Love Don’t Live Here Anymore: Taye Diggs & Wife Separate After 10 Years of Marriage

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According to People, actor Taye Diggs and his wife, Idina Menzel have ended their marriage. A rep tells the outlet:

Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs have jointly decided to separate at this time. Their primary focus and concern is for their son. We ask that you respect their privacy during this time.

Earlier this year, Idina (who is also an actress) told PEOPLE that marriage isn’t necessarily as easy as some assume:

We work at it. I’m not going to glamorize it or glorify it – we go through tough times like everybody else, but we love each other very much. We try not to be away from each other for more than two weeks at a time, and we try to find new ways to communicate.

The ‘Best Man Holiday‘ actor has been very vocal about being in an interracial relationship with his Jewish wife.

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SAG Awards 2012

He joked in a 2011 interview with Sway Calloway, that his mother always knew that he’d marry a white woman. He shared that when he first brought Idina home,

My mother said ‘I told you!” [laughs]. She always thought – I hate this, but I’m being honest! [laughs] – she said, ‘I always knew you were gonna marry a white girl!’

There has been no confirmation on what ended their marriage. However, last month, there were unconfirmed rumors that last summer, Taye allegedly cheated wife.

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STAR magazine reported that the divorce had been in the works for quite some time.

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Nia Long, Taye Diggs, Jasmine BRAND, Sanaa Lathan at ‘Best Man Holiday’ Press Junket

The couple, both 42, met as costars in the original production of the Broadway musical Rent in the mid-1990s. They married in 2003 and had a son, Walker, in 2009. To date, neither have made an social media comments or announcement.

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There are 9 comments for this article
  1. mizz ag at 3:00 am

    :( wow

  2. RisingSpivey at 4:20 am

    I want to say so many inappropriate things here about interracial dating. But I won’t… only because it might come up in a google search and ruin my chances for presidency one day lol

    • kim at 7:03 am

      Well,I’m gonna mention the comment he supposedly made about black women being to much.(He did’ t use those words supposedly,but something to that effect).I guess what it comes down to is women are just women.White women have relationships that come to an end,just like black women.

  3. The Mrs at 3:22 pm

    umm he must have liked smooching on the brown sugar again in the best man movie

  4. Nicole at 3:55 pm

    I don’t think that is Sanaa Lathan in that photo.

  5. Cityboy at 8:07 pm

    WHY DO COUPLES BOTHER TO GET MARRIED THESE DAYS?? …ONLY TO BE SEPARATING SOONER ANYWAY!! OR AM I MISSING SOMETHING?? (HMMM…in thoughts…)

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