{"id":2041099,"date":"2025-09-22T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2041099"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:52:00","slug":"hgtvs-jen-hatmaker-opens-up-about-devastating-divorce-from-cheating-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hgtvs-jen-hatmaker-opens-up-about-devastating-divorce-from-cheating-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"HGTV\u2019s Jen Hatmaker Opens Up About \u2018Devastating\u2019 Divorce From Cheating Husband"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jen Hatmaker is opening up about the breakdown of her marriage in her new memoir, Awake<\/em><\/a>, in which she reveals the exact moment she found out her then-husband, Brandon Hatmaker, was cheating on her.<\/p>\n

In the book, per the celebrity.land,<\/em><\/a> Jen writes that on July 11, 2020, at around 2:30 am, she woke up to the sound of her husband whispering on the phone to another woman. She says that he smelled of booze, and just before he drifted off to sleep, he whispered, \u201cI just can\u2019t quit you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jen writes that that was the moment everything changed, describing it as \u201cthe end of my life as I [knew] it.\u201d<\/p>\n

After hearing the call, Jen explains how she got up and started digging through Brandon\u2019s computer, where she discovered a \u201ctrail of betrayal.\u201d She doesn\u2019t say exactly how long the affair had been going on, only calling it a \u201cdevastating time span.\u201d She also says Brandon plunged the family into \u201cfinancial chaos\u201d by showering his mistress with \u201cexpensive and lavish gifts.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next morning, she kicked Brandon out of the house, effectively bringing an end to their 26-year marriage. The former couple tied the knot in 1993 and went on to welcome five children, two of whom were adopted from Ethiopia. They founded the evangelical Austin New Church in Texas in 2008 and hosted the HGTV series\u00a0My Big Family Renovation<\/em>\u00a0in 2014.<\/p>\n

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Brandon and Jen Hatmaker; Jen Hatmaker Facebook<\/p>\n

\u201cTo some degree, I almost disassociated,\u201d Jen told The Post<\/em> when discussing her reaction to her ex-husband\u2019s late-night call. \u201cIt was so outside the realm of what I would have ever considered a possibility for our life, our marriage, our story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so shocking and stunning, and I almost could not process it,\u201d she added. \u201cI couldn\u2019t even cry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jen told the outlet that the marriage \u201chad been in trouble\u201d before 2020, revealing she and Brandon hadn\u2019t had sex for two years. However, after they started attending marriage counseling in April 2020, she thought they were turning a new leaf.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought that we were deeply working to repair,\u201d she shared. \u201cWe had kind of reconnected sexually \u2026 And so there, at the very bitter end, I thought that we were trying, but we actually weren\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added, \u201cThere were a lot of unaccounted absences, and the phone was never ever, ever, ever out of his hand or sight. All the warning signs were there, but I did not want to face those.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jen also revealed how Brandon made \u201cno reconciliation effort\u201d once she uncovered the affair. In her memoir, out Tuesday (September 23), she writes, \u201cHe [told] me clearly that \u2018trying requires certain feelings to be there\u2019 and they aren\u2019t anymore and they won\u2019t be coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the end of her marriage, Jen has left the church she founded, as being there was too triggering, and is now in a long-distance relationship with author Tyler Merritt. She also became a grandmother for the first time in August.<\/p>\n

Read the latest entertainment news on TV Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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