Sutton Foster Files for Divorce from Ted Griffin
Ted Griffin, Sutton Foster’s spouse of almost ten years, has filed for divorce.
According to court documents examined by PEOPLE, the 49-year-old Tony Award-winning Broadway star filed for divorce from her 53-year-old screenwriter husband at the New York County Supreme Court on Tuesday, October 22. The couple has a 7-year-old daughter named Emily.
PEOPLE’s request for comment was not immediately answered by Foster and Griffin’s representatives.
Foster and Griffin tied the knot in Santa Barbara, California, in October 2014, after getting engaged in August 2013. After years of fertility struggles, they later welcomed daughter Emily via adoption in spring 2016.
Back in October 2020, Foster opened up to PEOPLE about sheltering in place with her husband and daughter outside of New York City amid the COVID-19 pandemic, saying it was “the first time that we’ve all been together for this amount of concentrated time without one of us travelling or having to leave for work every day.”
“Especially breakfast and dinner,” the Younger alum shared. “We’re all sitting at the table, and now my daughter will ask everyone, ‘How was your day?’ We all like to sit down and talk, and we’ve made it a really important part of our day that we come together as a family.”
Foster added that the trio is “trying to make the most of this time. ” She also said her daughter was “really thriving” because “we’re all together.”
In a November 2021 essay for PEOPLE about her adoption journey, Foster said she “was always on the fence about whether I even wanted to have children.”
“I always had a strong work ethic, and I had a difficult relationship with my own mother as a child. For me, it was never straightforward. Although my marriage in my 30s didn’t endure, it did give me a glimmer of hope that I would want a family,” she continued. (Christian Borle, another Tony winner, was Foster’s previous spouse.)
In her essay, the Music Man singer said that her relationship with Griffin had changed that.
In an April 2015 interview with Broadway.com, Foster discussed her relationship with Griffin and said he had given her a “perfect” 40th birthday vacation in Turks and Caicos.
“He’s like, the smartest guy I’ve ever known,” she continued, referring to her “very talented” husband’s professional background. He is really intelligent.
Foster claimed that they enjoy watching movies together at the theatre. The actress claimed that while Griffin showed her “classics, like Rear Window,” she also exposed him to other “silly” films,
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