Christine McGuinness has finally broken her silence on her divorce from Paddy McGuinness.
For those unaware, the 38-year-old English model, television personality, and former beauty queen and the 52-year-old English comedian, actor, and television presenter tied the knot on June 4, 2011, in Merseyside.
The couple welcomed their three children: twins Leo and Penelope and their youngest daughter, Felicity. And all three children of the former couple are autistic. However, they announced their separation after 11 years of marriage in July 2022.
While conversing with Daily Mail about her separation from Paddy, Christine said, “Divorce is scary and it was scary for me – obviously, I’ve never done a divorce before! It’s an awful time.”
“But as much as it was challenging and difficult, a lot of the thoughts and feelings were really from listening to other people’s stories.”
“Obviously, you hear about divorce, you instantly think negativity, heartbreak and a broken family or whatever, you don’t hear about other families that [continue to] share their home,” The Real Housewives of Cheshire star stated.
Referring to her differently abled children, she articulated, “A lot of families that have got children with special educational needs choose to do it this way. Maybe they don’t talk about it so much, but they’re the ones who really get it and understand it.”
“I actually do think it is a blessing, the way we work co-parenting. It was always a decision from the beginning that no matter what, between me and Patrick, our priority is always the children, and that’s how we’ve kept it, fortunately…”
“We’re lucky that we genuinely get on so well. We’re not in a rush to sell the house. We don’t want to be putting the kids in mummy’s house and then in daddy’s house – and our work’s not in a routine and our children thrive on routine,” Christine McGuinness explained.
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