has opened up about the heartbreaking fall-out of her 11-year marriage to second husband Peter Facinelli, which ended in divorce in 2013.
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Jennie Garth has opened up about the heartbreaking fall-out of her 11-year marriage to second husband Peter Facinelli, which ended in divorce in 2013.In her mem...
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In her memoir I Choose Me - hitting shelves next Tuesday - the 54-year-old Beverly Hills, 90210 alum wrote about drinking heavily and taking so many pills one night she had to have her stomach pumped.
Garth got sober and learned how to stop self-medicating thanks, in part, to a stint at rehab center, The Canyon at Santa Monica.
'I spent a good amount of years being hurt, sad, just tormented by it, and it eked out into all aspects of my life,' the empty nester told People on Wednesday.
'I noticed my light really dimming. I wasn't putting off good vibes. I could see it in the mirror. I could look at the negative impact that that kind of grief and anger was having on me.'
Garth continued: 'And there was a weird switch where one day I just said, "I don't want to carry this anymore. It's impacting my relationships and how I feel about myself. I've got to let it go. I've got to forgive him."'
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Jennie Garth has opened up about the heartbreaking fall-out of her 11-year marriage to second husband Peter Facinelli, which ended in divorce the following year (pictured in 1996)
The I Choose Me podcaster finally patched things up with the 52-year-old Twilight alum in 2024, and he admitted on her iHeartRadio show: 'I was in this marriage [that] felt to me a little bit like an arranged marriage.'
Facinelli confessed he wouldn't have stayed in the marriage that long had they not had kids, and Garth admitted she 'could have been better' not bitter over sharing custody of daughters Fiona, 19, Lola, 23, and Luca, 28.
The Me by Jennie Garth designer was still married to her first husband Daniel Clark when she first met the two-time SAG Award nominee in 1995 on the set of their ABC movie An Unfinished Affair, but she divorced Clark by November the next year.
In her memoir I Choose Me - hitting shelves next Tuesday - the 54-year-old Beverly Hills, 90210 alum wrote about drinking heavily and taking so many pills one night she had to have her stomach pumped
Garth got sober and learned how to stop self-medicating thanks, in part, to a stint at California rehab center, The Canyon at Santa Monica (pictured February 13)
'I spent a good amount of years being hurt, sad, just tormented by it, and it eked out into all aspects of my life,' the empty nester told People on Wednesday (pictured March 26)
'I noticed my light really dimming. I wasn't putting off good vibes. I could see it in the mirror. I could look at the negative impact that that kind of grief and anger was having on me' (pictured last Friday)
Garth continued: 'And there was a weird switch where one day I just said, "I don't want to carry this anymore. It's impacting my relationships and how I feel about myself. I've got to let it go. I've got to forgive him"' (pictured in 2010)
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The I Choose Me podcaster finally patched things up with the 52-year-old Twilight alum in 2024, and he admitted on her iHeartRadio show: 'I was in this marriage [that] felt to me a little bit like an arranged marriage'
Facinelli confessed he wouldn't have stayed in the marriage that long had they not had kids, and Garth admitted she 'could have been better' not bitter over sharing custody of daughters Fiona, 19, Lola, 23, and Luca, 28 (pictured in 2024)
The Me by Jennie Garth designer was still married to her first husband Daniel Clark when she first met the two-time SAG Award nominee in 1995 on the set of their ABC movie An Unfinished Affair, but she divorced Clark by November the next year (pictured in 1998)
Garth and her third husband - The Douglas co-owner David Abrams (L, pictured February 28) - will celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary on July 11 despite legally separating between 2017-2019 due to miscarriages and IVF stress
'I really wanted to give Dave a baby because he was young and all of his friends were having kids and I just thought that's what he needed,' the Illinois-born blonde said. 'It all comes down to people-pleasing' (pictured March 31)
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Facinelli met his fiancée of six years, Lily Anne Harrison (center, pictured last summer), on the dating app Raya, and she wrote and starred in his upcoming fourth directorial feature, Grace Period
The Bring the Law star and the 37-year-old actress invited their three-year-old son Jack to the set of the IVF rom-com
Grace Period also features Facinelli's former Twilight co-star Ashley Greene (L) as well as Seth Green, Matthew Friend, Beverly D'Angelo and Natasha Leggero
Garth is scheduled to kick off her 12-date I Choose Me book tour this Saturday at WBUR CitySpace's Brookline Booksmith in Boston, MA (pictured February 19)
Grace Period also features Facinelli's former Twilight co-star Ashley Greene as well as Seth Green, Matthew Friend, Beverly D'Angelo and Natasha Leggero.
But first, fans attending The Nostalgia Con can catch the Queens-born actor and his Twilight castmates Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Nikki Reed and Kellan Lutz at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX this Saturday and Sunday.
Garth is scheduled to kick off her 12-date I Choose Me book tour this Saturday at WBUR CitySpace's Brookline Booksmith in Boston, MA.
Fans can also shell out between $60-$250 to attend the QVC collaborator's second annual I Choose Me event happening at iHeartTheater Los Angeles in Burbank, CA on April 25, which will also feature her former castmate Gabrielle Carteris.
Garth hasn't had an acting gig since portraying concerned mother Joan Miller in Bill Corcoran's 2022 crime thriller Bad Influence, which streamed on Tubi TV.
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