Firebrand Congresswoman Lauren Boebert filed for divorce from her husband on Tuesday after 18 years of marriage — bizarrely emphasizing in a statement that she has “always been faithful.”
And in an exclusive text message to DailyMail.com, hubby Jayson said, “I’m torn by this, a very sad thing. A terrible moment in my life.
“I love her too much to say anything bad about her. She is the mother of my children and my partner for 20 years. Please let me have some rest.’
Boebert, 36, cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the argument. A hearing is scheduled for May 31 in Mesa County Court in Grand Junction, Colorado.
In her statement, the second congressman said, “It is with a heavy weight on my heart that I have filed for divorce from my husband. I am grateful for our years of marriage together and for our beautiful children, all of whom deserve privacy and love as we go through this process.”
“I’ve always been faithful in my marriage and I’m a strong believer in marriage, which makes this announcement all the more difficult.”
Lauren Boebert, 36, said in a statement on Tuesday that she has filed for divorce from husband Jayson
The couple married in 2005 and share four boys together
The Boeberts have a home in Silt, Colorado. “It is with a heavy weight on my heart that I have filed for divorce from my husband,” she said. “I am grateful for our many years of marriage together”
The couple married in 2005 and share four boys together.
They will soon be grandparents as their eldest son Tyler, 17, is expecting a baby with his girlfriend. She had said the baby would be due in April, but has not made any announcement of a birth.
The couple met when she was 16 and working at a Burger King, she wrote in her book “My American Life.”
She said they “fell in love instantly.”
Four months after we met, Jayson and I were getting married, Boebert wrote, but said they were turned down in Las Vegas because she was too young.
“For every “Karen” reading this, Jayson and I did not break any Colorado laws with our relationship, despite what you may think. This was not a gun wedding.”
Boebert entered Congress in 2021 as a pro-gun Republican on the far right of her party. She soon joined another controversial figure, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who divorced last year.
She squeaked with a narrow victory last November, beating Democrat Adam Frisch by just 546 votes out of more than 327,000 ballots cast.
Before that, she had run a restaurant in Rifle, Colorado called Shooters Grill. where waitresses had guns holstered on their hips and placards plastered, nay, the walls and windows encouraged patrons to carry.
Boebert ran a restaurant called Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado. It closed last summer when the landlord refused to renew her lease
The wait staff at Shooters all wore conspicuously holstered firearms and customers were encouraged to come in and dine with their guns
The restaurant was decorated with plates and plaques celebrating the right to bear arms
The restaurant closed last summer after the landlord refused to renew her lease.
Both Boebert and her husband have a history of run-ins with the law.
In 2004, Jayson pleaded guilty and served time in prison for public indecency and lewd exposure.
He was sentenced to four days in jail followed by two years of probation, but Boebert has repeatedly claimed that her husband never flashed anyone.
She was in a relationship with him at the time and is reported to have been banned from the bowling alley.
Jayson’s case was the first of the couple’s many confrontations with police.
In 2010, Boebert was arrested after a neighbor accused her two pit bulls of attacking her dog, with Boebert pleading guilty to one count of “dog at large” charges and agreeing to pay a $75 fine.
Five years later, she was arrested for disorderly conduct at a country music festival near Grand Junction after police said she attempted to interfere with the arrest of minors caught drinking underage.
Then, in September 2016, Boebert was charged with careless driving and operating an unsafe vehicle after rolling her truck into a ditch.
Jayson Boebert told DailyMail.com, “I am torn apart by this very sad case. A terrible moment in my life. I love her too much to say anything bad about her, she is the mother of my children and my partner for the last 20 years. Please let me have some rest’
“I am grateful for our years of marriage together and for our beautiful children, all of whom deserve privacy and love as we go through this process,” Boebert said.
Both Boebert and her husband have a history of run-ins with the law. Boebert was previously charged with careless driving and operating an unsafe vehicle after driving her truck into a ditch in Garfield County, Colorado, in 2016. She was later arrested and jailed in 2017 (pictured) for failing to appear for her court hearing
In August last year, Jayson got into a fight with a neighbor and reportedly threatened them and destroyed their mailbox.
In a 911 call to the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office, one of Boebert’s neighbors alerted police that “something is about to happen here,” as Jayson reportedly drove into the neighbor’s yard, The Denver Post reported.
“It’s Lauren Boebert’s idiotic husband, Jayson. It’s going through my mailbox right now,’ the sad man said.
‘Stop you jacka**,’ he then shouted. ‘Get out of here. Come on man. What are you doing? What did we actually do wrong?’
Boebert could be squeezed out of Congress next term by a Democrat who has significantly outnumbered her or a Republican who says her Colorado voters are “done” with her “immature” antics.
Last week, she attracted a Republican primary opponent: 65-year-old conservative radio personality Russ Andrews.
First elected in 2020, Boebert, along with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, first made headlines for promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory in online posts.
Both lawmakers have since backed down.
She also drew attention for her open love of guns — she even brandished a gun at a congressional hearing.