01/22/2023
Channing Tatum Just Got Super Real About His “Super Scary” Divorce from Jenna Dewan in Vanity Fair. Channing Tatum is opening up about his 2019 divorce from ex-wife Jenna Dewan like never before.
“We fought for it for a really long time, even though we both sort of knew that we had sort of grown apart,” Tatum shared. “I think we told ourselves a story when we were young, and we just kept telling ourselves that story, no matter how blatantly life was telling us that we were so different.”
He added that throwing parenting in the mix only made the pair’s incompatibilities more apparent. “But when you’re actually parents, you really understand differences between the two of you. Because it is screaming at you all day long,” the actor explained. “How you parent differently, how you look at the world, how you go through the world.”
Tatum revealed that although the initial stages of the divorce were “super scary and terrifying,” he believes it encouraged him to work on himself. “Your life just turns on its axis. This whole plan that you had literally just turns into sand and goes through your fingers and you’re just like, ‘Oh, s**t. What now?’” he said, adding, “It was probably exactly what I needed. I don’t think I would’ve ever done the work, I think, on myself in the way that I had to do the work on myself to really try to figure out what next.”
“In business, I have no real fear of anything being destroyed. But heart things, when it comes to people I love, I have a really hard time. I end up trying too hard, you know?” he continued, adding that his goal going forward is to take things slower. “So I can actually experience these moments, instead of just trying to change it or something. Or being afraid that it’s not going to work out how I wanted or something.”