Celebrity Divorce Is No Less Painful Because It's Public

It seems like every day the news is full of stories of yet another celebrity divorce. Some of what the public hears about is a sort of serial matrimony. It's like Tarzan swinging from vine to vine the way some of these young celebrity couples seem to swing from wedding to wedding.

But a youthful judgment deficit and an excess of hormones doesn't explain it all. It doesn't explain the recent announcement that Kelsey Grammer in his fifth decade and his wife of thirteen years are heading for divorce court. George Lopez at almost fifty and his wife Ann can hardly attribute their failing marriage to youth and inexperience. The same can be said for Cameron Crowe and Nancy Wilson after nearly a quarter of a century.

The reasons the marriages of famous people break up aren't that different from the reasons ordinary marriages break up. You would think people with the huge incomes many celebrities make would never have to fight about not having enough money. But many celebrities discover there is never enough no matter how much they have.

In an ordinary family people disappoint and fail and betray each other on a pretty regular basis. Things that could lead to divorce often don't because the partners decide to work it out. But an incident that can be managed privately becomes uncontrollable when exposed to the magnifying glass of public scrutiny.

People new to fame are often shocked at the toll it takes on their marriages. One of the thirty-three miners recently rescued from a mine cave-in is already getting a bitter taste of the downside of celebrity. How he and the others will cope in the days ahead remains to be seen.

However one of the thirty-three found his marriage threatened even before he reached the surface. It could not have been a good feeling when his wife discovered that her husband had a mistress. How many times worse must it have felt when she made the discovery in front of the entire world on live television.

Public humiliation is probably the hardest thing in the world to forgive. It compounds any other hurt or slight or betrayal. As long as the rest of the world is reminding you that you have been hurt how can you forgive and forget?

The divorce rate among celebrities is nothing new. Even the silent movie stars like Mary Pickford and Pearl White and Charlie Chaplin had serial marriages. Fans recall that Lauren Bacall faithfully stayed married to Humphrey Bogart until he died. But she was his fourth wife and their marriage which lasted twelve years didn't set any endurance records.


All the ingredients that contribute to ordinary divorces are available to celebrity couples in abundance. The stress of always having to look and act perfect while working long hours makes a chemical vacation look very desirable. A career in show biz offers attractive people opportunities to be tempted by other attractive people. Domestic difficulties that could ordinarily be managed explode when an unhappy spouse becomes a drunk driver. It a recipe for public humiliation and celebrity divorce.
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