Former HGTV star Brandon Hatmaker is selecting to now not publicly focus on his divorce from Jen Hatmaker after his previous affair scandal.
Brandon, 53, defined by way of his Substack on Friday, September 26, why he's stepping again from the drama, writing, “Over the previous few days, I've taken time to affirm what's true and reply to a number of the hypothesis and misinformation surrounding my divorce in 2020. I did so as a result of I believed, and nonetheless do, that it will be each hopeful and useful.”
The previous pastor famous that “dwelling previously doesn't heal anybody,” so he was prepared to maneuver on.
“From this level ahead, I gained't be addressing the main points of these occasions any longer. I've mentioned what wanted to be mentioned, and now it's time to shut that chapter,” he continued. “This area will turn into what it was supposed to be: a spot for sincere conversations about psychological well being, restoration, religion, resilience, and the pursuit of turning into higher people. We've all skilled loss, remorse, and turning factors. My hope is that by sharing classes realized — with out rehashing the previous — we are able to all discover encouragement for the street forward.”
Brandon concluded: “Thanks to those that have learn with empathy and understanding. Your assist means greater than you understand. The way forward for this area is vivid, and I'm wanting ahead to speaking concerning the issues that convey life, hope, and therapeutic. Right here's to what's subsequent.”
Jen, 51, and Brandon's relationship was featured on My Massive Household Renovation, which premiered in 2014. The couple later introduced their break up in 2020 following almost three many years of marriage.
“Brandon and I are getting divorced. Though the main points are ours alone, this was utterly surprising, and I stay surprised as we communicate. I'm shocked, grief-stricken, and broken-hearted,” Jen wrote by way of Instagram on the time. “Maintain us so pricey to your hearts. Now we have felt your prayers these previous couple of weeks. Now we have skilled your mercy. Thanks for being good to us. Know that we're deeply surrounded by love and haven't been alone a single second in two months. Please assist shield us and hold us secure as we attempt to heal and rebuild.”
Jen mentioned her household was “in a second with no handbook and and not using a single clue how one can navigate this privately, a lot much less publicly. … We're actual folks managing this in our actual life in actual time, and we're doing the best possible we all know how one can do.”
The pair's relationship just lately started making headlines once more after Jen launched a memoir titled Awake, which detailed the aftermath of Brandon's affair. Brandon broke his silence on the accusations earlier this month, calling the downfall of his marriage a “fruits of a three-year private spiral.”
Jen Hatmaker and Brandon Hatmaker shocked HGTV viewers with information of their divorce — and their break up has solely gotten messier amid dishonest claims and their separate departures from church. Lots of Us had been launched to the truth stars when their present, My Massive Household Renovation, premiered in 2014. Earlier than the short-lived sequence, Jen and […]
“We're all greater than our lowest second. For these of us dwelling within the penalties of our actions, that may be a tough promote. Whereas I do know this fact in my head, I nonetheless wrestle in the present day to actually imagine it — for myself — in my coronary heart,” he wrote in a prolonged assertion shared by way of Substack. “The bottom second of my life was my very public affair 5 years in the past. I precipitated a lot ache, a lot humiliation, and I introduced a lot confusion into the lives of many individuals that I cherished.”
He concluded: “I had misplaced my anchor, felt no hope, and was the loneliest I've ever been in my life. Whereas that was the bottom second of my life, a really shut second, is having to relive it in the present day. Even tougher, to observe others who I really like, having to do the identical. I've owned my errors, I've made amends, I proceed to do the work, I've labored laborious to revive relationships, and I've began over.”
Each Brandon and Jen have moved on within the wake of their divorce. Brandon is presently married to Tina Hatmaker, whereas Jen sparked a romance with boyfriend Tyler Merritt.
