“Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Whitney Rose admitted she’s at “peace” over her “devastating” divorce from Justin Rose.
“I’m the one who filed. I made that choice,” Whitney, 40, informed SiriusXM’s Page Six Radio hosts Evan Real and Danny Murphy on Thursday, as she spoke about her resolution to file for divorce for the first time.
“And you see it play out through the season,” she added. “It took me a long time to get here.”
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Whitney insisted that she wished her practically 17-year marriage to Justin, 58, “to work,” noting she “gave it [her] all” and “tried everything.”
“It’s very sad and hard,” she said, including, “But I am glowing because I’m finding happiness and peace. I have peace in my heart through all the chaos. I love Justin. I love my family.”
The Bravolebrity defined that now that she and Justin are formally getting divorced, the exes are totally centered on their two youngsters, daughter Bobbie, 16, and son Brooks, 13,
“We are keeping it peaceful, amicable and we’re co-parenting well,” she shared.
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Additionally, Whitney pointed out that despite leaving the Mormon Church 20 years in the past, her “Mormon roots” have affected how she considered marriage and divorce.
“I still have that Mormon programming running through my brain that you don’t get divorced,” she acknowledged. “You don’t do that to your family.”
“I grew up in a divorced family, and a childhood that was hard,” Whitney continued, explaining that she didn’t need her youngsters to wrestle during their guardian’s divorce, so she determined to be sincere with them about the divorce.
“I pushed off doing it and having the conversation with them for so long,” she recalled. “I think me choosing to leave the home, separating and nesting, we put that off for so long because I was so scared to tell the kids.”
She added, “But once I told the kids, they were like, ‘Thank you. We want you happy. We want dad happy.”
And, as Whitney famous, “it’s more selfish of me to stay in a situation where I’m not happy in.”
Whitney further confirmed that her youngsters are doing “amazing” and “are fine because they have two parents who love them.”
“And we are both showing up for them,” she said.
Page Six solely revealed that Whitney filed for divorce from Justin in Salt Lake City last Tuesday night time, hours before attended Page Six’s second annual “Virtual Reali-Tea” Awards.
Whitney submitted a proposed parenting plan as properly, we can confirm.
Page Six also solely revealed in July that Whitney and Justin were “living separate lives,” with a few informants even saying the two were totally separated.
“They are never together, even when they’re in the same place, like the gym,” an insider defined.
Another source argued that “RHOSLC” is “so unhealthy on relationships, as Page Six broke the information of Angie Katsanevas’ separation from Shawn Trujillo just two days prior.