Courtney Stodden is opening up concerning the emotional rollercoaster that unfolded on her wedding ceremony night time — an evening she says ended along with her alone within the bridal suite.
The truth star marked her one-year anniversary with husband Jared Safier on December 3, 2025, by sharing the true story behind the rocky begin to their marriage. And in true Courtney style, she didn’t maintain something again.
“Right here’s the uncooked unfiltered reality: I virtually ran away. On the night time I acquired married, Jared and I had been each emotional, overwhelmed, and much too drunk to be making choices with clear hearts. A misunderstanding was a battle, exterior voices added gasoline, and every part spiraled quicker than both of us meant it to,” she revealed on Instagram.
Within the “chaos of the second,” Courtney says Jared walked out as a result of he thought they wanted area — leaving her to spend their honeymoon night time alone.
“And so I spent our honeymoon night time alone within the bridal suite, wrapped in silence that introduced again each outdated wound from being married at sixteen. The worry. The abandonment. The panic that historical past was repeating itself.”
After all, Courtney’s teen marriage to actor Doug Hutchison — she was 16, he was 51 — launched her into tabloid fame again in 2011. And whereas she admitted the painful reminiscences resurfaced, she in the end selected to not run.
“And I’m grateful we got here again with honesty, and a willingness to rebuild. As a result of I like him. And I do know he loves me too,” she wrote. “We walked into marriage carrying childhood scars, sophisticated household dynamics, and expectations neither of us knew the right way to maintain. We’ve been engaged on rebuilding; rebuilding security, rebuilding connection… all whereas studying who we’re as husband and spouse.”
She added that the 2 are dedicated to doing the work: “We’re studying to speak. Studying to like higher. We’re studying to decide on one another even when it hurts. And we’re nonetheless studying… A LOT! Possibly love isn’t excellent, however sincere.”
Courtney ended her anniversary tribute with a toast to the longer term: “Right here’s to surviving yr one. Right here’s to staying when it will’ve been simpler to run… and a love that we each deserve. 🥹”
The candid submit comes throughout a significant second in Courtney’s profession. She lately turned the topic — and narrator — of the Lifetime biopic I Was a Baby Bride: The Courtney Stodden Story, launched in September 2025. Safier served as a producer on the challenge, which chronicles her controversial marriage to Hutchison.
Courtney and Hutchison finalized their divorce in March 2020. On the time, she wrote, “I’ve felt utterly trapped, manipulated and at instances deserted by adults.”
