Ricky Martin is speaking for the first time about his divorce from husband, Jwan Yosef.
The couple were married for six years, but the decision to split had been in the works for more than three years.
Martin told journalist Lourdes Collazo in an interview for Telemundo Puerto Rico,
Jwan and I will always be family. We have two children that we are going to raise together. But this isn’t something new. We have been planning this situation for a long time. This is pre-pandemic.”
We looked into each other’s eyes and smiled and we hugged. We went through the highs and lows. We cried together and we laughed together.
When the public found out that we were divorcing we had already gone through a process of much solitude.
We were firm that this is what needed to happen for his well-being, my well-being, and for our children. We’re better than ever.”
Martin and Jwan share daughter Lucia, 4, and son Renn, 3. Martin had has 14-year-old twin sons, Matteo and Valentino, prior to meeting Yosef.
But Martin and Josef, despite their problems, never let their kids see hem arguing,
My children never saw a fight between Jwan and me. That’s why it’s like,
‘Are you going to divorce, are you going to separate, how?’
because we resolved our differences with a good talk, over in our room.”
As far as how the older kids handled the news,
When we told them, it was like,
‘Well, Dad, are you okay, are you happy? Is this the decision? Don’t do it for us, we’re okay.’”
Martin and Yosef met via Instagram in 2015 and became engaged a year later and in January 2018, Martin revealed they married in a secret ceremony.
(via Queerty)
