Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth Announce Divorce

On Friday, Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth introduced that they’re ending their practically 12-year marriage.

“We’ve got some private information to share…,” reads the joint assertion posted to Witherspoon’s Instagram. “It’s with quite a lot of care and consideration that we now have made the tough choice to divorce. We’ve got loved so many fantastic years collectively and are transferring ahead with deep love, kindness and mutual respect for every little thing we now have created collectively.”

“Our greatest precedence is our son and our total household as we navigate this subsequent chapter,” they added. “These issues are by no means straightforward and are extraordinarily private. We actually respect everybody’s respect for our household’s privateness presently.”

Witherspoon, and Toth, previously a high expertise agent who labored with the likes of Robert Downey, Jr. and Scarlett Johansson, received engaged in 2010, earlier than marrying in a March 2011 ceremony in Ojai, California. She’s spoken often about their marriage via the years, together with telling Elle journal the story of how they met in 2012: 

It occurred out of the blue. This actually drunk man was hitting on me, making such an fool of himself, yelling at me. He was like, [slurring, scowling, pointing finger in her face] `You do not know me.’ And I used to be like, `Yeah, I do know. I do not know you!’ Jim came visiting and mentioned, `Please excuse my pal. He is simply damaged up with somebody.’ Jim was a very good pal, pulling him out of that state of affairs. That is simply type of who he’s, a very good individual.

Collectively they’ve son Tennessee James, 10. Witherspoon and her ex-husband, Ryan Phillippe, additionally share two youngsters, daughter Ava, 23, and son Deacon, 19.