveled in family traditions that included camping in an RV, family movie nights and bingo tournaments.
But over the past two years, as Facinelli's career was taking off (he plays Dr. Carlisle Cullen in the Twilight series and is a regular on Showtime's Nurse Jackie), the couple began spending more time apart.
In 2010, Garth, 39, and their daughters moved to the family's Santa Ynez Valley, Calif., ranch house, while Facinelli, 38, commuted from Vancouver and New York City.
"He would do everything he could to fly back every weekend," says Garth. "[But] it took a real toll on our marriage."
Since then, "I've gone through my darkest parts and I'm coming out of it," says Garth, whose new CMT reality show Jennie Garth: A Little Bit Country, premieres on April 20. "I'm okay. I don't know what the future holds, but then I've never been a planner. And maybe that's a good thing."
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,2
Jennie Garth: I Tried to Save Our Marriage
When Peter Facinelli told Jennie Garth last fall that he wanted a divorce, she at first refused to give in.
"I was very resistant," she tells PEOPLE in an exclusive new interview. "I didn't want it to happen. It took me some time to come to peace with it."
The couple, who wed in 2001, always had what looked like a storybook marriage. Parents to daughters Luca, 14, Lola, 9 and Fiona, 5, they dubbed themselves the Facinelli Five and reveled in family traditions that included camping in an RV, family movie nights and bingo tournaments.
But over the past two years, as Facinelli's career was taking off (he plays Dr. Carlisle Cullen in the Twilight series and is a regular on Showtime's Nurse Jackie), the couple began spending more time apart.
In 2010, Garth, 39, and their daughters moved to the family's Santa Ynez Valley, Calif., ranch house, while Facinelli, 38, commuted from Vancouver and New York City.
"He would do everything he could to fly back every weekend," says Garth. "[But] it took a real toll on our marriage."
Since then, "I've gone through my darkest parts and I'm coming out of it," says Garth, whose new CMT reality show Jennie Garth: A Little Bit Country, premieres on April 20. "I'm okay. I don't know what the future holds, but then I've never been a planner. And maybe that's a good thing."
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,2
all this in addition to the crocs, can u blame him, i don't wanna be a part of this shit either
i don't see why people are saying he cheated. that family pic says it all
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I know there is never a good time to pull it on someone but this asshole...I literally just got off an airplane for a house hunting trip (he's military) and his sister just had a double lung transplant a couple weeks before. So I was already an emotional wreck.
And just to add insult he did this all infront of the apartment building his mom was staying at while the sister was in ICU
/cool story and still a bit bitter bro
HOMEWRECKING KWEEN
Edited at 2012-03-28 11:09 pm (UTC)
my parents are currently going through a divorce. I wish everything was settled already fuck