Alan Ritchson has announced that he and wife of 20 years, Catherine, have decided to separate.
The muscular 43-year-old Reacher actor and his 42-year-old wife took to his Instagram on Saturday to announce the sad news via a collaborative post.
Alan and Catherine, 42, share three sons together: 13-year-old Calem, 12-year-old Edan and 10-year-old son Amory Tristan.
The two have been in each other’s lives for 27 years as they were high school sweethearts.
They began dating after meeting in a ballet class in Florida as Alan was 17-years-old and Catherine was 16-years-old.
Alan and Catherine got engaged in 2005 and married a year later in 2006.
Alan Ritchson has announced that he and wife of 27 years, Catherine, have decided to separate (they are pictured together in New York back in February 2024)
Ritchson is seen in his Amazon Prime series Reacher
The Instagram post read: ‘After twenty years together, Cat and I have decided to end our marriage and continue alongside one another in a different way.
‘We grew up together. We built a life and a family together. And we are raising three incredible boys who will always be the center of our world. Nothing can diminish what these years have meant to us – or the love and respect we will always share.’
The estranged couple concluded by declaring their devotion to raising their children together as they asked for personal privacy.
They wrote: ‘The best gift we can give one another – and our boys – right now is friendship, grace, and a commitment to become the strongest co-parents we can be. We also want to give each other room to grow into the people we are becoming.
‘Change is hard enough without the whole world weighing in. We hope, especially for the sake of our boys, that you will allow our family to move through this chapter with privacy and compassion.
‘Thank you for supporting us as we continue making the health and happiness of our family our priority. – Cat and Alan’
Catherine previously talked about meeting Alan for the first time as teenagers in that aforementioned dance class.
She said during an appearance on The Road to Wisdom podcast in 2023: ‘I’ll never forget seeing him for the first time in the [dance] studio. I turned to my friend Miriam and I said, “Who is that?”
The muscular 43-year-old Reacher actor and his 42-year-old wife took to his Instagram on Saturday to announce the sad news via a collaborative post
The estranged couple concluded by declaring their devotion to raising their children together as they asked for personal privacy
‘He, at some point, came up to me and we just got chatting.’
