On Wednesday, Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, announced that he and his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau were divorcing.
We have decided to separate, Trudeau added, following “many meaningful and difficult conversations” with Sophie.
As always, he added, “we continue to be a close family with a deep love and respect for each other and for everything we have built and will continue to build.”
For the sake of their children’s safety, he requested that their privacy be maintained.
The couple “have signed a legal separation agreement,” the prime minister‘s office stated in a statement on Wednesday.
According to the statement, “They have worked to ensure that all necessary legal and ethical steps with regard to their decision to separate have been taken, and will continue to do so going forward.”
According to the official biography of the Canadian Prime Minister, Trudeau returned to Montreal in 2002 after spending several years as a teacher in Vancouver. It was there that he met Grégoire.
“Justin moved back to Montréal in 2002, when he met Sophie Grégoire. They were united in marriage in 2005, and today they are the proud parents of Hadrien, Ella-Grace, and Xavier.
According to the Liberal Party website for Grégoire Trudeau, he graduated from the University of Montréal with a degree in communications and afterwards worked in sales and advertising before becoming a reporter for television and radio.
Last year, Grégoire Trudeau said on Instagram that he and his wife had “navigated through sunny days, heavy storms, and everything in between and it ain’t over.”
Long-term partnerships are difficult in a variety of ways, she continued. They require ongoing effort, adaptability, sacrifice, devotion, patience, and a whole lot more. There is no perfect relationship since none of us are, but love is only real when it protects, liberates, and develops its recipient.
The two met US President Joe Biden in March and went to King Charles’ coronation in London earlier in May.