Channing Tatum makes a rare comment about his tumultuous divorce from his “Step Up” co-star, Jenna Dewan.
The two, who were married for nearly 10 years, finally finalized their divorce in 2024, six years after Dewan first filed to end their marriage.
“Jenna and I are good now, but it was a painful break to have that fall apart, especially being so young,” Tatum said in an interview with Variety, published earlier this week.
“We tried to keep it together, tried for a year and a half,” he said. The two eventually parted ways in 2018.
“It’s in the past,” he added, before talking about co-parenting with Dewan. “But it’s really tough not to have your daughter half the time. I wish I could just have her all the time.”
Tatum has spoken about the two’s split before, calling it “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’s next,” he said in a 2023 interview with Vanity Fair.
“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,” he added.
Tatum met Dewan on the set of their hit movie, “Step Up,” in 2006. The two got married three years later. They share one child together, a 13-year-old daughter named Everly.
Dewan moved on with her now-fiancé, Steve Kazee, whom she shares two children with.
Tatum was recently engaged to actor Zoë Kravitz, but the two called things off in 2024.