Kevin Costner shared a video of himself unboxing his Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama Series. While talking to the camera, the 68-year-old actor gushed over how his wife, Christine Baumgartner, went all out with «30 bucks» to decorate their Montecito, California home for an impromptu Golden Globes watch party after floods kept the couple from attending in person a month earlier.Then, less than three months later, Christine dropped a bombshell when she filed for divorce on May 1 after 18 years of marriage.
According to court documents, obtained by ET, Christine cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the dissolution of the marriage, and she listed April 11 as the date of separation.One day after Christine, 49, filed for divorce, a rep for the star intimated he was dragged into a divorce.«It is with great sadness that circumstances beyond his control have transpired which have resulted in Mr.
Costner having to participate in a dissolution of marriage action,» the statement read from Costner's rep to ET. This statement, as it would turn out, provided the first clue that the divorce would be contentious.
And in the weeks and months that followed after Christine filed for divorce, the divorce proceedings have been tumultuous, to say the least.But it wasn't always this way.
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