{"id":890367,"date":"2026-09-13T10:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T10:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/890367\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T10:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T10:02:19","slug":"reacher-star-alan-ritchson-and-wife-catherine-ritchson-announce-split-after-20-years-of-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/890367\/","title":{"rendered":"Reacher star Alan Ritchson and wife Catherine Ritchson announce split after 20 years of marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reacher<\/a> actor Alan Ritchson<\/a> and his wife, Catherine Ritchson, have announced their separation<\/a> after two decades of marriage.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 20 years together, Cat and I have decided to end our marriage and continue alongside one another in a different way,\u201d the 43-year-old shared in a statement on social media.<\/p>\n

\"Catherine<\/p>\n

Catherine Ritchson and Alan Ritchson married in 2006.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

\u201cWe grew up together. We built a life and a family together, and we are raising three incredible boys who will always be the centre of our world,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing can diminish what these years have meant to us \u2013 or the love and respect we will always share.\u201d<\/p>\n

The couple share three sons, Calem, 13, Edan, 12, and Amory, 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best gift we can give one another \u2013 and our boys \u2013 right now is friendship, grace and commitment to becoming the strongest co-parents<\/a> we can be,\u201d Ritchson said.<\/p>\n

The pair asked for privacy as they worked through the break-up.<\/p>\n

\u201cChange is hard enough without the whole world weighing in. We hope, especially for the sake of our boys, that you will allow our family to move through this chapter with privacy and compassion,\u201d their statement said.<\/p>\n

Ritchson was 17 when he met a 16-year-old Catherine in a ballet class.<\/p>\n

Following a brief teenage romance, they reconnected in their 20s and tied the knot in 2006.<\/p>\n

Ritchson had a long history of praising his wife for supporting his career and helping him navigate his bipolar disorder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"NEW<\/p>\n

The Ritchsons and their sons walked a red carpet in July.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

\u201cThank God for someone with the unspeakable strength, persistence, resilience, patience, grace, love, compassion and forgiveness to suffer through the valleys with me,\u201d Ritchson said in a 2023 anniversary tribute to Catherine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am eternally grateful that God knew well enough to gift me a life with her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The couple\u2019s last public appearance was in July, when they attended the New York premiere of Ritchson\u2019s action thriller film, Motor City, with their children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reacher actor Alan Ritchson and his wife, Catherine Ritchson, have announced their separation after two decades of marriage.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-890367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}