Controversial radio host Adam Carolla announces divorce from wife of nearly 19 years
Controversial comedian and podcast host Adam Carolla and his wife Lynette are divorcing after nearly 19 years or marriage.
The 56-year-old radio personality revealed the news Friday during his podcast, “The Adam Carolla Show.”
“We’re going to start the show with some sad personal news: Lynette and I are getting divorced,” he said at the top of the episode.
“It’s not something that I wanted to get or to do, I’m a product of divorce, Lynette’s a product of divorce… No one ever signs up to get divorced,” he added.
Carolla said that the two have been separated for “a few months,” but “the kids come first, and they have.”
According to People, the couple tied the knot in September 2002, after dating for about six years. In June 2006, they announced the births of their twins, a boy and a girl.
“They’re doing well, some say too well,” he joked. “I wanted a little devastation, I did not get much devastation.”
Getting more personal about the divorce, Carolla said that, “it’s been a difficult time.”
“We’ve been together for 25 years, we’re very different human beings, we have different sets of philosophies, that’s for sure. It’s not an event, it’s not somebody was cheating, it’s not chronic gambling or COVID, it’s really just two people that were just that different and just had completely different processes and approaches to life and just couldn’t meet in the middle somewhere,” he said.
Last month, the famously unapologetic comedian was a guest on Fox Nation’s “Tucker Carlson Today,” where he slammed “cancel culture,” saying that the phenomenon is killing comedy.
In September, Carolla posted a tone-deaf response on Twitter to a debunked online theory that the COVID-19 death toll had been grossly inflated.
“Turns out the people dying from COVID are old or sick or both,” he wrote. “How many of you p-----s got played? And who’s going to get played the next time.”
His tweet was immediately slammed by fellow celebrity social media users.
“I’m 60 and have asthma,” actress Valerie Bertinelli tweeted. “Thanks for thinking it’s OK that I die.”
“What an ignorant, selfish, cruel, cowardly thing to say,” tweeted former 2020 presidential candidate Joe Walsh. “Thump your chest, tough guy. You sound just like Trump. Hope you’re proud.”
In 2011, offensive comments Carolla made about transgender people enraged the LGBTQ community and led him to issue a halfhearted apology.
“I’m sorry my comments were hurtful,” he told TMZ. “I’m a comedian, not a politician.”
