Eric McCormack and Janet Leigh Holden McCormack’s marriage is coming to an finish. She filed for divorce from the Will & Grace star after 26 years of marriage.
In keeping with court docket paperwork obtained by ET, Janet filed the divorce papers simply at some point earlier than Thanksgiving in Los Angeles County Superior Court docket. Within the court docket paperwork, Janet cites “irreconcilable differences” as the rationale for the cut up. The estranged couple bought married on Aug. 3, 1997. So far as the date of separation, Janet listed “TBD.”
She’s requesting spousal help and for her lawyer charges to be lined. She’s additionally requesting that no help be awarded to Eric, who shares 21-year-old son, Finnigan, with Janet. Janet can be asking for equal division of property as they begin to divvy amongst themselves.
Neither Eric nor Janet have publicly addressed the cut up. In keeping with the New York Publish, the estranged couple was final pictured collectively in March at an Academy Awards viewing celebration.
Eric first met Janet on the set of the TV collection Lonesome Dove. In an April 2020 Instagram put up, the actor shared that “no one on the show knew we’d been dating for months” whereas pictured collectively on the season 1 wrap celebration in December 1994.
“She was the assistant director,” Eric advised The Guardian in 2007. “I was just coming out of a relationship, and not to be trusted. I’d been dating actresses but Janet was different. She wore jeans, drove a pick-up truck … At first she wasn’t too keen. She knew actors are a lot of work: it would be like taking your work home with you. But I managed to convince her. We had a secret affair the first season. I mean, dating crew! Actually, it was much worse for her, because she wasn’t supposed to give any of the actors preferential treatment.”
In that very same story, the actor opened up about parenting.
“I’m torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later,” he stated. “I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble — myself included — as fathers get older. My son was born when I was 38. We’re trying for our second child at the moment and when it comes I’ll be at least 43. It’s that Woody Allen line about Charlie Chaplin having kids at 70: ‘Yes, but he couldn’t pick them up!'”
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