Last month, Facinelli shared on Garth’s podcast that the kids were a big part of the reason he stayed in his marriage to her for so long.
“I felt like time was going by, and I didn’t want to wake up and be like 60 years old and be like, ‘Well, did I live this life for all these other people and not know who I was?’” he said. “I think that if we didn’t have kids, I wouldn’t have stayed, ’cause I would have had the freedom to go, ‘OK, I need to be able to figure out who I am.’”
After the two split, Facinelli was briefly engaged to actor Jaimie Alexander, before they parted ways in 2016.
Garth, meanwhile, tied the knot with actor Dave Abrams in 2015. She was previously married to musician Daniel B. Clark from 1994 to 1996.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.