Martine McCutcheon has reduced the asking price of her marital home as she pushes to sell it amid her divorce from Jack McManus.
The former EastEnders star, 48, revealed in August that her husband Jack had left her after 18 years together, days after she wrote him a heartfelt birthday tribute.
It later emerged that the couple had put up their £1.5 million home in Surrey, where they lived with Rafferty, his nine-year-old son, for sale three months earlier, in May.
However, after seven months and failing to secure a sale, the asking price has been reduced by £250,000, falling from its original listing of £1.5 million in May to £1.25 million.
Martine and Jack, 40, now appear to be on the verge of making a loss after originally purchasing the property for £1.3 million in June 2022.
The decision to reduce the price comes just a week after Martine appeared to attack her ex. in a series of cryptic Instagram posts.
Martine McCutcheon has reduced the asking price of her marital home as she pushes to sell it amid her divorce from Jack McManus.
The couple’s five-bedroom, 3,000 sq ft detached house was put up for sale on May 31 and the asking price was reduced by £250,000, below its original listing of £1.5 million.
Last month, Martine shared a series of quotes about her Stories and captioned one promising to “keep the faith and look forward” following her marital split.
In one specific post, Martine re-shared a quote that read, “Sometimes healing means telling people to fuck off,” with the caption, “Absolutely!”
She then shared a poem that said, “And all this time, you thought you were falling apart, you didn’t realize you were actually recovering.”
Alongside it he wrote: ‘To anyone who needs this, keep the faith. Look forward, not back… and smile… You’ll be fine… Maybe even better than fine.’
Martine broke the news of their split in a statement that read: “After much thought and consideration, Jack has decided that it is best for us to separate after 18 years together and I accept his decision.”
“We are both very blessed and grateful for our beautiful 9-year-old son Rafferty, whose happiness and well-being have always been and will continue to be our number one priority.
“We both, of course, still appreciate and look forward to co-parenting our wonderful boy for the rest of our lives…
“While this decision has evolved over a period of time, we are still finding our new path forward as a family and kindly ask for some privacy at this time… Especially for our little one.”
The decision to reduce the price comes just a week after Martine appeared to attack her ex in a series of cryptic Instagram posts.
In a series of posts shared last month, Martine shared a cryptic poem, along with a caption that said she was “looking forward, not back.”
She continued: “Our love for Rafferty is something that will never waver or change and we obviously want to protect him and help him feel as safe as possible.”
‘Thank you so much in advance for your respect and support during this difficult time… And I continue to send Jack all the love, luck and happiness for his next chapter.
‘Rafferty and I (as always) support you!
‘Thank you all for the love and support, now and always… Martine.xx.’
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline at the time of Martine’s statement, Jack had said: “There is nothing more to add. I won’t say anything more about this.”
The couple married in 2012 on Italy’s picturesque Lake Como, five years after they started dating.
Martine later explained that she had previously felt pressured to live up to other people’s standards and was now much happier “saying no” and being herself.
Speaking on The Showercast podcast, Martine said: “I was always enough, I was always lovable, I didn’t have to be all those things I thought I should be.”
‘I definitely think everyone thinks their version of you is the right version of you and that’s not something that just happens when you’re well-known or in the public eye. It can happen within families.’
Martine revealed in August that her husband Jack had left her after 18 years together, days after she wrote him a heartfelt birthday tribute.
The star went on to explain that she had felt shaped by other people’s expectations of her and that she had previously been labeled “difficult.”
She said: “They can project onto you that you’re the difficult one, or the black sheep of the family, or you’re the star, or you’re the one who holds everything together.”
And I would simply tell myself and everyone I love that you are more than anyone else’s projections of you, any vague labels.
‘That might be his favorite part of you or his favorite version of you, but you are more than one thing.
“You are complex, you are complicated, you are multifaceted and you owe it to yourself to be all of you, I make no apologies.”