Jennie reveals the secrets of her ‘painful’ divorce, including how she hid it from her daughters, and how she ‘tried everything’ to save her marriage.
Our hearts broke when we found out Jennie Garth and Peter Facinelli were separating after 11 years of marriage — but our emotions obviously paled in comparison to the private hell Jennie was going through. “I’ve never been this stressed in my life,” she tells People. “I’ve felt stress in the last couple of days like none before. I’m suffering from anxiety now. It feels like an elephant is sitting on your chest.”
Jennie also answers the question on everyone’s mind: Peter is the one who initiated the divorce.
“I tried everything I could to save our marriage,” Jennie tells the mag. “I was very resistent. I didn’t want it to happen. He did what he needed to do. … Of course I wish he had wanted to try harder, try again, try something else.”
She also admits that Peter’s sudden rise to fame — from the Twilight saga and his role on Showtime’s Nurse Jackie – changed him, which contributed to their split.
“Maybe he’s just hitting his stride as an actor and that’s interesting to him,” says Jennie, who also denies that Peter had an affair. “He deserves to do with that success whatever he wants to do with it. … We want different things now.”
But one of the hardest parts about the split, Jennie says, was having to initially hide it from their children.
“I would take the girls to school, then go back and get into bed and not get up again until it was time to pick them up from school,” Jennie reveals. “I had to pretend everything was fine.”
And Jennie says, despite everything, she still hasn’t given up hope.
“I have an amazing family in my girls, and in Peter,” she says. “That’s the fighter in me. … I don’t think I’ll ever give up on him.”
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Posted at 11:51 PM on April 16, 2012
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Posted at 11:18 AM on April 3, 2012
Oops, I meant to say Peter and Jennie have three children. Anyway’s Happy Birthday to Jennie! 4/3 Have a good one Jennie, and I hope your 40′s are awesome!
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Posted at 10:03 PM on April 1, 2012
No one knows for sure what happened behind closed doors with Jennie and Peter, and I’m sure Peter is a good father, but the reason he wanted out is still a little foggy, and I think Jennie did a great job in her interview with People magazine. She tip toed around any sarcasm and chose her words carefully not to offend. I feel really bad for Jennie, and if she was jealous of any on screen affairs with Peter with another woman, then that’s natural. How jealous, and how it affected their marriage, we’ll never really know. Why should she let go of her husband so easily? She still really loves him, and she has a right to fight for him still. I know what she’s going through on a minor scale of my own, and her scale is a lot heavier, because she was married to Peter for 10 years,and two children, and to just let go is not that easy. I can feel her pain, because i know what that pain feels like, but her’s is a lot more intense. She has three daughters by Peter, and they were a family for 11 years, and to have the rug pulled out hurts a lot. I feel for you Jennie, i really do. Maybe Peter will find out someday what he left behind, a beautiful wife, and an intact family. That’s something not many Hollywood marriages can say. I think with all the money these actors, and actresses have the easier it is to walk out. Vows really don’t mean much anymore. Vows are not held sacred enough for the long haul. I feel bad for you Jennie, and I’m on your side. You deserve better, and I hope you find it someday. Just keep your head up high. It’s a long road, but I’t will be worth going through it. Healing takes time, but time does heal.
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Posted at 8:34 PM on April 1, 2012
The sad part is that Jennie who is painting herself as the victim is the root of all this….her self centered jealous personality who cares only about things that she cares about caused this….seems like she is on a mission to save her image and.make this about poor jennie but guess what if people really look into this they will find out the truth and that is the real news and the part that will bring her down… She got one thing right….Peter is an amazing man and father that is why she can’t let go but …….Jennie should stop it while she is ahead….
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Posted at 2:12 AM on August 12, 2012
What you just said contradicts everything I’ve ever heard or seen about Jennie. The two of them just grew apart, that’s all there is to it. I don’t think Peter or Jennie is to blame, although I have a suspicion that Peter was having an affair with one of the Twilight co-stars (perhaps Kristen Stewart? She already admitted to cheating). It sounds like you’ve got an axe to grind with Jennie. The thing I don’t get is, why? Did you hate Kelly on 90210? Jealous that she was married to Peter and not you? If anything, she got tromped on a lot because she tries too hard to be positive, upbeat, and nice in the face of spiteful anti-fans.
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Are you kidding? Always defending the cheating man. Let me guess you are divorced or never married because no one was ever interested in you.
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Posted at 7:16 PM on March 28, 2012
I feel bad for jennie and the kids. It sounds like the fame got to peter and he enjoyed being on his own and traveling away for long periods of time without his family. This is sad that he craves a single life when he has a beautiful family that wants to be with him. What a jerk.
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Posted at 6:34 PM on March 28, 2012
This is really sad, but I must say: It’s nice to see a divorcing celebrity couple who doesn’t trash each other every chance they get………….
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Posted at 6:04 PM on March 28, 2012
When it’s over, it’s over. Let it go and move. Sometimes people just outgrow each other. Life is too short to be in a marriage you’re miserable in.
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i admire her honesty, and i believe that she’ll be happier than ever eventually- after a few years. he hasn’t wanted to be a participant in the same family lifestyle she has wanted for many years. there are plenty of men that would love that lifestyle, and adore the woman who is willing to devote herself to him. so, i think she’s actually a good catch (tho i always hated her in her youth and her rivalry/jealousy with her 90210 castmates) and i expect her to find abundant happiness with the right mate in the end. him? well, i don’t have equally high expectations for him— but, i feel that way about most men, so maybe it’s just my own prejudices and disagreements with the majority of that gender’s priorities. i think most people expect he’ll play around for quite awhile now that he’s a “hot shot” supposedly. btw, am in the only one who finds him incredibly unattractive?
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Posted at 11:14 AM on March 28, 2012
dude, peter’s a douche. lol beautiful girls and a beautiful wife and playing some cheesy sparkley vampire changed him? Please…..
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Posted at 7:30 AM on June 2, 2013
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Posted at 7:21 AM on June 2, 2013
That guy is a Duche!! He needs to get his head right and get back with his Beautiful Wife. Why would someone let fame and money change them? How could he file for divource from Jenny Garth? Maybe he turned gay? Heard that happens a lot to those Hollywood dudes.