Christina Perri has filed for divorce from her husband, Paul Costabile, after seven years of marriage.
Perri, 39, submitted her submitting in Los Angeles County Superior Court docket on Monday, November 3, in keeping with courtroom paperwork obtained by USA Today.
The “A Thousand Years' singer cited irreconcilable variations as the explanation for the break up, and requested that she and Costabile obtain joint bodily and authorized custody of their daughters, Carmella, 7, and Pixie, 3. Perri additionally requested the decide to award spousal assist as said in her prenup with Costabile.
Perri and Costabile tied the knot in December 2017 after 4 years of marriage, when she was pregnant with Carmella.
Shortly after they acquired married, Costabile gushed about Perri on social media.
“4 years in the past in the present day I met my dream woman on this room,” Costabile wrote through X on the time. “4 years later in the present day I married my dream woman and greatest pal. … I thank God for the present of her, our relationship, our bambino on the way in which, our household's love and assist and this unforgettable 12 months.”
The couple skilled ups and downs as they grew to become dad and mom. They welcomed Carmella in January 2018, and two years later, Perri suffered a third-trimester miscarriage whereas anticipating their second little one, one other woman.
“Final evening we misplaced our child woman,” Perri revealed through Instagram in November 2020, sharing a photograph of her and Costabile holding the late toddler's hand. “She was born silent after preventing so laborious to make it to our world. She is at peace now and can reside ceaselessly in our hearts.”
The next summer time, the “Jar of Hearts” musician opened up about her grieving course of.
“After we misplaced our daughter final November I believed I'd by no means be OK once more. I believed I'd by no means snicker or play once more or dance once more or love once more… and for many months I didn't,” Perri wrote through Instagram in July 2021.
“However then I began making an attempt to heal and discover ways to reside with the ache and grief proper alongside of the love & pleasure. The right way to discover even the tiniest goal in our tragedy and to search out one thing to be taught and develop from and develop in the direction of.”
Perri gave beginning to Pixie in October 2022, asserting on social media that with “an entire lot of religion, belief and pixie mud she has arrived safely. please welcome our magical double rainbow child woman.”
Whereas parenting two younger ladies, Perri has maintained a profitable profession in pop music. Her 2011 single “A Thousand Years” appeared on the Twilight Saga soundtrack and stays a preferred marriage ceremony track. Perri has stated that she sings it to her children.
