- Actors Sam Claflin and Laura Haddock have announced their split after six years of marriage, taking to Instagram to confirm the news.
- The pair, who share two children, say they have nothing but "love, friendship and a deep respect for one another."
The Hunger Games' Sam Claflin and Laura Haddock from Transformers: The Last Knight have confirmed their divorce with a joint statement, announcing they are going their separate ways after six years of marriage.
The couple, who married in 2013, took to Instagram last night [19 August 2019] to inform fans of the news, with Sam writing, "Laura and I have decided to legally separate. We move forward with nothing but love, friendship and a deep respect for one another, whilst we continue to raise our family together. We won't be commenting on this further. Thank you in advance for your support and respecting our privacy at this time. Both of us x"
The pair have two children; a son, Pip, who's 3, and a daughter, Margot, who's 1, and were last photographed together at Milan Fashion Week in September 2018.
Sam and Laura first started dating in 2011 and got married two years later, with the actor telling Yahoo! in 2014 about the rom-com style 'love at first sight' moment he had when he first saw Laura.
"I walked into an audition room, I saw her and I knew," he said at the time. "I’m not kidding for the life of me. She was reading in for a part and it’s my fourth free call. I’ve done previously three auditions with this other girl reading and this girl walked in and I walked out the audition, couldn’t care less if I got the part. I called my agent, I said, 'Mate, I am in love.' He’s like, 'How did the audition go, mate?' I was like, 'No, no, you don’t understand. I have just met the woman I want to marry.'
"Then, that evening, I went to a party in East London and — this story goes on for hours. {Laughing} I went to a party in East London and at 5:00 am, I stayed up all night having fun with my friends, got on the first tube home, the subway doors opened at my stop, she was standing there."
If a fairytale moment like that can't work out, there's no hope for any of us.
