Brandon Hatmaker, ex-husband of progressive Christian influencer Jen Hatmaker, shared online Friday, Sept. 26, that, days after speaking out for the first time about his divorce, he is done talking about it.
“Over the past few days, I’ve taken time on Social Media and Substack to affirm what is true and respond to some of the recent speculation and misinformation,” Hatmaker said, “(specifically the autogenerated tabloid articles like TMZ, US Weekly, etc.) surrounding my very public divorce in 2020. I did so because I believed, and still do, that it would be both hopeful and helpful.”
“But I also know this: living in the past doesn’t heal anyone,” he said. “From this point forward, I won’t be addressing the details of those events any longer. I’ve said what needed to be said, and now it’s time to close that chapter.”
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Jen Hatmaker is a best-selling author and former church leader who has been busy lately promoting her new memoir, “Awake,” which came out on Sept. 23. She and Brandon cofounded Austin New Church in 2008 and had their own show on HGTV in 2014. In the ensuing years, Jen generated controversy among evangelicals for embracing pro-choice, affirming stances.
Jen and Brandon Hatmaker went through a highly public divorce in 2020. Jen’s memoir opens with the story of her overhearing Hatmaker sending a voice message to another woman in the middle of the night.
Hatmaker, who is no longer a church leader either, remained silent about his divorce until Sept. 22, when he published a lengthy post about it on his Substack.
He took responsibility for his affair and his part in the decline of his marriage to Jen but said he wanted to offer “important distinctions” and “perspective” on certain issues that were being misrepresented about his actions.
Among the topics that Hatmaker addressed were that he did try to save his marriage to Jen, he was involved in his children’s lives after the divorce, and his current wife, Tina, was not the woman with whom he had an affair.
In a Sept. 25 Substack post, Hatmaker critiqued “platforms like TMZ, Us Weekly, and even Wikipedia,” which “now rely heavily on AI-generated content to churn out stories at lightning speed.”
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“I’ve said what needed to be said, and now it’s time to close that chapter,” said Brandon Hatmaker.Click to Post
