After almost 4 years of marriage, comic, writer, and actress Kathy Griffin has filed for divorce from her husband, Randy Bick. The couple separated on December 22, and Griffin alerted the LA courts on Thursday, reportedly requesting enforcement of their prenuptial settlement.
Bick and Griffin began courting in 2011, the star instructed Folks in 2016. The duo connected at a meals and wine competition, Griffin mentioned, and he or she thought that might be the tip of issues. “As a result of I assumed he was only a man-whore, if you’ll,” she mentioned then.
“Nicely, you recognize, I didn’t assume it might final [because] he’s 18 years youthful than I’m,” Griffin mentioned of Bick, who, per his LinkedIn, was most not too long ago a “Celeb Administration Director” at an organization known as Inappropriate Laughter. He left that function in June 2020, his resume reads.
That profession change got here simply six months after Bick and Griffin married in an at-home ceremony on January 1, 2020. Actress Lily Tomlin was the officiant, saying from the dais that “What was imagined to be a shallow, tooted and booted, one-night-stand, has grown and flourished to one thing way more significant,” CBS reported on the time.
“They stayed collectively, then they couldn’t avoid each other,” Tomlin mentioned.
Nevertheless, the pair had endured a really public parting simply two years earlier than, with Griffin tweeting in 2018, “After 7 years, Randy and I’ve determined to half methods. It’s not acrimonious and I’ll at all times adore him.”
“God assist me, however I’m gonna be one of these individuals who declares a break up,” Griffin wrote on the time. “There, now these jerks at TMZ wont get the story first. Return to your bootlicking, @HarveyLevinTMZ.”
It’s possible a irritating twist of destiny that, following the couple’s reconciliation, TMZ was first to report on the divorce submitting Friday, noting that Griffin, 63, is not going to be required to provide Bick with spousal assist—and that because the pair didn’t have kids, there can be “no points with baby assist both.”
Griffin has not responded to a request for remark as of publication time, however a tweet revealed Friday would possibly say all of it. “Nicely…sh*t,” the Bel Air resident wrote at 10 a.m. California time. “This sucks.”
Then once more, maybe she’s saving her ideas for her upcoming tour, My Life on the PTSD-Record, which kicks off in February. The Grammy and Emmy winner, who was recognized with lung most cancers in 2021, introduced in June that she’s “now most cancers free,” and that docs had been treating her vocal cords in preparation for a return to the stage. “I’m a little bit scratchy at the moment,” she mentioned in an Instagram submit a couple of current surgical procedure. “However I’ll be in fine condition!”