Post-wedding blues. Sometimes relationships don’t work out — just ask any celebrity couple who has had their marriage annulled.
“He said all the right things and I and the families were a good, good fit. He seemed to have grown up similar to me. It was almost like an arranged marriage, I felt like, except we chose one another,” Meghan King said during a March 2022 appearance on Sirius XM’s Jeff Lewis LiveAbout her brief relationship with Cuffe Owens. “I just really want some help [with my kids]I want what you want[ed] a partnership.”
The Real Housewives of Orange CountyIn October 2021, Owens was married to alumnus Owens. This was just one month after they met via a dating app. They called it quits after two months of marriage in December that year. “I am rattled. This situation is profoundly devastating,” King wrote at the time in a statement shared via her Instagram Story. “This is obviously not what I imagined when I made my vows — and I’m shocked and saddened by the way things turned out. I am moving forward with my children as we privately process our pain and begin to let go of shattered dreams.”
While the reality TV personality hasn’t gone into detail about what went wrong with her marriage, others have been open about what caused them to pull the plug on their relationships.
“I panicked,” Kenny ChesneyDuring an April 2010 TV appearance, he admitted to his brief marriage. Renee Zellweger. “Oh my God, but it’s tough. It’s really tough. And she’s a sweet soul, no doubt about it, but I just wasn’t ready.”
The country star secretly tied the knot with the Oscar winner in May 2005 at Chesney’s cliffside estate in St. John after just four months of dating. By September of that year, however, Zellweger filed for an annulment, citing “fraud.”
However, Bridget Jones’ Diary star released a statement at the time stating that the term was “simply legal language and not a reflection of Kenny’s character,” many began to speculate about Chesney’s sexuality in the wake of their split. “It made me sad that somehow people were using that as a way to be cruel and calling someone gay as a pejorative, which has fateful consequences,” Zellweger told The AdvocateSeptember 2016. “Of course, there’s the bigger-picture problem of why anyone had to make up a story at all.”
She continued: “I’m an old-fashioned gal who doesn’t feel it’s appropriate to hang out your laundry on the lawn. I believe it is a way to devalue yourself and your humanity when you share intimate things with a bunch of strangers who are making fun. … But sometimes it is difficult to just let something be what it is, especially when it’s unnecessary ugliness. Once you’ve said your piece, shouldn’t that be enough?”
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