Ricki Lake Shares Sentimental Tattoo She Got in Her Late Ex-Husband's Memory After His Suicide

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Ricki Lake's first-ever tattoo has a poignant meaning. The 54-year-old TV personality appeared on Wednesday's where she opened up about the ink on her left forearm that honors her late ex-husband, Christian Evans.

Evans died in 2017 from a suicide after years of struggling with bipolar disorder. Evans and Lake were married from 2012 to 2015. «My beloved husband passed away from suicide and bipolar five and a half years ago,» Lake explained on Wednesday. «So this was his wedding vow to me that I found on the stationary after he died and it says, 'I vow to continue loving you.'» Lake, who has since remarried, shared that the message is both a tribute to her late ex and also a message to herself. «It's not only a message from him, but it's a message to continue loving myself,» Lake said. «That relationship and that loss was definitely the darkest period of my life, but through it, so many gifts have come out of it.

I'm now remarried and I'm very much in the happiest place I've ever been in my life.»A post shared by Ricki Lake (@rickilake)Lake opened up about loving someone who suffered from bipolar disorder, saying that at first she wasn't really aware of all that it entailed. «I didn't even know what bipolar was.

He told me when we met that he was diagnosed bipolar, and I was like, 'Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we all have our stuff. I'm a control freak, I know.' I didn't understand what a manic episode, what a psychotic break was until years later and it was the darkest days of my life, but I learned so much,» she said. 'It was the darkest days of my life'@RickiLake opens up about loss and her experiences of mental health pic.twitter.com/9FpLFXQEAqPrior to her marriage to Evans, Lake was also married to Rob Sussman from 1994 to.