LOS ANGELES, USA – Romance novelist Nicholas Sparks, whose bestsellers about ever-lasting love have been spun into a series of popular Hollywood films, is breaking up with his wife of 25 years.
“Cathy and I have separated,” Sparks, who turned 49 on New Year’s Eve, said in a statement released Tuesday through his Los Angeles publicist.
“This is, of course, not a decision we’ve made lightly. We remain close friends with deep respect for each other and love for our children,” he added.
“For our children’s sake, we regard this as a private matter.”
The couple married in 1989, seven years before Sparks found literary fame with his debut novel The Notebook, which went on to become a 2004 movie starring Ryan Gosling and Gena Rowlands.
Other novels by Sparks that reached the silver screen include Message in a Bottle starring Kevin Costner and Robin Wright, and Dear John with Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried. (READ: ‘The Best of Me’ Review)
Sparks, who lives and works in North Carolina, has identified his wife, born Cathy Cote, as a source of inspiration.
“Every morning when I wake up and see my wife – that is the kind of love that I write about in the novels,” he told the New York Daily News in 2013.
The couple has three sons and two daughters. – Rappler.com
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