{"id":82239,"date":"2025-08-19T22:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/82239\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:31:08","slug":"drake-bell-says-his-marriage-is-irretrievably-broken-in-new-divorce-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/82239\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Bell Says His Marriage Is &#8216;Irretrievably Broken&#8217; in New Divorce Petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Drake Bell<br \/>\n                          Files For Divorce From His Wife &#8230;<br \/>\n                          Claims Marriage Is Shattered<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published August 19, 2025 12:19 PM PDT<br \/>\n                                                                      |<br \/>\n                Updated August 19, 2025 1:11 PM PDT\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250818_3403bee01ba2489cbeaf7af38282c2c4\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:40ddc5ae-dad8-4576-ba48-b6a94e8975bd\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3403bee01ba2489cbeaf7af38282c2c4_md.jpg\" alt=\"drake bell janet bell getty comp\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/drake-bell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drake B<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/drake-bell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ell<\/a>&#8216;s marriage to his wife is &#8220;irretrievably broken&#8221; after 4 years together and one child &#8230; according to the former child actor&#8217;s divorce petition.<\/p>\n<p>As we first reported, Bell &#8212; who shot to stardom in Nickelodeon&#8217;s &#8220;Drake and Josh&#8221; show &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/08\/16\/drake-bell-files-for-divorce-from-his-wife-years-after-she-filed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filed for divorce<\/a> last week in Seminole County, Florida \u2026 even though Janet Bell&#8217;s already filed a 2023 divorce petition in Los Angeles County.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250818_1fd5a0495498408d8607c0e1d6cc76fa\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:40ddc5ae-dad8-4576-ba48-b6a94e8975bd\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1fd5a0495498408d8607c0e1d6cc76fa_md.jpg\" alt=\"drake bell janet bell getty\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his petition, Drake says their marriage is \u201cirretrievably broken\u201d and he plans to hammer out a settlement with Janet for &#8220;equitable distribution&#8221; of all marital assets, liabilities and child support.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bell also says he wants an approved parenting plan to resolve their obligations to their 4-year-old child, Wyatt, including a time-sharing schedule. What&#8217;s more, Drake is asking the judge to allow the estranged couple to share parental responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20230421_3f8dbff349714ea3baab204c9a9927f6\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:40ddc5ae-dad8-4576-ba48-b6a94e8975bd\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3f8dbff349714ea3baab204c9a9927f6_md.jpg\" alt=\"0420 Janet Von Schmeling drake bell mega\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Janet&#8217;s petition &#8230; she requests primary legal and physical custody of Wyatt, while asking the court to grant Drake visitation rights.<\/p>\n<p>Janet also seeks spousal support, but her divorce case has seen little movement since she filed it 2 years ago. However, just this month &#8212; prior to Drake&#8217;s filing &#8212; a hearing was scheduled for December 2025 in Janet&#8217;s divorce case.<\/p>\n<p>About the only thing clear in this Bell break-up: \u00a0When one divorce isn&#8217;t enough, try two!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drake Bell Files For Divorce From His Wife &#8230; Claims Marriage Is Shattered Published August 19, 2025 12:19&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,44,82,865,866],"class_list":["post-82239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}