After 21 years of marriage, Leah Remini and Angelo Pagán are doing what’s finest for them — submitting for divorce.
The previous couple posted a joint assertion to social media on Thursday. Although Remini, 54, and Pagán, 56, have been collectively for almost three a long time, the choice to finish their relationship got here “after a variety of thought and care,” they mentioned.
“As exhausting as divorce is, we’re approaching this with a optimistic outlook as a result of we all know it’s what’s finest for us,” the pair wrote. “We’re pleased with how we now have labored by this collectively.”
The prolonged assertion acknowledged that each Remini and Pagán are “unhappy” in regards to the finish of their marriage however will “proceed to maneuver ahead into our new regular—collectively nonetheless in some ways, and aside in some new ones.”
Remini and Pagán, who share a 20-year-old daughter, mentioned they are going to proceed to spend holidays collectively, watch their favorite TV exhibits collectively and can nonetheless collect as a household.
“To place it merely, we each modified, as folks do, and we bought used to taking part in roles that didn’t match us anymore,” the soon-to-be ex-spouses wrote. “Our bond remains to be sturdy—it’s simply advanced into one thing completely different.”
Remini and Pagán celebrated their marriage and known as it a “enormous success.”
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They mentioned they determined to concern the candid assertion about their divorce as a result of they’ve shared a lot of their relationship publicly in varied TV specials, together with Leah Remini: It’s All Relative, which ran for 2 seasons on TLC.
“We’d love for everybody to have extra entry to completely different sorts of relationship tales and never really feel so remoted in navigating the adjustments that hundreds of thousands of {couples} make yearly,” Remini and Pagán continued. “We hope our journey can encourage others to see that relationships—whether or not they change or finish—aren’t failures.”
The ex-couple mentioned they might proceed to share “snippets” of their lives as they navigate the divorce and new paths ahead.
Remini, who’s finest recognized for her longstanding function on King of Queens, shares daughter Sofia Bella with Pagán. He additionally has three different youngsters from a earlier relationship.
The pair met in 1996, then tied the knot in a Las Vegas ceremony in 2003.
When Remini left the Church of Scientology in 2013, after 30 years within the religion, Pagán additionally defected.
Within the years since, Remini has been a vocal critic of Scientology, and has accused the non secular group and its founder David Miscavige of great abuses of energy.
Remini is at present in a authorized battle with the church over allegations that non secular leaders have for years retaliated towards her with a marketing campaign of “continued, aggressive harassment” and “mob-style operations and assaults.” The Church of Scientology has denied all allegations and maintains Remini is “spreading falsehoods and hate speech.”
In 2016, she launched the documentary collection Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, which she produced and co-created. The collection gained three Emmy Awards.
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