Nation singer Sara Evans is reflecting on her “actually horrific” divorce from ex-husband Craig Schelske — which led to her departure from Dancing With the Stars in 2006.
“I used to be killing myself. It was so exhausting,” Evans, 53, mentioned through the Thursday, April 4, episode of her “Diving in Deep” podcast. “It was one of many hardest occasions in my life.”
The singer admitted that her “marriage was dissolving” months earlier than turning into a DWTS forged member through the present’s third season. “I knew that I wanted to get out of the wedding, however I didn’t imagine in divorce, I didn’t need to divorce.”
Evans and Schelske have been married from 1993 to 2007 and share three youngsters collectively. She filed for divorce in October 2006, accusing Schelske of infidelity, verbal and emotional abuse and claiming that he watched pornography of their home. Accusations which he denied on the time. Almost a 12 months later, the divorce was finalized with the pair getting joint custody of their youngsters.
After assembly her DWTS accomplice, Tony Dovolani, he requested what was occurring in her marriage. That was the second Evans realized it was “apparent” she and Schelske have been having main issues.
“As I used to be showing on Dancing With the Stars, the wedding was breaking down. We tried marriage counseling loads,” Evans continued, noting it felt like her ex-husband was “pulling me again” when it comes to profession milestones.
Sara Evans and Craig Schelske John Sciulli/WireImage
“He needed to be at each episode and are available down right here and be seen on TV, on digital camera,” Evans claimed. “Additionally on the identical time, he was making an attempt to make a case in opposition to me to indicate that I used to be working and never being a superb mother.”
Whereas Evans was on DWTS, she would even have to meet concert events that had already been booked — all whereas coping with marital points.
“I might be on Dancing with the Stars, and you could possibly see a number of the episodes, my eyes have been simply blood purple swollen as a result of I’d been crying the entire day, lacking my youngsters,” Evans recalled, saying that she’s “glad” for the DWTS expertise regardless of it occurring throughout a “horrific time” in her life.
Finally, Evans mentioned she “reached my restrict” and known as divorce attorneys in Nashville.
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“The habits was so dangerous, and I simply realized I don’t need to elevate these youngsters with him, with this,” she alleged. “I’m not going to say why, however there have been excellent the reason why.”
Evans claimed that issues have been “getting scary” along with her ex and issues got here to a breaking level when she was out to dinner along with her youngsters after a DWTS taping. “One thing occurred on the restaurant,” Evans mentioned, not providing particulars — however revealing her plans to file for divorce the next day.
“I needed to give up Dancing with the Stars as a result of the subsequent day we have been going to begin the group dance rehearsals and due to the trauma that my youngsters went by on the restaurant,” Evans recalled asserting her departure from the present, with out providing particulars. “[I had to] clarify that my youngsters have been traumatized and I’m not leaving them for 5 seconds, and so I’ve to give up the present.”
She married present husband, Jay Barker — a former soccer participant and radio host — in June 2008.
