“Today” show host Dylan Dreyer got candid about the breakdown of her marriage to Brian Fichera four months after they announced their separation.
“Everybody has their reasons for what leads to a separation or divorce,” the TV personality shared on Wednesday’s episode of “Today with Jenna & Friends.”
“There was something we couldn’t fix, so now we have reframed our relationship [so] that we are no longer husband and wife.”
Dreyer, 44, explained that it was “freeing” that she and Fichera could decide whether they wanted to continue trying to fix their marriage or “accept that [it was] broken” and “take [a] new step forward.”
“All those things that are broken, I don’t hold them against you because we accepted they’re broken,” she continued.
“That’s why we’re separated,” the TV host elaborated, sharing that she and Fichera have agreed to make amends over the undisclosed brokenness of their union and move forward as friends.
“Just like a friend, you give them a little more grace when you’re not married to it,” Dreyer said. “And I can be a better friend than a wife.”
Elsewhere, the meteorologist added that she and Fichera have also talked to their three sons — Calvin, Oliver, and Rusty — about their separation.
“I asked Calvin. I said, ‘What do you think a family is?’” she said. “And he said, ‘Well, it’s a group of people that love each other.’”
“And I said, ‘That’s what we are. And we will always be that for you. But Mommy and Daddy work better as friends than as husband and wife,’” Dreyer explained.
“And [Calvin] doesn’t care about a title. He doesn’t care what we are officially, none of them do. They are surrounded by love every single day.”
Dreyer shared that her and Fichera’s co-parenting relationship involves the latter taking their kids to school and joining them for dinner.
The exes will also celebrate Thanksgiving together later this month.
“I have three boys,” Dreyer said. “I want their dad in their lives. They need that. They need both the dynamic of a father and a mother. We’re providing that to them in the best way possible.”
In July, Dreyer confirmed that she and the cameraman had parted ways after 13 years of marriage via Instagram.
At the time, she subtly hinted at trouble in paradise after opting out of wearing her wedding ring on the “Today” show.
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