Courtney Thorne-Smith Files For Divorce From Her Husband

Courtney Thorne-Smith has filed for divorcefrom her husband, Roger Fishman.

The estranged couple has been married for over 18 years and has seemingly been going by way of a tough patch of their relationship, as indicated by their date of separation.

Courtney Thorne-Smith has all the time been open about her love life and beforehand weighed in on working with and courting her “good-looking” male co-stars, together with Andrew Shue.

In response to TMZ, the “Melrose Place” star made the divorce submitting and not using a lawyer earlier this week, citing “irreconcilable variations.”

It seems that their marriage has been over for fairly a while now, as her submitting comes almost 4 years after she says they separated. Thorne-Smith listed their date of separation as September 1, 2021, implying that they’ve each been residing separate lives since.

The 57-year-old actress and Fishman tied the knot on New Yr’s Day in 2007 and welcomed their solely little one, son Jacob Emerson Fishman, roughly a 12 months later.

With Jacob turning 18 subsequent 12 months, the estranged couple will quickly come out of co-parenting a minor. In response to the information outlet, Thorne-Smith is in search of joint authorized and bodily custody of their son.

The submitting signifies that she has additionally requested the courtroom to terminate its skill to award spousal assist to both herself or Fishman.

Thorne-Smith’s divorce from Fishman makes it her second marriage to have fallen aside, as she beforehand married geneticist Andrew Conrad in 2000 earlier than splitting from him in 2001.

Aside from Conrad, she additionally dated a number of well-known names, together with her “Melrose Place” co-star Andrew Shue again within the ’90s.

In a earlier chat with People Magazine, she remembered being “charmed” by Shue within the pilot of the present.

“I did not bear in mind a lot of the pilot,” Thorne-Smith admitted. “I did bear in mind taking pictures with Andrew for the primary time. The scene that I do not forget that we talked about that was a lot enjoyable was him dancing. When he is dancing — you possibly can truly see it in my face — how charmed I’m.”

She continued, “I used to be being fully charmed by Andrew in that second. It was so lovable. So I simply bear in mind him and him coming in with this candy, candy power and the way a lot enjoyable it was to do this with him.”

Issues finally went bitter between Thorne-Smith and Shue, main her to position skilled boundaries for them to observe on “Melrose Place.”

Throughout an August 2024 episode of the “Nonetheless The Place” podcast, she recalled filming the present with Shue after their breakup, saying that the expertise was “shockingly not bizarre,” whereas Shue agreed, however added “There was somewhat little bit of time the place it was robust,” per Individuals Journal.

Despite the fact that they stopped courting in actual life, their characters, Allison Parker and Billy Campbell, started courting on the present, and Thorne-Smith needed to put up some restrictions on how they’d proceed with their work.

“Do you bear in mind me having to speak with you as a result of the characters have been nonetheless courting and also you and I weren’t courting?” she recalled. “So we would been damaged up for 2 months, after which we needed to kiss. You bear in mind me saying, ‘Okay, now we’re professionals, no tongue?'”

“As a result of we have been courting earlier than we have been courting on the present, then we have been courting on the present after we broke up in actual life,” she continued. “However you and I segued into friendship very well. I do not bear in mind numerous rigidity.”

Regardless of their strained relationship, Thorne-Smith and Shue continued supporting one another because the actor corroborated her sentiments.

“Yeah, our relationship, we helped carry one another by way of a really intense time,” he defined. “The present bought numerous consideration. I do know you had already been pretty well-known, however we have been coping with numerous, we’ll name it, Fox superstar craziness.”