Channing Tatum talked about his six -year “painful” divorce fight with Jenna Dewan and shared the “hard” part was separation from his daughter in the middle of the case.
In a recent chat with Blackadmitted to the 45-year-old actor that Dewan’s split was “scary” when the legal battle took a long time over financial details and custody of their 12-year-old daughter Everly.
For the unwarterized, the former pair of the knot in 2009 and announced their separation in 2018.
During the interview Magic Mike Actor was asked if it was difficult to play the role of a convicted spree rope who is alienated from his daughter in his new film Roofman.
In response, Tatum said, “I actually know I’m able to understand it. Jenna and I’m good now, but it was a painful break to have that fall apart, especially being so young.”
The Blink twice Star continued to say, “We tried to keep it together, tried for a year and a half, but we knew it was… [trails off, before stopping himself]. Not to go into all that. It’s in the past. “
“But it’s really hard not to have your daughter half the time. I wish I could just have her all the time,” he confessed.
“We fought for it for a really long time, even though we both knew we had grown apart,” he admitted. “I think we told ourselves a story when we were little, and we just continued to tell ourselves that story, no matter how obvious life told us we were so different.”
“But when you are actually parents, you really understand the differences between you two. Because it screams at you all day. How you parent differently, how you look at the world, how you walk through the world,” he added.
Furthermore, Tatum described that the initial separation “was super scary and scary.”
“All this plan that you literally had, turn into sand and go through your fingers and you’re like ‘oh, shit. What now?'” He noticed.
