Nancy Chemtob is featured in a Peoples Magazine article on Celebrity Divorce Lawyers Explain Why There Have Been So Many A-List Splits: 'It Almost Seems Contagious'
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The pandemic was a major factor Brett Ward blames a lot of it on the pandemic. “What I think is happening is that during Covid, a lot of relationships that may have ended during that two-year period couldn’t because a lot of people were staying together out of necessity, out of needing to be protected, and the court system not being available to them,” he says.
“So what’s happening is that people are coming out of that, going back to work, going back to their regular lives, and now they have an out. I think there’s basically four years of divorce happening in two years.”
Chemtob agrees that the pandemic played a role in the rise of divorces, but she sees it more as a cause.
“My husband is the nicest man in the world, but during the pandemic even I was looking at him a little sideways,” she says with a laugh. “But I think Covid was the impetus for a lot of people reevaluating their lives, their finances, their longevity,” she says. “I think people just are at the point in their lives where they’re like, if I’m not happy, I’m out. If this person is not right for me any longer, then why keep trying? Why bother with therapy? Why all the hard lifting? People are realizing they can be on their own and still be happy.”
The pandemic was a major factor Brett Ward blames a lot of it on the pandemic. “What I think is happening is that during Covid, a lot of relationships that may have ended during that two-year period couldn’t because a lot of people were staying together out of necessity, out of needing to be protected, and the court system not being available to them,” he says.
“So what’s happening is that people are coming out of that, going back to work, going back to their regular lives, and now they have an out. I think there’s basically four years of divorce happening in two years.”
Chemtob agrees that the pandemic played a role in the rise of divorces, but she sees it more as a cause.
“My husband is the nicest man in the world, but during the pandemic even I was looking at him a little sideways,” she says with a laugh. “But I think Covid was the impetus for a lot of people reevaluating their lives, their finances, their longevity,” she says. “I think people just are at the point in their lives where they’re like, if I’m not happy, I’m out. If this person is not right for me any longer, then why keep trying? Why bother with therapy? Why all the hard lifting? People are realizing they can be on their own and still be happy.”
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