Actor Todd Bridges and Bettijo B. Hirschi are headed separate methods after three years of marriage.
“After a lot prayer and reflection, my partner and I’ve made the troublesome choice to separate,” Bridges advised The Instances in an announcement Thursday. “This was not a straightforward selection, and it comes with a heavy coronary heart, but additionally with love and gratitude for the life we shared.”
Bridges, 60, and Hirschi met in January 2022 and married 9 months later, after a short engagement. It was a second marriage for each. Hirschi advised Tamron Corridor final 12 months {that a} buddy who wrote a brand new relationship profile for her confirmed it to Bridges as “market analysis.” The buddy then advised Hirschi that he wished to get in contact.
“She’s so much like my mother,” Bridges advised Corridor.
“I thank God for the time we’ve had collectively, the teachings we’ve discovered, and the household we’ve constructed,” Bridges continued. “Even on this season of change, I belief He’s guiding us each towards therapeutic, peace, and new beginnings. I ask for privateness as we navigate this transition and proceed to elevate my former companion up in prayer, wishing them pleasure and success within the chapters forward.”
The couple’s September 2022 wedding ceremony ceremony at Greystone Mansion & Gardens in Beverly Hills was attended by about 70 family and friends, in keeping with Folks. Bridges was beforehand married to Dori Smith from 1998 to 2012.
The wedding introduced collectively each spouses’ kids from their earlier marriages. Hirschi has 4 youthful kids together with her first husband whereas Bridges has two grownup offspring: daughter Bo is from a earlier relationship with Amanda Dashing and he shares son Spencir, 27, together with his first spouse. Spencir Bridges was, like his dad, a toddler actor, with roles within the 2007 film “Daddy Day Camp” and, in 2005, the TV sequence “ER.” His most up-to-date appearing credit had been in 2009, when he had roles on the sequence “iCarly” and the TV film “The Three Presents.”
Todd Bridges is the final surviving unique forged member of the hit sitcom “Diff’lease Strokes,” which ran for eight seasons from 1978 to 1986. Conrad Bain performed Phillip Drummond, the rich father of Kimberly (Dana Plato) who adopted sons Arnold (Gary Coleman) and Willis (Bridges). Housekeeper Edna Garrett, performed by Charlotte Rae, spun off into the sequence “Details of Life.”
Dana Plato, who performed Bain’s daughter Kimberly, died in 1999 from an overdose when she was 34. Bain died of pure causes in January 2013, at age 89, whereas Rae died in August 2018 at 92.
Gary Coleman died in Could 2010 at age 42 after struggling a mind hemorrhage in an unintentional fall at his dwelling in Utah.
TMZ first reported the divorce information Wednesday afternoon.
