After over 20 years of marriage, "The Talk" co-host Aisha Tyler and Her husband Jeff Tietjens have announced that they were getting divorced.
The couple had been separated since January 2015, but Tietjens, an attorney himself, finally filed the papers earlier this month and cited irreconcilable differences. Court documents note that he is not currently asking for spousal support, but he said in the papers that he reserves the right to ask at a later date.
Tyler and her now ex-husband, Tietjens, were college sweethearts, having met at Dartmouth College and married in 1994. While the former couple's marriage did not work out, Tyler's rep, Lisa Morbete, said that the two would continue to be friends.
Tyler co-stars alongside Sara Gilbert, Julie Chen, Sharon Osbourne and Sheryl Underwood on CBS' "The Talk." The actress has been very outspoken in the past about her desire to conceive a child, as well as her and her former husband's infertility struggles. In an incredibly emotional September 2013 episode of "The Talk," Tyler, while crying, confessed that despite everything she and Tietjens did, a doctor flat out told them that there was not much hope.
"After 40 your chances of getting pregnant are between 2 and 8 percent," the actress said. "In my particular case, they were less than 5 percent. I'm old, in baby years, that's old to be trying to get pregnant."
A year later, Tyler opened up about why she decided to be so open about her struggle to get pregnant.
"I wanted families [and] couples to know that it was a valid choice not to get on this crazy merry-go-round of IVF and tens and tens of thousands of dollars," Tyler explained. "People who do what I do for a living can afford that stuff, but most people can't. They mortgage their homes and they break themselves."
"And by the way," the actress continued, "most of them don't get pregnant. We only focus on the Cinderella stories. We don't focus on all the people that don't do it. And I wanted people to feel - men and women - it's OK to say, 'I love my marriage, I love my life, I choose not to have children.'"
