Sara Gilbert and Linda Perry’s Divorce Finalized After Five Years
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Dec. 24 2024, Published 12:16 p.m. ET
Sara Gilbert and Linda Perry’s divorce is finally complete.
A new report stated the pair’s split was finalized on December 19, five years after they first filed the paperwork in 2019.
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The stars were legally separated in October 2021, which is also when they agreed to joint legal and physical custody of their 9-year-old son, Rhodes.
Neither party asked for child or spousal support.
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Gilbert, 49, had filed for divorce — listing irreconcilable differences as the cause — in December 2019 after marrying in 2014.
“It’s life, man. Life is happening and you’re witnessing it. You know, this is a moment in life and people will get to witness it and I’m not … I’ve had incredible journey and I’m still on an incredible journey,” Perry, 59, said to a reporter in 2020 of the split.
“That doesn’t mean … things that end doesn’t mean they’re over or they’re bad. It’s just you’re evolving into a different place and that’s kind of how I’m looking at it,” the musician explained.
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The same year they were officially separated, Perry, 59, privately battled b—– cancer.
Fortunately, the cancer was detected early, to which she told People, “I feel so lucky because there’s so many women that don’t get that opportunity.”
Perry only found out while preparing for elective b—– reduction surgery, as the diagnosis came after tissue was sent to the lab post-surgery.
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“My doctor basically said the cancer that I had was the kind that she finds in people where they have six months to maybe two years to live,” the rocker shockingly revealed. “And I would’ve never found it, and I would’ve never done anything about it when I started feeling off, because I would’ve thought it was because of my mom and the stressful situation I was under.”
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