Angie Harmon & Jason split because they’re ‘good, devout Christian people’
As we discussed yesterday, Angie Harmon and Jason Sehorn are over. They were married for 13 years, although the past four or five years have been particularly rough on them. Basically, they’ve been on the rocks ever since Angie signed on to Rizzoli & Isles, which films in LA, but then refused to move her family to LA from North Carolina. Harmon is a vocal conservative and she was often critical of the lack of family values (or whatever) in LA, which is why she worked in LA for seven months a year while Jason Sehorn raised their three daughters in North Carolina. As you can imagine, this issue has come out in the post-split analysis.
Another Hollywood heartbreak. After 13 years of marriage, Angie Harmon and Jason Sehorn announced they were calling it quits this past weekend. A source close to the actress tells Us Weekly that the split was actually a while in the making.
“A large part of it is when you spend five or six months a year away from your spouse, it gets really tough,” the insider tells Us of the pair, parents to daughters Finley, 11, Avery, 9, and Emery, 5.
The Rizzoli & Isles actress, 42, and Sehorn got accustomed to that distance. “In the beginning, they really missed each other,” the source recalls, “but then they got into a groove where one person took over the main responsibilities of parenting while the other was working.”
Harmon chose to raise their children in North Carolina, even while she had to film her TNT series in Hollywood. “She didn’t want them growing up in Hollywood and being exposed to the fast-paced life,” the insider tells Us, adding that it was the “greatest thing” she could have done for her children.
Ultimately, however, that distance for Harmon and the former NFL star, 43 — who stayed mostly at home with the kids — created tension. “The dynamic of the relationship changed,” the source tells Us. “Things were brewing.”
Still, the insider insists there was no cheating or other betrayal involved in the couple’s decision to separate. “They’re good, devout Christian people,” the source tells Us. “The split wasn’t shocking to their close friends.”
Harmon’s rep confirmed to Us Weekly that the two were “amicably” separating on Monday. “For the sake of their children, they ask for respect & privacy as they navigate this time in their lives,” the rep added.
I’m trying not to get too judgy and wallow in my schadenfreude, but O RLY?!?! I’m guessing that the best thing for those three little girls would have been having two “good, devout Christian” parents who were there for them every day, even if it was in modern-day Gomorrah/Los Angeles. And now those little girls get to be pawns in their good, Christian parents’ divorce and custody battle. Because everyone involved is so good and devout and Christian. To me, this is just throwing the baby out with bathwater – this marriage literally failed because Harmon is so much of a conservative wingnut, she didn’t want to raise her kids in “liberal” LA for five years so she barely saw her kids for like six months at a time.
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