Sutton Foster has filed for divorce from Ted Griffin, her husband of nearly ten years.
The Tony-winning Broadway star, submitted the divorce papers against her screenwriter husband, 53, in the New York County Supreme Court on Tuesday.
The couple has one child together: a daughter named Emily, who is 7 years old.
Foster and Griffin got married in Santa Barbara, California, in October 2014, following their engagement in August 2013.
After facing years of fertility challenges, they welcomed their daughter Emily through adoption in the spring of 2016.
Foster in the past had praised her estranged husband and spoken about their relationship.
In an interview with Broadway back in April 2015, Foster revealed that he took her to Turks and Caicos for a “perfect” 40th birthday getaway.
Discussing her “very talented” husband’s career, she added, “He’s like, the smartest guy I’ve ever known. He’s incredibly smart.”
Foster said they love to go to theater and watch movies together. And while Griffin showed her “classics, like Rear Window,” the actress said she introduced him to more “silly” movies.
“I’m trying to bring his intelligence a little bit down,” she joked.
In a November 2021 essay for PEOPLE discussing her adoption journey, Foster shared that she “was always on the fence about whether I even wanted to have children.”
“I was always very career-driven, and I had such a tricky relationship growing up with my own mom … It was never clear cut for me. I married in my 30s; it didn’t last, but one thing it did give me was this little inkling that I wanted to maybe have a family,” she added. (Foster was previously married to fellow Tony winner Christian Borle.)
However, her relationship with Griffin changed that, Foster mentioned in her essay.
“When I met my husband, it was the first time that I finally went, ‘Oh, I get it. I understand why people have families,'” she wrote.
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