Fox Sports activities host Charissa Thompson was delivered to tears whereas discussing her current divorce from sports agent Kyle Thousand after two years of marriage.
Thompson filed for divorce April 19, citing “irreconcilable variations” as the rationale for the break up, in keeping with court documents obtained by The Blast.
“As one’s love story begins, one other one ends,” Thompson said throughout a brand new episode of her “Calm Down” podcast with Erin Andrews Thursday. The 2 had been chatting about Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s engagement earlier this month.
“Full disclosure I like you and I’m happy with you,” Andrews replied.
“I had a sh—y week,” Thompson mentioned. “The information of my pending divorce got here out and it’s clearly not one thing that I wished in any respect as any person who grew up in a household — my dad and mom had been married since they’re 18. I belief within the establishment and I’m any person that’s been married and divorced earlier than, so once I acquired married the second time I used to be so hopeful that it could be what you get up there and say it is going to be, which is, without end, for higher or for worse, and all of the issues.”
It was the primary time Thompson addressed her second divorce publicly. She was beforehand married at age 25, although it’s unclear to whom.
“So far as the precise [divorce] announcement, it was a call that I didn’t attain in a single day,” she mentioned. “I’ve been privately coping with this for some time and my well being stuff… quite a bit that of that stuff I do know was associated to the stress that I used to be beneath to return to this determination that was not simple to make.
“It comes right down to this, and that is my recommendation to anybody, it’s a must to do what’s finest for you. You get one life and this factor is actual brief. So, I knew that I had exhausted all of the choices to attempt to preserve my marriage in tact and I’ve nothing however love and respect for my now former important different. Nevertheless it simply reached some extent the place I knew that I used to be higher off on my own.”
Thompson went on to confess that “it’s embarrassing now having been divorced twice,” at her age. She famous her upcoming fortieth birthday in Could.
“I’m embarrassed to confess that you already know, that is now my second divorce at 40,” she mentioned, showing to tear up. “And then you definitely fear about this, ‘Oh, you possibly can’t preserve a person. Oh, what did you do?’ There are all these like secondary, third, fourth stage questions that you just begin to consider… Then you concentrate on having children, and I don’t have a big different… There are such a lot of totally different layers. However that isn’t a cause to remain in one thing that isn’t making both of you content and also you finally need to decide that’s finest for you. Even when it feels egocentric, it’s your life… ultimately that’s the place I’m at.
Thompson married Thousand in a small ceremony Dec. 30, 2020 in Scottsdale, Ariz. They moved the nuptials to Scottsdale as a result of earlier COVID-19 restrictions in California, the place they’re primarily based.
Thompson mentioned she’s had “great individuals” attain out, telling her that they’re “so sorry” about her state of affairs.
“I don’t need individuals to really feel sorry for me. It’s my determination and it’s my life and it’s a call that I’m at peace with now that I actually struggled to make — and also you [Andrews] held my hand by your complete course of as you will have with so many issues, for the primary divorce and this one,” she mentioned about Andrews. “Ultimately I’m comfortable that each my ex and I can transfer on peacefully and be amicable about it, in order that’s primary. And there’s no children concerned, as a result of that’s an entire different factor.”
Thompson mentioned she’s going to get into extra particulars in regards to the divorce in a later podcast episode, explaining that “there are just a few authorized issues” she must work by.
“The truth that I acquired to return and date once more… sh-t’s about to get very fascinating,” she mentioned, hinting that she’d share her courting expertise on the “Calm Down” podcast. She added that she received’t be taking part in on-line courting.
