Channing Tatum is sharing insight into his difficult divorce from Jenna Dewan.
Nearly a year after the Step Up costars’ divorce was finalized, the actor—who coparents 12-year-old daughter Everly Tatum with Jenna—revealed where their relationship stands today.
“Jenna and I are good now, but it was a painful break to have that fall apart, especially being so young,” Channing, referencing their 2018 split, told Variety in an interview published Sept. 2. “We tried to keep it together, tried for a year and a half.”
And while the 21 Jump Street actor—who was engaged to Zoë Kravitz for a year before the pair called it off last October—stopped himself from digging further into the details, he did candidly note the negative aspect of coparenting.
“It’s in the past,” he said of the former couple’s split. “But it’s really tough not to have your daughter half the time. I wish I could just have her all the time.”
Channing isn’t the only one to get real about his former relationship. Jenna—who shares son Callum, 5, and daughter Rhiannon, 15 months, with fiancé Steve Kazee—also spoke out about the impact of their public divorce earlier this year.
“In 2024, especially, I learned a lot about myself, my resilience, and my voice,” Jenna wrote in an essay for InStyle published Jan. 22. “I learned to let go of over-accommodating in my relationships and to sit with uncomfortability. What it really means to trust.”
Similarly to Channing, the Rookie star expressed that their 12-year marriage was beyond repair.
“Sometimes things break because you don’t fit in that vessel anymore,” she added, “and that’s okay.”
And Jenna has also shared that coparenting is a necessary challenge.
“You shift and evolve and you adapt to how life is presenting itself to you,” she explained to People last June. “That includes getting the new normal of a blended family.”
For a deeper look into Channing and Jenna’s separation, keep reading…
While Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan were declared legally separated in 2019 after eight years of marriage, the Step Up costars remain in dispute over financial matters. They are parents to daughter Everly, born May 31, 2013.
In April 2024, Dewan filed documents requesting that she and Tatum "testify regarding all issues related to the parties’ marriage including business and financial activities."
She also submitted a preliminary exhibit list that requests personal and corporate tax returns and other financial documents, including those regarding profits from the Magic Mike franchise.
The Rookie actress alleges in the case that they acquired the Magic Mike intellectual property together. She accuses Tatum of putting its earnings into "an irrevocable trust" and transferred licensing rights to a third party without telling her, People reported, citing court documents.
Tatum disputed her claim in his own filing, obtained by E! News.
"The Magic Mike intellectual property was created during marriage and various entities that relate to the intellectual property were created during marriage and after separation," the documents state. "[Tatum] has expended extensive efforts since separation towards the enhancement of the Magic Mike intellectual property and related entities, which [he] contends give rise to his separate property interest therein."
The court, his attorney notes in the filing, "will need to allocate the community interest and [Tatum's] separate property interest in the intellectual property and related entities in consideration of [his] post-separation efforts."
Dewan included in her preliminary witness list several people who worked on the Magic Mike trilogy with Tatum, including director Steven Soderbergh and producers Nick Wechsler and Peter Kiernan.
In his own preliminary witness list, filed in court one day after Dewan submitted her documents and also obtained by E! News, Tatum included his ex-wife's fiancé Steve Kazee.
After Dewan accused her ex of hiding part of his earnings, Tatum—who is engaged to Zoë Kravitz—filed new documents May 2024 claiming her accusations are false.
"I have never denied Petitioner her share of any community assets or income," he said. "I have always agreed for Petitioner to have an interest in the Magic Mike intellectual property and related entities."
He continued, "During our marriage, Petitioner had equal access to our business managers and financial records. We communicated about our work and various projects on a regular basis. Since our separation, Petitioner has had complete access to all our financial records for all activities during our marriage and since separation."
The documents also argue that Jenna's petition are intended to further hold up their divorce.
"It is designed to delay the processing of the case and increase the expense of litigation and will not, in any way, promote 'early resolution by settlement,'" the documents argue, "in a case where five separate mediation sessions have resulted in Petitioner's simply ignoring a tendered proposed judgment for months."
Tatum and Dewan finalized their divorce in September 2024 after a six-year long battle.
Both parties mutually agreed to waive spousal support and also agreed that should they need to work out any future disagreements over custody regarding daughter Everly, they would do so privately with a judge.
Since reaching an agreement, the couple avoided another trial that was set for December 2024.