Sophie Trudeau has opened up about how she got through her “heartbreaking” breakup with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The couple shocked the world when they announced they were divorcing in August 2023 after 18 years of marriage.
Now the former TV star, 49, who has since been linked to an Ottawa pediatric surgeon, has opened up about how she was able to move past their very public split.
She told Britain The Telegraph She recently shared that she had “trained her brain” to “not cling to relationships,” which made “cutting ties” easier.
‘I have trained my brain to deal with uncertainty. I learned to cut ties and not cling too much to life, to others, to relationships,” she explained.
The former eTalk host added that she had done “a lot of self-regulation” since her marriage dissolved, crediting her work as a “yoga and meditation teacher” with helping her do so.
Sophie also told the publication that she and Justin, 52, were “lucky” to be able to have “respectful” and “open communication” with each other.
She noted that many people viewed “marriage as success” and “breakup as failure,” which often left divorcees feeling “guilty,” but she tried to end that stigma.
Sophie Trudeau has opened up about how she got through her “heartbreaking” breakup with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. She is pictured in May
The couple shocked the world when they announced they were divorcing in August 2023 after 18 years of marriage. They will be seen together in 2022
“When we feel this way, we are not only showing emotional immaturity, but we are also leaving a traumatic emotional legacy on children who should not have to bear it,” she said.
The former couple met when they were just young children, as Sophie was classmates with Justin’s younger brother.
Now the former TV star, 49, who has since been linked to an Ottawa pediatric surgeon (seen), has shared some of the methods she used to move past the breakup
In their youth they played together for hours, and she as a child he even shared an innocent kiss once.
While they stopped talking as they got older — both went to college and started their own career paths — the two came back into each other’s lives after coincidentally being assigned to host a gala in 2003.
They married in 2005, but as Justin’s career in politics flourished, it put a strain on their relationship.
Sophie admitted that she initially struggled to adapt to a life in the spotlight, and when he became Prime Minister in 2014 and they were forced to move to the official government compound, she struggled to make their new residence feel like home. make you feel.
“I always remember that when hard times come, we maintain a sense of security in the home on all fronts and that our children, no matter what room we are in, feel that there is actually space to discuss real things.” , she said during an interview with The Sorry Girls.
‘The container is historical, but the contents are human. It’s us. Sometimes people say ‘it’s so unique’ – yes of course – but we’re just a family and we’re just trying to live our lives.”
She recently told The Telegraph that she had ‘trained her brain’ to ‘not cling to relationships’, which made ‘cutting ties’ easier. She and Justin are seen in 2015
The former eTalk host, who recently released a memoir called Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves Loving Each Other (seen), added that she had been doing ‘a lot of self-regulation’
Still, they stuck together through it all, and welcomed three children together during their marriage: Xavier, 17, Ella-Grace, 15, and Hadrien, 10.
But in August 2023, they announced they were splitting after “many difficult and meaningful conversations” about the future of their relationship.
In a joint statement shared on their Instagram accounts, they vowed to “remain a close-knit family with deep love and respect for each other and all they had built.”
At the time, reports emerged claiming that Sophie quickly moved on to an Ottawa-based pediatric surgeon named Dr. Marcos Bettolli.
Sophie, who now teaches yoga and recently released a memoir called Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves Loving Each Other, spoke to The times about their split in April, which said: ‘Something has changed, something has broken.’
However, she insisted that she and Justin had remained close despite the divorce.
“We all still hang out: we love each other, we spend time together. It’s organic: the kids all sleep together one night, which is fine,” she said.
“And I have a little space to myself and sometimes the kids come there, and we’re just so close together that we do it organically. And it feels good, it feels natural. It doesn’t feel forced. It feels heartwarming.
“You know, in some ways it’s boring for some people because we’ve always been honest with each other. We have no secrets. That’s not the dynamic we have.
“And let me be honest: In some ways, I’m very proud of how we—and not how the world thinks about us—are navigating this. When we are together and look at each other, that’s what counts.
“Although we are no longer a couple, I know our shared sense of humor will always help us weather the storms.”
Speaking at a summit earlier this month entitled Bouncing Back from a Broken Heart, Sophie opened up about the ‘pain’ she felt following the ‘heartbreaking’ split.
‘There is still so much love, relationship and closeness in our family. But even though our relationship is changing, that doesn’t mean it won’t hurt,” she told the audience.
‘It hurts so much. Why? Because I had to choose my authenticity over my attachment, and you can call that ‘heartache,’ even though the heart never breaks.”