Christine McGuinness has revealed that she is struggling to pay off her huge divorce bill three years on from her split from husband Paddy McGuinness.
The model, 37, split from her ex-husband after 11 years of marriage.
The pair announced their split in 2022 and reportedly settled their divorce in October while remaining friends and living together to co-parent their children, Leo and Penelope, 10, and Felicity, seven
In a new interview, the star admitted that the divorce has been expensive, but she’s determined to be able to say: ‘I paid for my own divorce.’
During an appearance on The Shizzio Show podcast, Christine explained: ‘There was times where it was fine and really civil, and we were agreeing on what we wanted and what we were going, then there was times where it felt like we were starting all the way back at the beginning.
‘It’s the biggest bill I have ever paid in my life, and I will say that I paid for my own divorce, nobody else…’
She went on to explain that she and her ex agree that they would do things very differently now, as they both ended up spending huge amounts on divorce lawyers.
‘I think people assume that if you’re going through a divorce with someone who earns a hell of a lot of money, your legal fees will be covered, or they will cover the costs or something, but it doesn’t work like that.
‘I think both of us now, if we could sit down and do it again, yeah, we’d do it completely differently, because we both spent a hell of a lot of money on divorce lawyers.
‘Me personally, £300,000 out of my own money that I didn’t even have.’
She then added: ‘I probably wouldn’t have gone down that route. I got someone to represent me that was equal to who was representing him.
‘I didn’t have £300,000 to pay for a divorce! I’m still paying for it.’
In the interview, the star added that she doesn’t think she will ever publicly reveal why she and Paddy chose to split.
‘I’ve never spoken about the reasons for our divorce, and I don’t know if I ever will. It was a difficult time. It wasn’t something that, you know, I just decided to do overnight, or that we chose to do.
‘We tried, and, yeah, there just, unfortunately, there was no repairing it, you know?
‘I’ll always, always love him as the father of the children, and I still live at home with him, which says a lot. We separated three years ago, and we are completely divorced, and we live in separate parts of the house, but we share a family home.’
Although Christine mentioned that the couple still shares a family home, it has recently been reported that Paddy has put their £ 6.5 million property up for sale.
The home boasts seven-bedrooms, six en-suite bathrooms, a huge array of commodities including its own gym, an orangery, and a kitchen diner.
Sources told MailOnline that the property has been put on sale for a huge amount deliberately so that it won’t sell.
‘It is so overpriced, Paddy doesn’t want to sell which seems like another tactic by him.
‘The house is on for two thirds more than what they paid for it, it will never sell. It all feels a bit like Paddy wanting to control the situation and keep Christine living in the house with him for longer.’
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