Channing Tatum is getting real about matters of the heart.
In his new cover feature for Vanity Fair’s February issue, he revealed a lot of interesting information in his interview. The 42-year-old actor got candid about his ex wife Jenna Dewan and their separation. The couple split in 2018 after 9 years together.
Channing opened up about the lead-up to his split form Jenna, saying about his life then:
“I was working a lot. I had gotten to work with some of my favorite directors. I had checked boxes that I would never have hoped to dream about. But something just wasn’t quite filling me up.
I was sort of kind of just trying not to be bad in movies, instead of being good. And I was kind of going, ‘What’s…’ And it really had nothing to do with my work. It was really about my life.”
He went on to speak about how he fought for his marriage with her:
“We fought for it for a really long time, even though we both sort of knew that we had sort of grown apart.
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.
But when you’re actually parents you really understand differences between the two of you. Because it is screaming at you all day long. How you parent differently, how you look at the world, how you go through the world.”
He also spoke about life post-split:
“In the beginning, it was super scary and terrifying. 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, sh-t. What now?’”
And he said this about the bright side of his separation:
“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. And really, it just started with my daughter.
I just dropped everything and just focused on her. And it was truly the best possible thing that I ever could have done. Because in the alone time that I have with just me and her, we’ve become best friends.”
So would he ever get married again? Here’s what he had to say:
“I don’t know if I’m ever going to get married again….Relationships are hard for me. Even though I am a bit of a monogamist.
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?”
