If love is a battlefield, then these couples have been to hell and back. Here are the relationships that fell apart in 2024.
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00:00If love is a battlefield, then these couples have been to hell and back.
00:04Here are the relationships that fell apart in 2024.
00:07Billy Ray Cyrus and his wife, Fire Rose, called it quits in 2024 after just seven months.
00:13The country star and father of Miley Cyrus filed for divorce from Fire Rose in May after
00:17marrying in October 2023, citing irreconcilable differences and inappropriate marital conduct,
00:22according to court documents. In October 2024, Fire Rose told Stellar magazine,
00:27"...I accepted his lunacy as reality."
00:29There were several red flags suggesting that Billy Ray's marriage to Fire Rose would never last.
00:34For one, they had a three-decade age gap,
00:36and Billy Ray's daughter Miley didn't appear to be a fan of the Australian singer either.
00:40She reportedly skipped their wedding and didn't mention the pair in her acceptance speech
00:43at the 2024 Grammy Awards. While Miley later admitted to being at a loss for words on stage,
00:48she doubled down on the snub by conspicuously leaving Billy Ray
00:51and Fire Rose out of an Instagram post following the show,
00:54despite giving shout-outs to basically everybody else in her life.
00:58Travis Barker's son, Landon Barker, and TikTok star Charli D'Amelio,
01:02have gone their separate ways after being together for just over a year.
01:05They'd first confirmed their relationship in July 2022 after being spotted together
01:09leaving Landon's concert in Los Angeles and were photographed holding hands during a night
01:13out in New York several days later. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight,
01:16Charli opened up about their unexpected romance.
01:19It's just very sweet."
01:21But in a statement on his Instagram Stories in February 2024,
01:24Landon confirmed that he and Charli had officially called it quits. He added that
01:28they chose to break up in order to focus more on themselves, and stressed that he and Charli
01:32remain on good terms. The Bachelorette's Rachel Lindsay and Brian Abasolo split in 2024 after
01:38four years of marriage. Abasolo posted a statement on Instagram that read,
01:42"'If you've been following me for a while, you know I don't like to put my personal affairs
01:46on social media and like to keep a safe space for our family. After more than four years of
01:50marriage, Rachel and I have made the difficult decision to part ways and start anew."
01:54According to People magazine, it was Abasolo who filed for divorce from Lindsay,
01:57while citing irreconcilable differences as the cause. He also sought spousal support.
02:02His statement continued,
02:03"'I'm a family man, but sometimes loving yourself and your partner means you must let go.'"
02:07Shortly after news of their split was made public,
02:09Lindsay broke her silence on an episode of her podcast Higher Learning. She said,
02:14"'Just trying to take it day by day.'"
02:16Backstreet Boys' AJ McLean and his wife,
02:19Rachelle Deanna McLean, have split after 11 years of marriage. Following their breakup
02:23announcement in March 2023, the two confirmed their plans to officially end their marriage
02:27in a joint statement posted on Instagram on New Year's Day 2024. Their statement read,
02:32"...while we have hoped for reconciliation, we have decided to officially end our marriage.
02:36Our focus now is moving forward in the healthiest way possible,
02:39with friendship and co-parenting our girls at the forefront of this next chapter."
02:43A source told People magazine that it was Rachelle who had initiated their breakup. They said,
02:47"...there were some trust issues. Close friends don't see them getting back together,
02:50though AJ really thinks they will."
02:53"...my family has saved my life."
02:56Indeed, AJ told People in September 2024 that he hopes to reconcile with Rachelle at some point.
03:00He said,
03:01"...we are the best of friends, and honestly,
03:03we're in the best place I think we've ever been. We love each other,
03:06and that's never going to change."
03:08Real Housewives of Atlanta star Portia Williams shocked fans when she filed for
03:12divorce from her husband, Simon Kwabariya, after 15 months of marriage. Williams and
03:16Kwabariya said their I do's in a lavish traditional Nigerian ceremony,
03:20followed by an American event soon after.
03:22"...what, I'm blessed, what?"
03:24At the time, Williams had said to People magazine,
03:27"...I am ridiculously excited. I am just so ready. I know I'm marrying the love of my life,
03:31and it's just going to solidify our relationship and our family bond."
03:35In court documents obtained by People magazine, Williams stated that their marriage was
03:38"...irretrievably broken."
03:40Though neither Williams nor Kwabariya has yet to reveal the reason for their split,
03:43Kwabariya has suggested that his feelings towards his ex-partner have not changed.
03:47In a since-deleted Instagram post, he wrote,
03:49"...will stop loving my wife when divorce is final."
03:52In February, Ellie Goulding confirmed that she and her husband, Caspar Jopling,
03:56had gone their separate ways after just four years of marriage. Through her Instagram stories,
04:01the singer said that she had been forced to make the statement after she was spotted
04:04kissing her surfing instructor in Costa Rica a few days earlier. She wrote,
04:08"...I feel I have been left with no choice but to let you all know that Caspar and I
04:11privately separated some time ago."
04:13The pair, who share a son, married in August 2019 after over a year of dating. Goulding added,
04:18"...we remain the closest of friends and have been successfully
04:21co-parenting with our son's best interests at heart."
04:24Romeo Beckham and his girlfriend, fellow model Mia Regan, split after dating for almost five
04:29years. Romeo and Mia began their relationship in May 2019, although it's unclear exactly how
04:34and when the two first met. They made their romance red carpet official when they attended
04:38the British Fashion Awards together in November 2021. Three years later, Beckham confirmed the
04:43news of their breakup in a brief statement on Instagram stories. He wrote,
04:46"...Mooch and I have parted ways after five years of love. We still have a lot of love
04:50and respect for each other and still hold a strong friendship and always will."
04:54For her part, Regan also confirmed their breakup in a post on her Instagram stories, saying,
04:58"...this is Ro. We have grown up with each other since we were 16.
05:02Love takes different forms and paths as you mature. We aren't together romantically,
05:06but we do share lots and lots of love for one another."