‘Yes, we are separating’: Jen Hamilton releases statement with husband after divorce rumours

Influencer Jen Hamilton has confirmed she is separating from her husband Brian following days of online speculation sparked by her emotional posts and a viral crying video.

In a TikTok posted on Monday June 15 Hamilton addressed the situation directly saying she felt “embarrassed” and “exposed” as media attention around her personal life grew.

“OK, no crying,” she began in the video which she captioned “The ‘statement.’”

“I’m feeling embarrassed and feeling exposed and feeling sad, feeling every single thing you probably possibly feel,” she said.

“My publicists say that I should make a statement ‘when I’m ready.’ There is no being ready. But there’s already been a bunch of articles about it, so I might as well just rip the Band-Aid off and put it out there in the wind.”

Hamilton explained that she and her husband wrote a joint statement together before she added her own comments.

“Yes, we are separating,” the statement read. “This comes with enormous pain for the both of us but also gratitude for the 15 years of shared history, love, and friendship. What we are committed to is loving each other well through this transition and placing the wellbeing of the family we created at the center.”

The statement continued: “We are hoping our paths diverging in physical location will make space and room for mental healing for the other. We still are committed to being a team. We even wrote this together (and without chatgpt). We both want to be very clear. This wasn’t about falling out of love. That’s why this is so devastating. It was about recognizing that sometimes the most loving thing you can do is give someone space to figure out complex things. And that’s exactly what we are doing.”

Hamilton also reflected on her earlier viral video saying she regretted posting it publicly.

“This next part is from me,” she said on Monday. “I am very embarrassed that I put a video of myself crying on the internet and I never should have done it. It was a moment of searing pain. And I just wanted somebody to tell me I was gonna be alright. There is no part of me that thinks that I am famous enough to end up in People magazine or the New York Post for something going on in my life. And that was dumb of me … because that is exactly what happened, and now in the midst of, like, the real-time pain that I feel, I’m having to deal with that part of it all.”

She asked followers to stop speculating about the situation and emphasised that only she and Brian know what happened.

“My next request is that you just be nice, OK?” she said. “He is my bestest friend still. There’s no meanness, there’s no yelling, there’s no animosity between the two of us. I want him to win. I want him to be the very, very best version of himself, one that he’s never even seen before. I feel like sometimes we can hold each other back from truly healing from the stuff we need to heal from.”

Hamilton also noted that while she chose a public career her children did not and asked for privacy for her family.

She ended the video emotionally saying: “I love him more than I ever knew I could love somebody,” adding that she hopes to “meet the version of myself that figured out how to (heal). She’s gonna be really cool.”