Sarah Roberts announced her divorce from her husband of five years, James Stewart. in an emotional tell-all interview earlier this month, but a source revealed there’s more to the story.
Breaking the news in an interview for a shock magazine, the At home and away Star, 39, said she and James, 48, simply “drifted apart.”
A friend of the actress allegedly claimed now to love that the couple split “bruised and hurt” after “complex” issues arose.
“James has faced personal problems similar to those he encountered when he was with his ex-partner Jess Marais,” the source allegedly said.
Jess and James share daughter Scout, 12, and were engaged for five years until their split in 2015.
Sarah Roberts announced her divorce from her husband of five years, James Stewart, in an emotional tell-all interview earlier this month, but a source revealed there’s more to the story.
According to the source, Sarah tried to make things work with James ‘for the sake of Scout’, who fell in love with the actress.
“Their relationship problems were too complex and in the end, love died and both of them, bruised and hurt, decided to go their separate ways,” the source added.
“Sarah has always had big dreams of wanting to venture abroad and take her career to the US and James wasn’t a fan – his first priority is Scout.”
A friend of the actress reportedly told Now To Love that the couple separated “bruised and hurt” after “complex” problems arose.
Sarah announced her divorce from James after five years of marriage during an emotional interview with Stellar magazine.
The soap star and DJ told the publication: ‘I just want to say I’m divorced.
“Sometimes people grow apart and that’s okay… I got to a point where I realized I couldn’t grow the way I wanted to within this particular relationship.”
According to the source, Sarah tried to make things work with James ‘for the sake of Scout’, who fell in love with the actress.
Sarah and James married in 2019 after getting engaged in November 2018, when the TV heartthrob proposed to her at the restaurant where they had their first date a year earlier.
Rumors about their split have circulated in recent years after James was absent from the premiere of Sarah Wog’s film Boys Forever in Melbourne in October 2022.
As reported by The Daily Telegraph“He was nowhere to be seen on the red carpet” and apparently no longer followed his wife’s Instagram account.
At the time, Sarah’s agent denied that they had broken up with the couple and later put the rumors to rest when they attended the AACTA Awards in December of that year.