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She said: “It was me who instigated everything and ended the marriage but I also had a lot of things that I had to deal with, personally.
“So it wasn’t just because I fell out of love with him or I wanted to do other things, it was because I was carrying a lot of emotional things from when I was a kid and things I hadn’t dealt with.
“I think that all snowballed into this big. I felt like I was carrying around this tumour around my back that I hadn’t dealt with.”
Karen didn’t open up about what exactly she was going through at the time, but did reveal a bit more to Samantha about what her childhood was like.
Inside Kevin Clifton and Karen Hauers split - verbal attacks, fights and jealousy
Strictly Come Dancing stars Karen Hauer and Kevin Clifton ended their three-year marriage in 2018 after things got really nasty
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The pair tied the knot back in 2015 after meeting on
Burn the Floor, but their marriage came to an end three years later.
Speaking on
The Divorce Club podcast with host Samantha Baines, Karen confessed that it took her a year to let go of Kevin. I would have liked to have fought for it, she said of their relationship. It took me a year after we separated to actually let go of him. Gareth CattermoleGetty Images It took me a long time to cut the umbilical cord that I had connected to him. Because it was connected for such a long time and at a completely different level than my first marriage, because this marriage was what I was always looking for.
I would have liked to have fought for it, she said of their relationship. It took me a year after we separated to actually let go of him. It took me a long time to cut the umbilical cord that I had connected to him. Because it was connected for such a long time and at a completely different level than my first marriage, because this marriage was what I was always looking for.
But the choreographer learned a huge lesson from their split and the attention it garnered from the public made her stronger . SOPA ImagesGetty Images
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