As we discussed last week, Angie Harmon and Jason Sehorn split after 13 years of marriage. The last four four years of their marriage were the most difficult, with Angie splitting her time between North Carolina (their home, where they raise their three daughters) and LA, where she films Rizzoli & Isles. Angie always maintained that she didn’t ever want to raise the kids in LA, because blah blah good Christian values blah blah. And now this good, Christian, conservative couple has split, just like the heathen couples. And wouldn’t you know, there’s a rumor going around that Jason cheated?
Angie Harmon and Jason Sehorn have called it quits after 13 years of marriage. The couple told friends that their hectic schedules are to blame, but Star can reveal the real reason behind the split: jealousy. Harmon, 42, who shuffles back and forth between filming Rizzoli & Isles in LA and raising her family in North Carolina, began to suspect that Jason, 43, was keeping female company while she was away.
“Jason started going out to bars with his unmarried friends,” explains the inside source. “Her friends in North Carolina told her to keep an eye on him, and the distance led to mistrust and poor communication.”
[From Star Magazine, print edition]
It wouldn’t surprise me. It also wouldn’t surprise me if Jason was actually fooling around with Angie’s North Carolina friends, the same ones who were warning her about her marriage. Because that’s just how we roll down here in the good, Christian South. Gaslighting, redneck-style. “Hey, Angie, I saw your husband at the bar the other night, he was flirting with some girls.” And then that friend will go over to “comfort” Jason when his “jealous” wife yells at him.
For what it’s worth, The National Enquirer says that the marriage failed because of all the reasons we’ve already discussed, that being on a hit show which films in LA for six months a year put a tremendous amount of stress on their marriage. Sure. But I’m still saying that both Angie and Jason were probably fooling around.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
This is suspicious given the story about her being the one acting single on set, plus most people are blaming her for the split since she chooses to be away from her family so long, bet she planted this story.
This is what I was coming to say. We just had stories about her acting like a single woman on set. I think it’s an attempt at damage control. Maybe he did run around on her. But I don’t doubt she was acting less than married at the same time. I think this is just the beginning of the blame game.
Yep, hopefully it won’t get too nasty in the press since they have children.
That was my first thought, that Angie’s PR machine has cranked in to overdrive.
You can’t have a relationship with someone who’s never there. I’ve seen that a lot in my husband’s business – men and women who are obsessed by work and aren’t there for birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, school plays, broken plumbing, dead car batteries – after a while, the one left carrying the load and raising the children gets lonely and resentful. The fact that the absent partner is earning money just doesn’t compensate for the fact that you’re handling everything else alone. They should have moved the children to LA or at least closer than NC. I feel bad for the kids.
i agree totally. in some jobs you have to work so much you wont have time for anything else. not even catching up on your favourite series. so why get children in the first place? some jobs are just not compatible with a family life. people will have to realize that and have priorities. the people you mentioned have a priority too, their work. but they were selfish enough to put children in the world while fully knowing they would never care enough about them. (and basically in all of those jobs the people arent forced to work that much, they are not single parents having to juggle three jobs to feed the family)
I was just thinking that too. Can’t imagine being away for 6 mnts out of a year from spouse dealing with all the daily stuff without moral or physical support, must feel real lonely! No wonder they break up.
Alyssa Milano gave up her lucrative role in Mistresses because production was moving to Canada and she didn’t want to be separated from her family.
and in this case, she chose to be away for 6 months out of the year instead of finding a way for the family to live together while she was working
There’s more to this story that we haven’t heard yet, beginning with the original decision to split their lives for half a year. Maybe that was in lieu of stronger measures since they didn’t want the stigma of a divorce? I’d like to know the real story. Also, I sort of don’t get these two as a couple and I’m not sure why.
thats a good point. temporarily it can make sense, especially when doing a series. most of them dont last long, so uprooting the children just for that would not be t he best choice. after the series got picked up though they would have to make a decision and they chose this one. there must have been something but its hard to guess from the outside. i would also think it was planned seperation because why else woud someone do this? then again even if you want to seperate from your spouse, why do you also seperate from the children?
That’s what I was wondering in the last post – if they were having problems before and her going to work in LA was like a trial separation. Other actors manage to work all over the world and still see their families every week or two. Plus I think her show films partially in the summer, so he and the kids could have spent time in LA with her. It seems to me like they wanted separate lives without saying as much.
Whatever the case, they have kids to think about, so I hope there’s no big public divorce battle.
Random comment. She’d be a good casting choice to play Jackie O one day. Similar eye/eyebrow configuration and dark coloring.
i agree about both. why would it always be the man? that doesnt keep up with cheating statistics. as if she always went alone to bed in LA full of male models.
Does he even work though? That could be part of the problem, too.
He seems to be a sports commentator (it was mentioned in another post):
My husband travels a lot, his first marriage broke up because he wasn’t there for the water heater breaking down, to shovel snow, take the dogs to the vet, be her date to events. I knew going in he traveled, but I also know he supports our family with his job- I work too- and time is an issue but you gotta do what you gotta do. Put your marriage first regardless of the time you have together, put your kids right up there too. I don’t worry about what’s going on when he is gone and I make sure he doesn’t worry about what’s going on at home. Angie is in a higher tax bracket then us, there are beautiful, small communities in California they could have moved to in order to be together. It sounds like she wanted to have her cake and eat it to. Sorry for her kids and wonder if they will move closer to mom now they are divorcing. If the hubs and I ever do split, it won’t be because of his traveling, he did that for our family and I love him for that- it crushes him to not always be there for school events, games, etc. He makes the most of or time together, just yesterday he taught our son to burp the abc’s! One proud papa and little man!
Honey, it’s not the women in bars you should be worried about. It’s the women in the neighborhood who you said were more than happy to help with the girls while you were gone for months. Believe me, one or two bored in their marriage probably had ulterior motives.
Yep.
Yeah, there are plenty of two-faced ‘friends’ who might do that. I’m not sure if that is only a Southern thing or not, though. He’s probably a big star in Charlotte, and she should have realized being separated so long could create huge temptations. In LA, he would not be such a big draw.
I’m certain I wouldn’t like her, but she is so drop-dead gorgeous. Jeez.
None of this makes sense. Ok, they didn’t want their kids exposed to LA…but why couldn’t they live in the 99.8 percent of California that *isn’t* LA?
They couldn’t live in Santa Barbara? Pasadena?
Before the geography squad gets on me, I realize that these placed aren’t necessarily a hop skip and a jump from LA, but it’s a damn sight closer than NC.
I don’t understand any man or woman (outside of say a musician or athlete) choosing work over marriage and family.
“Because that’s just how we roll down here in the good, Christian South. Gaslighting, redneck-style.”
What is up with the south bashing? Any evidence that infidelity happens more or less on either side of the Mason Dixon line?