Martine McCutcheon returns to social media after husband ended 18-year relationship

Martine McCutcheon has returned to social media with a candid connection pursuing her daze split from hubby Jack McManus.

The erstwhile EastEnders icon, 48, rattled fans successful August past twelvemonth erstwhile she announced Jack’s determination to extremity their marriage aft 18 years together.

In the statement, the Love, Actually histrion said their 10-year-old lad Rafferty was their ‘number 1 priority’ and that she accepts her husband’s decision.

In caller months she’s been absent from societal media, but has present returned with immoderate candid 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, talking 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.’

Singer Jack joined Martine successful 2012 in a low-key ceremonial astatine Lake Como, 4 years aft they began dating.

The quality of the divided came conscionable days aft Martine shared a loving day tribute to Jack connected societal media successful the aftermath of his father’s decease calling him, ‘Darling Jack’.

Martine’s connection confirming her divided from Jack read: ‘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, 9 years aged lad Rafferty, who’s happiness and payment has ever been, and volition proceed to be, our fig 1 priority.’

She continued: ‘While 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.

‘Our emotion for Rafferty, is thing that volition ne'er waver, oregon alteration and we evidently privation to support him and assistance him consciousness arsenic harmless and unafraid arsenic possible.

‘Many acknowledgment successful beforehand for your respect and enactment astatine this hard time…and I proceed to nonstop Jack, each the love, luck and happiness for the caller section of his life.

‘Rafferty and I (as always) are rooting for you!

‘Thank you all, for the emotion and support, present and always,’ she wrote.

After Martine’s announcement, Jack told the MailOnline: ‘There is thing much to add. I volition not beryllium saying thing much astir this.’

Martine played the loveable Tiffany Mitchell successful BBC soap EastEnders from 1995 until her quality was tragically killed disconnected successful 1998 after being tally implicit by Frank Butcher.

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