Channing Tatum Says He and Jenna Dewan ‘Fought’ for Marriage for a ‘Long Time’ Before Split: ‘We Were So Different’
17.01.2023 - 20:57
/ usmagazine.com
Getting candid. Channing Tatum shared new details about what led to his split from Jenna Dewan, explaining how the former spouses fought for their marriage.
During his interview with Vanity Fair, which was published on Tuesday, January 17, Tatum, 42, recalled the moment he realized there were issues in their relationship.
“I was working a lot. I had gotten to work with some of my favorite directors. I had checked boxes that I would never have hoped to dream about. But something just wasn’t quite filling me up,” the actor, who shares 9-year-old daughter Everly with Dewan, 42, explained to the outlet. “I was sort of kind of just trying not to be bad in movies, instead of being good. And I was kind of going, ‘What’s …’ And it really had nothing to do with my work. It was really about my life.”
Tatum noted that he and Dewan made attempts to work things out before pulling the plug, adding, “We fought for it for a really long time, even though we both sort of knew that we had sort of grown apart. I think we told ourselves a story when we were young, and we just kept telling ourselves that story, no matter how blatantly life was telling us that we were so different.”
The Lost City star concluded: “But when you’re actually parents you really understand differences between the two of you. Because it is screaming at you all day long. How you parent differently, how you look at the world, how you go through the world.”
According to the Alabama native, it was initially “super scary and terrifying” when he transitioned back to single life. “This whole plan that you had literally just turns into sand and goes through your fingers and you’re just like, ‘Oh, s—t. What now?’” he admitted.
Tatum, however, credited the breakup for being