Ricky Martin has revealed when he and his husband, Jwan Yosef, decided to divorce ― and it’s much earlier than previously thought.
The singer told Telemundo Puerto Rico in an exclusive interview on Thursday that the two “had already gone through a grieving process” by the time “the public found out.”
“Jwan and I will always be family,” Martin, 51, told the outlet, in remarks translated by HuffPost’s Lourdes Avila Uribe. “We have two children that we are going to raise together, and this is not a recent decision.”
“We have been planning this situation for a long time,” he explained. “It’s pre-pandemic.”
The two told People magazine in an exclusive statement last month that they had “decided to end our marriage with love, respect and dignity for our children and honoring what we have experienced as a couple all these wonderful years.”
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Martin and Yosef also said in a joint message on their respective Instagram pages that they were “transforming” their relationship after six years of marriage. The two said they were “united in nurturing this new chapter in our lives.”
The couple revealed in 2018 that they had gotten married. Martin said at the time that he and Yosef had “signed all the papers that we needed to sign, prenups and everything.”
The couple met via Instagram and made their red carpet debut in 2016, getting engaged the same year. They went on to welcome two children, Lucia, in 2018, and Renn, in 2019. Martin also has twin boys, Matteo and Valentino, who were born via surrogate in 2008.