Former first lady Michelle Obama addressed the recent rumors that she and her husband of 32 years, Barack, could be heading for divorce.
The 61-year-old “Becoming” author discussed the rumors during an episode of Sophia Bush’s “Work in Progress” podcast, which aired this morning.
Rumors about marital struggles for the Obamas swirled after Michelle skipped attending former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral in December. She also didn&#8217;t attend President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, even though her husband was there, as were all the other former first ladies. 
&#8220;The interesting thing is that, when I say &#8216;no,&#8217; for the most part people are like, &#8216;I get it, and I&#8217;m okay,'&#8221; Michelle said, per <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1415869/michelle-obama-breaks-silence-on-barack-obama-divorce-rumors">E! News</a>. &#8220;That&#8217;s the thing that we as women, I think &#8230;we struggle with disappointing people. I mean, so much so that this year people were &#8230; they couldn&#8217;t even fathom that I was making a choice for myself that they had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing.&#8221;
&#8220;This couldn&#8217;t be a grown woman just making a set of decisions for herself, right?&#8221; she continued. &#8220;But that&#8217;s what society does to us. We start actually, finally going, &#8216;What am I doing? Who am I doing this for?&#8217; And if it doesn&#8217;t fit into the sort of stereotype of what people think we should do, then it gets labeled as something negative and horrible.&#8221;
Later, Michelle mentioned that she’s been considering &#8220;making some big girl decisions&#8221; at this point in her life and understanding that she has to “own it fully.”
&#8220;If not now, when? What am I waiting for? How am I going to spend 20 years?&#8221; she said during the interview. &#8220;Now is the time for me to start asking myself these hard questions of, &#8216;Who do I truly want to be every day?'&#8221;
“And that changes,” she added. “So, who do I want to have a lunch with? How long do I want to stay in a place? Do I want to travel? If a girlfriend calls and says, ‘Let’s go here,’ I can say ‘Yes!’ I can. And I’m trying to do that more and more.”
“I get to look at my calendar, which I did this year. It was a real big example of me, myself, looking at something that I was supposed to do, you know, without naming names, and I chose to do what was best for me,” she said. “Not what I had to do, not what other people wanted me to do, and between you and me, that was an important test for me just as a woman, as an independent person. Because, like all women, I operate from guilt.”
Barack didn’t specifically address divorce rumors, but he did mention his marriage while speaking with Hamilton College president Steven Tepper during an event last week, the outlet noted. 
&#8220;I was in a deep deficit with my wife, so I have been trying to dig myself out of that hole by doing occasionally fun things,&#8221; the former president said at the time.

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Maria Shriver opened up about the “devastating, life-altering blow” that was the end of her 25-year marriage to Hollywood star and former Republican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In Shriver’s new book of poetry titled “I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding your Way Home,” the former anchor of the “Today” show admitted the end of her marriage destroyed &#8220;what was left&#8221; of her following years of loss, after losing her mom Eunice Kennedy Shriver (in 2009) and her father Sargent Shriver (in 2011), <a href="https://people.com/maria-shriver-i-am-maria-exclusive-excerpt-11701230">People magazine</a> reported. 
“Then a year and a half later, all hell seemed to break loose,” Shriver wrote, in an excerpt obtained by the outlet. “My First Lady job came to an end. My father died. And then came another devastating, life-altering blow: my twenty-five-year-long marriage blew up. It broke my heart, it broke my spirit, it broke what was left of me.”
“Without my marriage, my parents, a job — the dam of my lifelong capital-D Denial just blew apart,” she added. “Now, much has been written about the end of my marriage, and frankly I don’t feel like I need or want to discuss it here, or anywhere.”
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“I was consumed with grief and wracked with confusion, anger, fear, sadness, and anxiety,” Shriver continued. “I was unsure now of who I was, where I belonged. Honestly, it was brutal, and I was terrified.”
Shriver said she eventually, after trips to therapists, healers, psychics, and even to a cloistered convent, she started writing. 
She said through her poetry she “found a woman who was terrified of not being able to live up to her family’s legacy—scared of not being big enough, a good-enough daughter, sister, wife, mother, journalist. “
“I found a woman who had insisted on measuring herself by some impossible standard that guaranteed she’d come up short and feel bad about herself no matter what,” she added. “I found someone who had spent a lifetime avoiding grief. And I also learned that when that lifetime of dissociated grief and trauma is released, it rushes out like a tsunami.”
“I’ve made lots of mistakes. One of them was tying my self-worth to my achievements. Another big mistake was thinking that someone outside of me could guarantee my safety, my worth, and my peace,” Shriver continued, noting how she used to “believe that if you didn’t have a partner, you must be unworthy and unloveable. I’ve learned that nothing could be further from the truth.”
Shriver and Schwarzenegger tied the knot in 1986 and had four kids together. The movie star later admitted to his wife that he had had an affair with the housekeeper in 1996 resulting in the two having a son together, <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1415226/where-arnold-schwarzenegger-and-maria-shriver-stand-years-after-his-affair">E! News</a> noted. Shriver filed for divorce in July 2011, and their divorce was finally official in December 2021.
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Ben Affleck reflected on his most recent failed marriage after a very public romantic rekindling with Jennifer Lopez, which ended in divorce in January.
During a new cover story interview with <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/inside-ben-afflecks-plan-to-remake-hollywood">GQ</a>, the 52-year-old actor discussed his participation in the 2024 documentary about their marriage, which was called “The Greatest Love Story Never Told.” Fans at the time were surprised Affleck agreed to it, considering his aversion to being in the spotlight.
“Part of it was, ‘Okay, if I’m going to participate in this, I want to try to do it in an honest way and in a way that’s interesting.’ Because I thought it was an interesting examination,” the two-time Academy Award winner told the outlet. 
“There are a lot of people who I think have handled celebrity more adeptly and more adroitly than I have, Jennifer among them,” he added. “My temperament is to be a little bit more reserved and private than hers. As happens in relationships, you don’t always have the same attitude towards these things. And so I thought, ‘Oh, this is interesting because how do you reconcile that?’”
Affleck went on, saying, “I love and support this person. I believe in them. They’re great. I want people to see that. And I think the thing that I said in that documentary or the piece that they used was where I said, You don’t marry a ship captain and then say, ‘Well, I don’t like going out in the water.’ You’ve got to own what you knew going into any relationship. And I think it’s important to say that wasn’t the cause of some major fracture. It’s not like you can watch that documentary and go, &#8216;Oh, now I understand the issues that these two had.’”
At another point during the conversation, Affleck said he &#8220;[doesn&#8217;t mind]&#8221; talking about his &#8220;personal life a little &#8230; as long as my actual feelings and intentions and beliefs are communicated, which I hope I was clear that really [Lopez] is somebody I have a lot of respect for.&#8221;
The actor said he understands the idea of &#8220;wanting to divine or explore the kind of differences in perspective that we have in terms of how a person feels comfortable approaching the line between public and private life.” 
&#8220;There’s a tendency to look at breakups and want to identify root causes or something. But honestly &#8230; the truth is much more quotidian than probably people would believe or would be interesting,&#8221; Affleck explained.
&#8220;There’s no scandal, no soap opera, no intrigue. The truth is, when you talk to somebody, &#8216;Hey, what happened?&#8217; Well, there is no, &#8216;This is what happened,'&#8221; he said of their breakup. &#8220;It’s just a story about people trying to figure out their lives and relationships in ways that we all sort of normally do.&#8221; 
Affleck and Lopez were first engaged in 2002 and broke up in 2004. They started dating again in 2021 and married in two lavish ceremonies, one in Las Vegas and the other in Georgia, the following year. The couple filed for divorce in 2024.

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Singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jessica-simpson">Jessica Simpson</a> announced she’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/divorce">divorcing</a> her husband of ten years, former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">NFL player</a> Eric Johnson.
The 44-year-old singer and Johnson, 45, share three children, daughters Maxwell &#8220;Maxi&#8221; Drew, 12, and Birdie Mae, 5, and son Ace Knute, 11.
&#8220;Eric and I have been living separately navigating a painful situation in our marriage,&#8221; Simpson said in a statement to <a href="https://people.com/jessica-simpson-and-husband-eric-johnson-split-8773988">People</a>. &#8220;Our children come first, and we are focusing on what is best for them. We are grateful for all of the love and support that has been coming our way, and appreciate privacy right now as we work through this as a family.&#8221;
The outlet noted that Johnson was seen without his wedding ring in November. Around the same time, Simpson posted photos of herself in a recording studio, which sparked rumors due to the caption she posted on Instagram.
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&#8220;Interviews in my Nashville music room where I unearthed my singular magic,&#8221; the singer wrote at the time. &#8220;This comeback is personal. It’s an apology to myself for putting up with everything I did not deserve.&#8221;
Simpson was previously married to 98 Degrees singer Nick Lachey from 2002 until 2005. She met Johnson in 2010 and was engaged within six months.
Simpson said in August 2023 that she had thought herself unloveable before Johnson came along. &#8220;I don&#8217;t find it hard to love anybody, but I have always thought that I was hard to love, that I was too much for people, or my schedule was too demanding,&#8221; she <a href="https://people.com/jessica-simpson-hard-to-love-until-she-met-eric-johnson-who-embraces-her-career-exclusive-7963512">told</a> People at the time. 
&#8220;He knows my heart and understands my heart more than anyone I&#8217;ve ever met in my life,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I knew the instant we met that I could see my future in his eyes and with a lot of people, I hope for a future in their eyes, but with Eric, I saw it.&#8221; 
The singer also discussed how the couple tried to keep the romance alive even during the stress of raising children, explaining how she believed he was &#8220;such a good dad and a good man.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jennifer-lopez">Jennifer Lopez</a> is reportedly ready to close the door on the “crazy chapter” of her life with Ben Affleck after she and the actor finalized their divorce — after just two years of marriage.
On Monday, the 55-year-old actress and Affleck finally reached a settlement for their divorce after Lopez filed for a dissolution of their marriage back on Aug. 20, 2024, <a href="https://people.com/jennifer-lopez-wants-to-close-the-door-after-ben-affleck-divorce-source-8770430?utm_campaign=people&amp;utm_content=likeshop&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=instagram">People magazine</a> reported. 
A source close to the superstar singer is now shedding some light on how the “Hustlers” star is doing as she grapples with the end of what she had previously labeled a dream come true, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/love-is-patient-twenty-years-patient-jennifer-lopez-goes-all-in-with-ben-affleck-by-changing-her-last-name">reported</a> at the time.
&#8220;The fairy tale she was promised turned out to be a nightmare in the end,” the insider told the magazine. &#8220;She&#8217;s in a really good place and just wants to close the door on this crazy chapter.”
On the second anniversary of their southern wedding ceremony in Georgia, the “Selena” star put to bed rumors about their relationship troubles when she filed for divorce in Los Angeles County Superior Court without an attorney, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jennifer-lopez-devastated-about-ben-affleck-divorce-gave-her-all-make-work-source">Fox News</a> noted.
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At the time, a source told the outlet that the actress felt she “gave it her all to make this work” with Affleck and was “devastated” that she couldn’t make their marriage work — especially after they called off their first engagement in 2004 and then rekindled their romance in the summer of 2021.
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In the divorce filing, Lopez wrote that the separation occurred on April 26, 2024, <a href="https://people.com/ben-affleck-and-jennifer-lopez-divorce-live-updates-8699009">People magazine</a> noted.
On the same day reports surfaced that Lopez had filed for divorce, the “Gone Girl” star was spotted not wearing his wedding ring.
As to why she chose the anniversary of their wedding ceremony, a source told People magazine. “She was done waiting and the date she did it speaks a ton.” 
The move “gives her control of the process,” added the source. “It’s good that she did it.”
Last June, rumors surfaced that their marriage was over and a source at the time told the outlet that Affleck “started moving out a while ago. The marriage is completely over, and Jennifer is heartbroken. She loves love and wanted this to work so badly.”
Lopez and Affleck officially tied the knot in a legal ceremony in Las Vegas in 2022, before they celebrated their matrimony at a backyard ceremony at an $8 million Georgia mansion with family and friends a month later. It all happened 18 years after the couple first got engaged in 2002, calling it off in 2004.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/brad-pitt">Brad Pitt</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/angelina-jolie">Angelina Jolie</a> have reportedly finalized their <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/divorce">divorce</a> eight years after their first filing.
The couple was formerly married for two years but were together for 12 and shared six children. Their divorce was contentious from the beginning, including issues about money and custody rights.
Jolie, 49, and Pitt, 61, finally signed the divorce papers on Monday.
“More than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr. Pitt. She and the children left all of the properties they had shared with Mr. Pitt, and since that time she has focused on finding peace and healing for their family,&#8221; Jolie&#8217;s lawyer, James Simon, said in a statement provided to the <a href="https://people.com/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-finalize-divorce-settlement-exclusive-8575385">People</a>. &#8220;This is just one part of a long ongoing process that started eight years ago. Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over.&#8221; 
Jolie initially filed for divorce in September 2016 following an alleged incident on a private plane during which she claimed Pitt was abusive to her and their children. The “Ad Astra” actor was not formally charged with any crime.
In 2019, a judge declared Jolie and Pitt were divorced and single but noted that their assets still needed to be split and child custody needed to be agreed upon. During the lengthy legal battle, four of the children have become adults, leaving just two minors in their parents’ care: 16-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
The couple used a private judge, and most of the divorce settlement details have been kept under wraps.
Jolie and Pitt have also been feuding over the ownership of Chateau Miraval, a French castle and wine brand the couple jointly owned. That legal dispute has nothing to do with the divorce and will continue after this settlement.
The actors first met on the set of their film “Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith” while the “Fight Club” star was married to Jennifer Aniston. His divorce from the “Friends” actress went through in 2005. Jolie and Pitt started dating afterward and eventually tied the knot in 2014.
They’ve both kept mostly quiet regarding the downfall of their relationship. Last December, Jolie revealed that the stress of the situation had affected her mentally. “My blood sugar goes up and down. I suddenly had Bell’s palsy six months before my divorce,” she said at the time, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/angelina-jolie-said-divorcing-brad-pitt-gave-her-medical-condition-my-body-reacts-very-strongly-to-stress">reported</a>.
Jolie also said she “doesn’t really have a social life” post-split. She’s been less active in Hollywood but has directed several films and starred as Maria Callas in “Maria,” which is currently generating Oscar buzz.

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New details are emerging about the suspect in the shooting that took place at Abundant Life Christian School.
The Washington Post has <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12/17/madison-wisconsin-school-shooter-natalie-rupnow/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on the “troubled home life” of the shooter:
<blockquote>The 15-year-old girl who killed two people and wounded six others at her small Christian school here Monday had a turbulent home life, according to court records, which show that her parents divorced and remarried multiple times and that she had been enrolled in therapy. …
“There are always signs of a school shooting before it occurre[s],” Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said at a Tuesday news conference, where he asked the public for patience as authorities investigated [the suspect’s] social media activity and state of mind leading up to the rampage. 
The teen is one of just nine female school shooters in the last 25 years, according to a database maintained by The Post. She is also among the younger recent shooters. … [The suspect’s] father is a Christian who often shared pictures of his dogs and his daughter, according to a review of his Facebook profile. …
But one post, from August, has attracted more scrutiny than others. In it, a photo appears to show [the suspect] wielding a gun and taking aim at a firing range. </blockquote>
Obviously, this means the Left is going to name and focus on gun control as the chief issue.
But, it seems to me, there is a bigger issue here: family turmoil.
I know these are the issues we are not supposed to discuss in American life. We are supposed to believe in a libertarian social ethos that says: When parents have a child and they break up for their own well-being and for the preservation of their own happiness, that has no impact on children whatsoever.
This has been a lie since it started in the 1950s and 1960s in the United States. The divorce rate in those days was significantly lower than the current divorce rate. Today, the divorce rate in the United States shows roughly half of all marriages end in divorce.
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Many people will divorce and remarry multiple times. According to The Washington Post&#8217;s review of court records, the suspect&#8217;s parents first married in 2011, about two years after she was born. All social science demonstrates that living together before marriage is often a bad idea because it is an indication that people are not willing to make the commitment to marry before having a child.
Marriage should be the predicate for sleeping together and then having children. I acknowledge these are old-fashioned ideas, but they existed for a reason, just as social institutions did. It was deemed a smart idea to get married before living together because it channeled sexual passions into family building.
A man had to give up his waywardness and make a commitment to a woman before getting one of the things he wanted out of the relationship with the woman. And it meant a woman would have to be pretty discerning about just with whom she chose to have sex, as doing so could result in pregnancy.
The opposite perspective has been quite bad for the West in general. We have declining birth rates, unhappy families, broken families. None of this has been a boon to the West as a general matter, despite all of the West&#8217;s promises that a libertarian sexual ethos would make everyone happier.
Zero evidence exists that a libertarian sexual ethos makes everyone happier. General happiness surveys across the West show a radical decline since the 1970s, particularly among women who are supposed to be the people most liberated by the new sexual ethos.
In this particular case, the mother of the suspect had been previously married and divorced; then, she had another daughter with a different man, to whom she was never married. Court records indicate this girl had other permanent legal guardians. The half sister is now 20-years-old. The suspect&#8217;s parents divorced for the first time in 2014, agreeing to joint legal custody of their shared daughter, but specifying she would live primarily with her mom.
From the Post:
<blockquote>The couple remarried in 2017 and divorced for a second time in 2020, again agreeing to share custody but, the court records show, dividing [the suspect’s] time more evenly between them. During this period, [the suspect] would spend two days with her father, two with her mother, then three more with her father, before reversing the schedule the following week.
Shortly after [the suspect’s] parents split up for the second time, the couple remarried once more. But by April 2021 they were petitioning for a third divorce. A judge granted it a month later but noted that “parties [were] admonished concerning remarriage,” according to court records.
After seeking mediation to determine custody of [the suspect], they agreed in July 2022 that they would share legal custody but that the girl would now live mostly with her father. By this time, [the suspect] had been enrolled in therapy, which was supposed to help guide decisions about which parent she would spend weekends with, the records show. 
The 2022 custody papers said [the suspect’s] parents were on cordial terms. “The parents report a generally positive co-parenting relationship,” the document reads, “and will continue to communicate with one another by text messages and phone conversations.” </blockquote>
Let&#8217;s get real: It doesn&#8217;t matter if mommy and daddy get along when they&#8217;re not living together. What matters is the impact on the child.
This is what happens when the actual value of marriage is substituted for a transitory perception of passion and romance. Marriage is not built predominantly on feelings. It is predominantly built on duty. 
I know this is a strange idea to many people who are living in the post-modern West. But the reality of the world is that marriage was built on commitment.
Marriage itself is an institution that requires fealty to the institution, not merely to the other person who is part of the institution. This bizarre notion that marriage was supposed to be about a sort-of formalization of romantic love as opposed to a shared value system that was capable of building the next generation is a wrong idea.
And it has been a mistake for the West to embrace that.
Romance is an enormous part of marriage. But it is not the chiefly important part of marriage when children become secondary as opposed to the primary purpose. Not only is marriage defeated, but the children are also defeated.
The idea of romance being the primary focus of marriage took hold during the Romantic Period in the 19th century. But it turned out that human biology thwarted the plans of romantic love to overcome the institution of marriage. The institution, like all institutions built by civilization, was built by human beings in order to channel human passions. Then, they were made sacred by human beings in order to civilize their passions.
We build entire civilizations in order to channel those passions in positive directions. One of the most fervent passions people have is the passion for sexual relationships. It&#8217;s very powerful.
It can also be incredibly destructive. This is why marriage is such an important institution. The institution of marriage channels that passion toward the production and rearing of children, as opposed to simply leaving little boys and girls all over the landscape without proper mothers and fathers in functioning households.
Treating women poorly is what happens in a free-love system, which is how women currently feel. They feel men treat them like trash.
And many of the men are looking at the system saying it’s a consensual system. What&#8217;s the problem?
The answer is that the consent women are typically looking for is not merely sexual consent. It is consent to a long-term relationship that is meaningful, spiritual, and purposeful.
When a society lacks these things, the result is tremendous human suffering, true human suffering.
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This belief in a concept of “free divorce, easy living, get back together, break up, get back together, break up, find new partners, and the kids will just be fine, because, you know, kids can take it,” is a blight.
The kids can take it? No, you can take it. You&#8217;re the adult.
Is what happened in the school shooting the parents’ fault? Given the fact they were living the way they lived, it’s a reasonable question.
If you treat your children like a bizarre form of chattel, shuttling them between parent and parent because you want to live your best life, guess what? Things go wrong.
Once you have kids, you are no longer first priority. You&#8217;re not even second priority. As a father, you’re third priority. First priority: your kids. Second priority: your wife. And then comes you.
A disproportionate number of people who commit these types of acts are children of broken homes. And it turns out a disproportionate number of people who commit violent crimes are also products of broken homes.
Longstanding social science data indicates delinquency radically increases when no father is present in the home. Crime radically increases; teenage pregnancy radically increases.
This is what happens when a society decides it is very important to disengage from the institutions and civilization that channeled passions and, instead, just humor those passions and let everything else be left by the wayside.
I think the American people are ready for a serious conversation about what the good life looks like. There&#8217;s a lot of talk in politics these days about the common good and what we all hold together. What is it? What is sacred? What ought to be put beyond political debate?
It used to be beyond political debate that family comes first.
I think the American people are tired of all this, tired of the deep libertarian sexual ethos. I think we are in the middle of what could be a cultural renaissance.
That kinship principle — to be with your family in your home, to raise your children so that their children will have healthy children, to build familial wealth over the course of generations, to sit on the porch when you&#8217;re 80 years old with your grandkids playing in the yard, to know you lived a good, dutiful, purposeful life and will continue contributing to future generations — that is what Americans yearn for.
Because without it, the country falls apart.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/prince-harry">Prince Harry</a> has addressed rumors that he and his wife, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/meghan-markle">Meghan Markle</a>, could be headed toward divorce, as both have been spotted attending events separately lately. 
The 40-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/royal-family">royal heir</a> discussed the headlines during a Wednesday appearance at The New York Times&#8217; DealBook Summit.
&#8220;There&#8217;s articles left and right about, you know, &#8216;Why are you doing independent events? Why aren&#8217;t you doing them together?'&#8221; DealBook founder Andrew Ross Sorkin said, per <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1410773/prince-harry-breaks-silence-on-meghan-markle-divorce-rumors">E! News</a>. &#8220;Is that a good thing for you, in a way, that there&#8217;s so much interest in you?&#8221;
The Duke of Sussex said the media’s obsession with the couple is &#8220;definitely not a good thing.&#8221; 
&#8220;Apparently we&#8217;ve bought or moved house 10, 12 times. We&#8217;ve apparently divorced maybe 10, 12 times as well. So, it&#8217;s just like, what?&#8221; Prince Harry responded. 
&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to keep up with, but that&#8217;s why you just sort of ignore it,&#8221; he went on. &#8220;The people I feel most sorry about are the trolls. Their hopes are just built and built, and it&#8217;s like, ‘Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,’ and then it doesn&#8217;t happen. So I feel sorry for them. Genuinely, I do.”
The couple has been married since 2018 and has two children, Archie Harrison, 5, and Lilibet Diana, 3. In 2020, they shocked the world by quitting their roles as working royals and moving to California. They blamed this change on the attention of the press and continued fears for their safety.
“It&#8217;s still dangerous,” Harry said in an interview with ITV in July. “All it takes is one lone actor, one person who reads this stuff to act on what they have read.”
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“Whether it&#8217;s a knife or acid, whatever it is…these are things that are of genuine concern for me. It&#8217;s one of the reasons why I won’t bring my wife back to this country,” he went on.
These remarks came after RAVEC (a committee made up of the Home Office, Metropolitan Police, and the Royal Household) announced that it had removed the royal family member’s automatic right to taxpayer-funded U.K. police protection, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prince-harry-says-he-wont-take-meghan-markle-back-to-u-k">reported</a>. Earlier this year, the London High Court ruled in favor of the government’s decision, which Harry said he planned to appeal.
“The U.K. is my home,” the royal previously said. “The U.K. is central to the heritage of my children and a place I want them to feel at home as much as where they live at the moment in the United States.”
“That cannot happen if there is no possibility to keep them safe when they are on U.K. soil,” Prince Harry continued. “I can’t put my wife in danger like that, and given my experiences in life, I’m reluctant to unnecessarily put myself in harm’s way too.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Halle Berry</a> is seeking sole custody of her 10-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/children">son</a>, Maceo.
The Academy Award-winning actress filed court documents alleging that the child’s father, French <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">actor</a> Olivier Martinez, is a hindrance to the child’s “best interests.”
Berry is requesting custody “or in the alternative, tie-breaking authority to make all decisions” about her son’s education, health and therapy needs, per legal documents obtained by <a href="https://people.com/halle-berry-seeks-sole-legal-custody-of-son-maceo-from-olivier-martinez-8697075">People</a>. The 58-year-old star claims she &#8220;is not perfect&#8221; but is &#8220;always seeking to prioritize the best interests&#8221; of her son.
The filing mentioned the child’s &#8220;educational challenges&#8221; and other concerns the actress had as she &#8220;fought for tutoring, an educational assessment and finding an environment that was suitable to Maceo’s needs.&#8221;
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&#8220;[Martinez&#8217;s] actions and lack of cooperation with respect to Maceo’s psychological and educational needs have been detrimental to Maceo’s health and welfare,&#8221; the filing states. &#8220;Respondent’s refusal to allow early interventions have caused Maceo to fall further behind in school, caused Maceo’s acting out behaviors to worsen, and caused further damage to Maceo’s and Petitioner’s relationship,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/halle-berry-seeking-sole-custody-son-ex-olivier-martinez-turbulent-detrimental-behavior">reported</a>. 
The document includes Berry’s claims that Martinez has been &#8220;oppositional, unmoving and withheld his consent for years.&#8221;
&#8220;Because of [Martinez]’s opposition to any interventions whatsoever for years and because of [Martinez]’s prioritizing soccer activities over Maceo’s educational and psychological well-being, Maceo’s educational and behavioral challenges worsened, and he continued to fall further behind in school,&#8221; the document states.
Berry claimed Maceo would &#8220;act out&#8221; toward her after &#8220;longer periods of custody&#8221; with his father. She also stated that Martinez said Maceo was &#8220;old enough to make his own decisions.&#8221;
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Berry and Martinez finalized their divorce last year following a lengthy court battle. The actress was ordered to pay her ex-husband close to $8,000 monthly for child support in addition to 4.3% on any income she makes over $2 million, per <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/halle-berry-seeking-sole-custody-son-ex-olivier-martinez-turbulent-detrimental-behavior">Fox News</a>. Berry also pays for Maceo’s private school tuition, extracurriculars, and health care.
The actress previously went through a messy custody battle with her previous ex-husband, Gabriel Aubry, over their daughter. Their fight turned physical in 2012 when Aubry was <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/halle-barrys-ex-arrested-after-fight-with-her-fiance/">arrested</a> following an altercation stemming from him wanting to keep Berry from taking their daughter to France to live with Martinez, who she was dating at the time.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/britney-spears">Britney Spears</a> made it clear she’s done with men after her recent divorce from Sam Asghari and her more recent romance with the handyman felon, Paul Soliz. 
In a post on her Instagram Stories, the 42-year-old pop singer wondered aloud about some of the things Soliz had done while driving in a car with her while they were being followed by the paparazzi, <a href="https://pagesix.com/2024/07/08/entertainment/britney-spears-calls-out-boyfriend-paul-richard-soliz-reveals-shes-single/">Page Six</a> reported.
“Why was he going 90 in a neighborhood with one [paparazzi] following only to roll the window down when the [paparazzi] pulls to the side of me?” Spears asked.
“Then he calls his mom and says he’s being harassed,” she added. “Why did he roll the window down with me crying in the seat?”
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The “Womanizer” hitmaker then followed up her post with a more cryptic one, sharing a quote that read, “Her attitude is savage, but her heart is gold.”
She captioned it, “Single as f***. I will never be with another man as long as I live!” It was then deleted, the outlet noted.
In May, <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2024/05/20/britney-spears-need-new-conservatorship-report-drugs-surveillance-danger/">TMZ</a> reported that loved ones are reportedly worried that another conservatorship will be the only way to keep the “violent” star safe from “hurting herself or others” amid reports of her alleged erratic behavior.
Multiple sources told the outlet that the singer is reportedly often not taking her mental health medications and that they are concerned Spears’ “mental health is in a tailspin.” 
Those with knowledge alleged that since the end of the conservatorship, Spears is reportedly drinking and using illegal drugs, after she previously struggled with substance abuse, the outlet noted.
The report alleged that sources say Spear’s reported boyfriend, Soliz, is running “her household and her life,” with sources also claiming the pop star can’t be reasoned with because her “mood swings often turn into rages that end in physical violence.”
Sources told the outlet that Spears is in “grave danger,” with several people close to the singer reportedly speaking up about the alleged incidents in hopes that a California court will consider a new conservatorship, the <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/05/20/britney-spears-faces-grave-danger-as-paranoia-and-drug-use-worsen/">New York Daily News</a> noted.
In September 2023, reports surfaced that Spears and Soliz were dating amid her divorce to Asghari after 14 months of marriage. 
In November 2021, a judge terminated Britney’s conservatorship, which had been in place for nearly 14 years. It was the singer’s dad, Jamie Spears, who was in charge of that.
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An anonymous source recently told <a href="https://people.com/brad-pitt-upset-daughter-shiloh-dropped-his-last-name-source-exclusive-8657479" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People</a> that Brad Pitt is “upset” that his daughter, Shiloh, filed paperwork on her 18th birthday to drop the “Pitt” from her last name.
“He’s aware and upset that Shiloh dropped his last name. He’s never felt more joy than when she was born. He always wanted a daughter,&#8221; the source said.
&#8220;The reminders that he’s lost his children, is of course not easy for Brad. He loves his children and misses them. It’s very sad,&#8221; the insider added.
The last name debacle <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brad-pitt-and-angelina-jolies-daughter-files-to-drop-pitt-from-surname" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made headlines</a> last week as Shiloh used her first official day of adulthood to make a major change to her surname. For anyone who hasn’t been paying attention, this move from the eldest biological child of Pitt and ex-wife Angelina Jolie was unprecedented. But a small amount of research shows that the move lines up with the drama between Pitt and his kids that’s been brewing for years.
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Jolie, 48, and Pitt, 60, met on the set of “Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith” in 2003 and it’s widely reported that their chemistry was undeniable. This was complicated by the fact that Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston at the time. He and Jolie officially became a couple following his divorce in 2005.
Pitt and Jolie became Hollywood’s “it couple” over the next decade. They formally wed in 2014. Together, they share six kids: Maddox, 22, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, Pax, 20, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 15.
Jolie had adopted Maddox from Cambodia and Zahara from Ethiopia prior to her relationship with Pitt. He legally adopted them after they got together.
The couple had their first biological child, Shiloh, in 2006. Next they adopted Pax from Vietnam. Finally, Jolie gave birth to twins, Knox and Vivienne, in 2008.
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And Shiloh isn’t the only one changing her name. Vivienne, who is listed as a producer assistant for the Broadway musical “The Outsiders,” uses the last name “Jolie” in the Playbill. A <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzsJpzar3s1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> of Zahara introducing herself while joining the Mu Pi chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at her university shows the teen introducing herself as “Zahara Marley Jolie.”
What gives? Why are so many of Pitt’s children choosing to separate themselves from the Academy Award winning actor?
Most entertainment insiders believe it can be traced back to an incident that happened when the family flew from Paris to Los Angeles in 2016. The alleged incident became public in 2022 when Jolie filed a complaint claiming that her ex grabbed her by the head and shook her, then choked one of the children who tried to step in and stop him.
The abuse allegations were made shortly after the flight, per <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/10/05/1126925040/brad-pitt-choked-and-his-children-angelina-jolie-says-in-a-court-filing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a>, but most details were kept hidden until 2022. The New York Times was first to report the verbiage found in the court document.
&#8220;Pitt&#8217;s aggressive behavior started even before the family got to the airport, with Pitt having a confrontation with one of the children. After the flight took off, Jolie approached Pitt and asked him what was wrong,&#8221; the filing says. &#8220;Pitt accused her of being too deferential to the children and verbally attacked her.&#8221;
At another point, the document stated, “He pulled [Jolie] into the bathroom and began yelling at her. Pitt grabbed Jolie by the head and shook her, and then grabbed her shoulders and shook her again before pushing her into the bathroom wall.&#8221;
One of the couple’s children who was only identified as being between the ages of 8 and 15-years-old at the time verbally defended Jolie. This allegedly caused the actor to act out in anger.
&#8220;Pitt lunged at his own child and Jolie grabbed him from behind to stop him. To get Jolie off his back, Pitt threw himself backwards into the airplane&#8217;s seats injuring Jolie&#8217;s back and elbow,&#8221; the filing continued. &#8220;The children rushed in and all bravely tried to protect each other. Before it was over, Pitt choked one of the children and struck another in the face.&#8221;
The document also accused Pitt of pouring beer on Jolie and both beer and red wine on the children. Jolie said Pitt was &#8220;becoming a monster&#8221; as he &#8220;ranted&#8221; and &#8220;mimicked the behavior of a monster and screamed at them,” per People. She said she and the children were &#8220;shell-shocked&#8221; and &#8220;frozen, scared and didn&#8217;t know what to do.&#8221;
The actress claimed that Pitt’s behavior made her feel &#8220;like a hostage.&#8221; NPR noted that criminal charges “would not be pursued due to several factors.”
The “Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood” actor denied the abuse claims via his rep. An initial statement in 2022 classified the allegations as “completely untrue.”
The rep later amended the statement, admitting Pitt displayed inappropriate behavior but said Jolie was blowing it out of proportion. “(Jolie’s) story continues to evolve each time she tells it. Brad has accepted responsibility for what he did but will not for things he didn’t do,” the new statement <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/entertainment/angelina-jolie-abuse-brad-pitt-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
“He has been on the receiving end of every type of personal attack and misrepresentation,” Pitt’s attorney Anne Kiley said at the time. “Thankfully, the various public authorities she has tried to use against him over the past six years have made their own independent decisions. Brad will continue to respond in court as he has consistently done.”
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It’s not just Pitt’s daughters seemingly shunning their dad. The couple’s oldest son Pax also reportedly shared his opinion, allegedly called his adoptive father a “world class a**hole” and “f***ing awful human being” in a Father’s Day post on his private Instagram account in 2020, per <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12744641/Angelina-Jolie-Brad-Pitt-adopted-son-Pax-dad-despicable.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a>.
“You time and time and again prove yourself to be a terrible and despicable person,” the social media account holder wrote over a picture of Pitt accepting the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2020 for his role in “Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood.”
“You have no consideration or empathy toward your four youngest children who tremble in fear when in your presence,” the post said. “You have made the lives of those closest to me a constant hell. You may tell yourself and the world whatever you want, but the truth will come to light someday.”
The drama continues as Pitt and Jolie battle for custody over their two remaining minor children and amid a messy controversy over the ownership of their French vineyard, Chateau Miraval. The former couple was declared legally single back in 2019, but their divorce is still ongoing until those two issues are settled.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breakups-are-never-easy-gisele-bundchen-reflects-on-tom-brady-divorce">Gisele Bündchen</a> finally responded to the rumors that she cheated on her ex-husband Tom Brady amid questions about the timeline of her romance with her jiu-jitsu trainer Joaquim Valente.
Speaking to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/style/gisele-bundchen-cookbook-diet-relationships.html">The New York Times</a>, the 43-year-old supermodel shut down speculation that she was unfaithful to the retired Super Bowl-winning QB before the couple announced their split in October 2022.
&#8220;That is a lie,&#8221; Bündchen told the outlet, &#8220;I really don&#8217;t want to make my life a tabloid. I don&#8217;t want to open myself up to all of that.&#8221;
&#8220;This is something that happens to a lot of women who get blamed when they have the courage to leave an unhealthy relationship and are labeled as being unfaithful,&#8221; she added. &#8220;They have to deal with their communities. They have to deal with their family. Of course for me, it just happens to be a little bit amplified.&#8221;
&#8220;No one really knows what happens between two people, only the two people in the relationship,&#8221; Bündchen continued.
In October 2022, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-brady-confirms-divorce-from-wife-gisele-bundchen-after-13-years-of-marriage">Brady</a> confirmed he and Bündchen were divorced after 13 years of marriage. That same day a court declared the couple&#8217;s marriage &#8220;irretrievably broken&#8221; and dissolved, <a href="https://people.com/gisele-buendchen-denies-cheating-on-tom-brady-speaks-about-new-romance-8619548">People magazine</a> noted.
Bündchen and Valente first began working together in December 2021, <a href="https://pagesix.com/2024/03/23/celebrity-news/gisele-bundchen-denies-cheating-on-tom-brady-following-speculation-about-joaquim-valente-romance/">Page Six</a> noted. Starting in 2022, the two were photographed out and about in Miami and Costa Rica, the outlet added. However, in March 2023, Bündchen shut down rumors they were ever anything more than friends, <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/03/gisele-bundchen-cover-story">Vanity Fair</a> noted.
&#8220;He&#8217;s our teacher and, most importantly, he&#8217;s a person that I admire and that I trust,&#8221; the supermodel said. &#8220;It&#8217;s so good to have that kind of energy, to have my kids around that type of energy.&#8221;
In June 2023, the two reportedly started dating, Page Six noted. And in February, a source told Page Six the couple are &#8220;deeply in love.&#8221;
Bündchen spoke to The Times and confirmed she and Valente are dating.
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&#8220;It is the first time I am seeing someone that was a friend of mine first,&#8221; the model said. &#8220;It&#8217;s very different. It is very honest, and it&#8217;s very transparent.&#8221;
In February, a source close to Brady told the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13113881/Tom-Brady-Gisele-Bundchen-boyfriend-Joaquim.html">Daily Mail</a>, &#8220;If she [Bündchen] wants to have people think she has been dating Joaquim only since June, so be it, but they have been together longer and they aren&#8217;t taking it slow. Tom has accepted it.&#8221;
Brady himself a year earlier made a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-brady-posts-cryptic-quote-about-betrayal-after-gisele-bundchen-breaks-silence-on-their-divorce" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cryptic post</a> on Instagram about the &#8220;betrayal of false friends,&#8221; which included three heart emojis, after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/giselle-bundchen">Bündchen</a> broke her silence on what led to their divorce.
In the March 2023 <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/03/gisele-bundchen-cover-story">Vanity Fair</a> article, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gisele-bundchen-breaks-silence-about-tom-brady-divorce-weighs-in-on-rumors">supermodel</a> responded to rumors that Brady&#8217;s refusal, at the time, to walk away from football had something to do with their split. Bündchen said that she and Brady ended their 13 years of marriage because &#8220;sometimes you grow together; sometimes you grow apart.&#8221;
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