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After three years of marriage, Flight Attendant and Big Bang Theory actress Kaley Cuoco and her spouse Karl Cook announced their divorce in September 2021. Cook, 31, and Cuoco, 36, began dating in 2016. The couple got engaged on her birthday in November 2017 and married on June 30, 2018. “Despite a profound love and respect for one another, we have realized that our current paths have brought us in divergent ways,” they said in a joint statement to PEOPLE in September 2021.
Kaley Cuoco recently discussed the dark place she went following her divorce and how it influenced her performance on The Flight Attendant. So, what has she revealed about her divorce from Karl Cook, the son of millionaire businessman Scott D. Cook?
Kaley Cuoco Files For Divorce
Kaley Cuoco and Karl Cook announced their divorce on social media in September 2021. “Despite our profound love and respect for one another, we have realized that our current paths have brought us in divergent ways,” they said at the time in a joint statement.
“We’ve both shared so much of our journey publicly, so while we’d like to keep this portion of our personal lives private, we wanted to be open and honest with one other.” “There is no hostility or anger, on the contrary. We made this choice with great respect and consideration for one another, and we ask that you do the same with the understanding that we will not be releasing any other details.”
Why Did Kaley Cuoco Fight To Walk After Divorce?
Following her divorce from her second husband, the Flight Attendant actress revealed in a recent interview with Variety that she was unable to walk and even organized an intervention for herself. “It was a really difficult moment going through my divorce,” Cuoco told the outlet. “I just didn’t know what to do about it.
” I was pouring myself into work to distract myself from my despair and how frustrated I was.” Cuoco plays Cassie Bowden, a disturbed flight attendant who stumbles into a sinister international plan that threatens her life in the HBO program. “It was dreadful. “I also had a stress rash that ran all the way down my body for three months straight and wouldn’t go away,” she added in the interview. “For three months, I literally had a fire on my leg.” “I couldn’t even walk.”
Kaley Cuoco was suffering from more than simply the breakup of her marriage. Her character in The Flight Attendant was likewise dealing with difficulties. She admits to having “one of the most difficult years of my life,” adding, “I was truly losing my mind.” “It was the first time I went to therapy – I’ve been quite upfront about it,” Cuoco said.
How Kaley Cuoco Used The Flight Attendant To Express Her Emotions?
“The episode that I submitted for [the Emmys] was Episode 5, with that beach sequence,” she told Variety, revealing that she used The Flight Attendants’ evocative storyline and her disturbed character to express her own dark thoughts. ”My director, Pete Chapman, had approached me the day before and was quite nice. ‘How do you want to shoot this tomorrow?’ he asks. ‘Can you just position cameras around the beach and start rolling?’ I asked. And I just cried for two hours.”
This difficult period marked the beginning of a new chapter for Kaley Cuoco, who began to discuss her problems with others and seek aid. “I suppose for the first time, I wanted people to understand that things aren’t always as they appear,” she explained. “And not everything is always so perfect.”
