Martine McCutcheon returns to social media after split from husband Jack and reveals ‘next chapter’

MARTINE McCutcheon contiguous returned to societal media aft the breakdown of her matrimony and said she is looking guardant to the "next chapter".

The Love Actually star, 48, and instrumentalist Jack McManus, 40, shocked fans past summertime erstwhile they revealed they had split aft much than 18 years together, being joined for 12. 

Martine returned to Instagram with a saccharine video, and explained that she had taken a societal media interruption truthful she could "find her feet" aft the breakdown of her marriage.

Sharing the clip connected her Stories, the Perfect Moment vocalist said: "Hello everybody it has been a agelong clip since I person been connected present but I wanted to accidental that your messages of emotion and enactment and each sorts past twelvemonth were truthful so astonishing for maine past year.

"So convey you truthful much.

"I person not been connected present I person fundamentally been uncovering my feet, healing, focusing connected the adjacent section which I americium precise excited."

Martine past went connected to explicate that she was arrogant that her and Jack person enactment their kid Rafferty earlier everything else.

The actress past station connected societal media was an inspirational punctuation astatine the extremity of past year, wherever she talked astir "respect".

The connection read: "The lone radical who merit to beryllium successful your beingness adjacent year, are the ones who dainty you with love, kindness and respect.

"If the vibes are weird, determination on."

The actress' break-up shocked fans arsenic it came conscionable days aft Martine posted a loved-up day tribute to Jack.

She has since revealed helium was the 1 to extremity their marriage.

Ex-EastEnders prima Martine told BBC Radio’s Woman’s Hour that Jack near aft their matrimony came nether strain, made worse when she became reclusive. 

She was besides diagnosed with ADD – but admits she found herself denying the diagnosis to statesman with. 

Martine - who besides has ME (chronic fatigue syndrome) - was struggling to get retired of furniture aft her sibling LJ - Laurence John - passed away with "no aesculapian explanation" astatine the property of 31 successful 2022.

She explained: “I didn’t privation to reply my phone. I didn’t privation to reply the beforehand door, spell extracurricular and I would panic retired of obscurity and person to propulsion implicit erstwhile I was driving because I felt this immense fearfulness and couldn’t breathe.”

“I genuinely felt I was losing my mind,” she added. "I didn’t cognize if I truly was oregon if it was thing that was perimenopausal.

“It would conscionable travel connected retired of obscurity and erstwhile I spoke to my specializer astir it she said, ‘You cognize this is sadly the lawsuit for galore women’.”

END OF THE ROAD

Martine and Jack met successful 2006, joined successful 2012 and unneurotic person a nine-year-old son, Rafferty.

When they announced their split, Martine confirmed Rafferty would stay the apical precedence for them. 

She wrote successful her Instagram Stories: "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 twelvemonth aged lad Rafferty, whose happiness and welfare, has ever been, and volition proceed to be, our fig 1 priority.

"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…

"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."

MOVING ON

In a bid for a caller start, it was revealed however the brace slashed the terms of their £1.5million home successful bid to velocity up the sale. 

The Surrey pad is present going for £1.25million - putting the brace astatine a half-million lb nonaccomplishment from erstwhile they archetypal bought it successful 2022. 

The erstwhile mates had initially enactment the location up for merchantability successful May, 3 months earlier they announced they had gone their abstracted ways.