Martine McCutcheon breaks silence with defiant message after shock split from husband

Former EastEnders prima Martine McCutcheon has opened up successful a candid video aft she announced her divided from vocalist Jack McManus past twelvemonth pursuing 18 years of marriage

Actress Martine McCutcheon has made a candid instrumentality to societal media pursuing her astonishing divided from hubby Jack McManus.

The Love Actually actress, 48, and instrumentalist Jack, 40, called clip connected their romance implicit the summer aft 18 years together, with Martine seemingly revealing she was against a separation and Jack was the 1 to propulsion the plug connected their marriage.

In the announcement, the former Eastenders histrion stated that their 10 twelvemonth aged lad Rafferty was their 'number 1 priority' and that she accepts her husband's decision. She's been absent from societal media successful caller months, but has present returned with immoderate heartfelt words for her followers.

"Hello everybody. It has been a agelong clip since I’ve been connected present but I wanted to accidental that your messages of emotion and enactment past twelvemonth were conscionable truthful astonishing for maine I can’t archer you. So convey you truthful much," she began, speaking straight to the camera. Basically I’ve conscionable been uncovering my feet, healing, focusing connected the adjacent section which I’m precise excited about."

"Also I took a interruption from present arsenic well, due to the fact that you cognize what it’s like. I’m truly arrogant of maine and Jack due to the fact that we person managed to enactment Rafferty archetypal nary substance what. Also we privation to unrecorded our lives being friends aft being unneurotic for 18 years. So immoderate posts I enactment up oregon thing I share, it’s not a flimsy connected him. I wouldn’t bash that. It’s not my style. If I privation to accidental thing I’ll accidental it. I was wary of that arsenic well. But I’m each good, and I’m back."

In November, Martine opened up astir her unexpected divided from hubby Jack successful August, suggesting that the divorcement has led to a nonaccomplishment of friends. Since the astonishing quality broke, Martine has experienced a dip successful her societal life, feeling alternatively "blah" astir it all. But recently, 1 of her dearest friends encouraged her to spell out, resulting successful a lively nighttime wherever they were the past to permission a section bar.

Despite this boost, Martine disclosed that she's mislaid interaction with immoderate friends who took sides post-divorce in a brutal stroke for the star. In a station successful November, the prima said: "Mutual 'friends' person gone silent, oregon person intelligibly picked a side, erstwhile they were never, adjacent asked to!"

Martine near her fans successful daze erstwhile she announced her plans to divorcement successful August, posting online: "After overmuch thought and consideration, Jack has decided it's champion for america to abstracted aft 18 years unneurotic and I judge his decision. We are some truthful precise blessed and grateful for our beautiful, nine-year-old lad Rafferty, who's happiness and payment has ever been, and volition proceed to be, our fig 1 priority."

She further added: "We some of course, inactive cherish and look guardant to being parents unneurotic to our fantastic lad for the remainder of our lives. Whilst this determination has evolved implicit a play of time, we are inactive uncovering our caller mode guardant arsenic a household and kindly inquire for immoderate privateness astatine this time... Especially for our small boy."

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