Elizabeth Bice and Jamie Thompson. Courtesy of Jamie Thompson/Instagram
Two months soon after saying their separation, Married at First Sight alums Jamie Thompson and Elizabeth Bice have officially split. Thompson filed for divorce last thirty day period.
“After months of deliberation with Beth, we ended up just unable to discover popular ground,” the 39-yr-old shared by means of Instagram on Friday, June 30. “I experienced truly hoped to take care of this, but it feels like we have reached the issue of no return. So, I manufactured the conclusion to go ahead and file for divorce for the sake of my very own psychological health and fitness and wellbeing. It was a single of the toughest matters I have experienced to do in a pretty long time.”
The duo married in 2019 on the ninth period of MAFS, expressing “I do” just moments after they met at the altar on the Life span actuality display. In spite of many blowout arguments, Thompson and Bice determined to stay together at the close of filming. They relocated many occasions collectively, setting up their marriage in North Carolina right before transferring to San Francisco and later on Colorado.
Thompson extra in his June 30 announcement, “It saddens me a lot to be at this position. I was in no way certain if I would get married. But, I confident didn’t want to get divorced either (even if it was an arranged marriage courtesy of Hollywood). Thank you so substantially to Everybody that has reached out to me and demonstrated me love and help. I am certainly grateful for you all.”
While Thompson explained he had “really fascinating lifetime improvements coming,” Bice has remained tranquil. After her estranged spouse introduced their separation in April, Bice mostly prevented speaking about their partnership. In a June 13 online video, she instructed admirers that she just was not prepared to open up up.
“Everyone would like me to talk about my separation right now … I’m not upset my marriage is in the community eye — but come to locate out I’m a true human and I have these real thoughts,” she said by using Instagram. “And I’m just not ready to converse about some factors in community nonetheless. There is a lot of thoughts that come with getting out of a extended-time period relationship, and when that time comes I will chat about people. But I can’t even kind sentences correct now. I simply cannot even put my thoughts jointly. I continue to cry in the middle of the evening ideal now men, Okay?”
Jamie Thompson and Elizabeth Bice. Courtesy of Jamie Thompson/Instagram
Bice questioned viewers for “a tiny little bit of time” right before she tackled her romantic relationship all over again.
Although his estranged spouse has not been ready to open up up, Thompson has been candid about their break up. In an April Instagram Story, the tech guru answered inquiries about the separation and disclosed Bice walked out on him just after a good deal of fighting.
“At first it was not [a mutual separation]. Beth was truly the very first a person to go away,” Thompson stated at the time. “The battling experienced gotten really poor — I’m not heading to lie — and I explained a great deal of things that I seriously should not have claimed. I claimed them out of anger and aggravation. But I also haven’t felt like I have experienced any reciprocation back again of how to correct this and how to move ahead, so she’s been long gone for four weeks. I imagine at this stage it’s improved for me to emphasis on myself and trying to turn into a far better model of myself, actually.”
The now-estranged pair celebrated their fourth wedding ceremony anniversary in March.
