Love conquers all? Not a lot. Meghan King and Jim Edmonds confronted dishonest allegations, fertility struggles and Bravo cameras earlier than their marriage fell aside in 2019.
The previous Real Housewives of Orange County couple tied the knot in 2014. Edmonds, a retired baseball participant, had been married twice beforehand. He shared two daughters, Hayley and Lauren, along with his first wife, LeAnn Horton. Years after their cut up, Horton misplaced her battle with most cancers in 2015.
In 2008, Edmonds married his second spouse, Allison Jayne Raski. They share a son named Landon and a daughter named Sutton. Their divorce was finalized after six years of marriage, months earlier than Edmonds and King stated “I do” on October 24, 2014.
Shortly after their nuptials, King, who’s 14 years youthful than Emonds, joined the solid of RHOC. Followers watched the twosome undergo IVF to welcome their daughter, Aspen, and sometimes noticed Edmonds begging King to maintain him out of the problems with the opposite ladies.
After discovering she was pregnant with twins, King left RHOC after three causes, however the drama didn’t cease for the couple. In June 2019, the previous St. Louis Cardinals star was accused of being unfaithful to his spouse. The accusations, which Edmonds denied completely to Us Weekly, included the athlete allegedly sending images of his penis to a different girl and a video of himself masturbating on the identical day that King gave birth to their twins, Hayes and Hart.
“Regrettably, I had a lapse in judgment. I engaged in an inappropriate dialog with this individual,” Edmonds advised Us after the information broke. “At no time was there any sort of relationship or bodily contact. Completely none. That is somebody making an attempt to revenue from my title. I’m conscious she has accomplished this to others up to now.”
“Clearly, I made a really poor choice to reveal myself and my household to this kind of individual,” he continued. “For this, I’m really sorry and sought forgiveness from my spouse. “I’m outraged over the intent to wreck my household and intend to take authorized motion. We had been by no means having any issues in our marriage. My lawyer is in possession of paperwork whereby this individual has admitted fabricating massive parts of her ‘story.’ … I by no means had any type of a bodily relationship outdoors of my marriage together with her or anybody else.”
4 months later, Us broke the information that King and Edmonds had split after five years of marriage. She accused him of “having an affair” with their 22-year-old nanny, however he denied the allegations.
Scroll by to relive the highs and lows of the estranged couple’s relationship:
