Sophie Trudeau has opened up about how she got over her “heartbreaking” split from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The couple shocked the world when they announced they would divorce in August 2023 after 18 years of marriage.
Now, the former TV star, 49, who has since been linked to an Ottawa-based pediatric surgeon, has shared how she got over her very public breakup.
She told the UK The telegraph recently that he had “trained his 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,’ he explained.
The former eTalk host added that she had done “a lot of self-regulation” since her marriage dissolved, and credited her work as a “yoga and meditation teacher” with helping her.
Sophie also told the publication that she and Justin, 52, were “lucky” to be able to have “open and respectful communication” with each other.
She noted that many people viewed “marriage as a success” and “separation as a failure,” which often made divorcees feel “guilty,” but she worked to end that stigma.
Sophie Trudeau has opened up about how she got over her “heartbreaking” split from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. She is pictured in May.
The couple shocked the world when they announced they would divorce in August 2023 after 18 years of marriage. They are seen together in 2022.
“When we feel this way, we not only show emotional immaturity, but we leave a traumatic emotional legacy for children who should not have to use this,” she said.
The former couple met when they were just children, since Sophie was a classmate of Justin’s younger brother.
Now the former TV star, 49, who has since been linked to an Ottawa-based pediatric surgeon (pictured), has shared some of the methods she has used to get over the breakup.
They spent hours playing together in their youth, and They even shared an innocent kiss once when they were kids.
While they stopped speaking as they grew older (they both went to college and embarked on their own professional careers), the two returned to each other’s lives after they were coincidentally assigned to co-host a gala in 2003.
They married in 2005, but as Justin’s political career blossomed, their relationship became strained.
Sophie admitted that she initially had difficulty adjusting to a life in the spotlight, and when he became Prime Minister in 2014 and they were forced to move onto official government grounds, she struggled to make her new abode comfortable. felt at home.
“I always remember that when difficult times come we maintain a sense of security in the house from all fronts and that our children, in whatever room we are in, feel that there is really space to discuss real things,” he said during a conference. interview with The Sad Girls.
‘The container is historical, but the content is human. It’s us. Sometimes when people say ‘it’s so unique’, yes, of course, but we’re just a family and we’re just trying to live our lives.’
He recently told The Telegraph that he had “trained his brain” to “not cling to relationships”, which made “cutting ties” easier. She and Justin are seen in 2015.
The former eTalk host, who recently published a memoir called Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves Loving Each Other (view), added that she had done “a lot of self-regulation.”
Still, they stayed close 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 separating 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 united family with deep love and respect for each other and for all they had built.”
At the time, reports emerged claiming that Sophie quickly went on to work with an Ottawa-based pediatric surgeon named Dr. Marcos Bettolli.
Sophie, who now teaches yoga and recently published a memoir titled Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves Loving Each Other, spoke with The times about their split in April, saying, “Something changed, something broke.”
However, she insisted that she and Justin had remained close despite the split.
‘We’re all still together: we love each other, we spend time together. “It’s organic, you know, that the kids all sleep together one night, it’s fine,” he said.
‘And I have a little space to myself and sometimes the kids come there, and we’re so close to each other that we do it organically. And it feels good, it feels natural. It doesn’t feel forced. It feels comforting.
‘You know, in some ways it’s boring for some people because we’ve always been honest with each other. We don’t keep secrets. That’s not the dynamic we have.
‘And let me be honest: in some ways I’m very proud of how we, not how the world thinks of us, how we navigate this. When we are together and we look at each other, that’s what counts.
“Although we are no longer a couple, I know that our shared sense of humor will always help us weather the storms.”
Earlier this month, when Sophie spoke at a summit titled Rebounding from a Broken Heart, she opened up about the “pain” she was feeling after the “heartbreaking” split.
‘There is still a lot of love, relationship and closeness in our family. But even though our relationship is transforming, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt,” he told the audience.
‘It hurts a lot. Because? Because I had to choose my authenticity over my attachment, and that can be called “heartbreak”, although the heart is never broken.’