POLITICAL commentator and YouTuber Steven Crowder revealed that he
and his wife, Hilary, are getting a divorce after a decade of marriage.
Crowder
made the announcement on Tuesday during an episode of his podcast, Louder
with Crowder.
"I have been living with a proverbial boot on my
neck for going on years now," Crowder said.
"Since 2021, I've
been living through what has increasingly been a horrendous divorce."
Crowder
clarified that the end of his marriage wasn't a result of infidelity or any
kind of physical abuse on either side.
"And no, this was not my choice," he added. "My then-wife
decided that she didn't want to be married anymore and in the state of
Texas, that is completely permitted."
Crowder called it the most heartbreaking experience of his life and
considers the divorce his "deepest personal failure."
He said
that he and his ex-wife Hilary decided to keep the issue private for the
safety of their two children.
"In all this, one thing I wanna be
really clear about is certain. True north here is that my children are
blameless, completely without fault, and so we decided to resolve these
issues privately as it's in their best interest both emotionally and
physically to do so."
It's unclear if the divorce has been
finalized yet but Crowder says that it has been an issue that he has been
dealing with for "years."
"I loved a woman so much that I married her," said Crowder.
"A
woman who, despite all of this, I still love as the mother of my children
and she wanted something else for her life.
"That's not my
choice, she simply wanted out and the law says that that's how it works."
'PERFECT'
MARRIAGE
The couple married in August 2012 and Crowder would
proudly flood his social media with photos praising his then-wife as "the
most beautiful woman in the world."
He also wrote "Waiting till
the wedding night – getting married the right way" explaining his view on
the benefits of remaining abstinent prior to marriage.
Before the
wedding, Steven told his fans he had been excitedly waiting for his wedding
day since childhood.
The podcaster revealed via FOX News: "Our
wedding was perfect. Our wedding night was nothing short of amazing.
"Feeling judged? I couldn’t care less. You know why? Because my
wife and I were judged all throughout our relationship.
"People
laughed, scoffed, and poked fun at the young, celibate, naive Christian
couple.
"We’d certainly never make it to the wedding without
schtupping, and if we did, our 'wedding night would be awkward and
terrible,' they said.
"Turns out that people couldn’t have been
more wrong."
They welcomed twins in 2021 - a son, Magnus, and a
daughter, Charlotte.
The Crowders are very private when it comes
to their children, saying that they agreed not to show them in the public
eye "until they're old enough to make that decision their selves."
