Courtney Stodden is opening up about her split from her husband, Doug Hutchison, being pretty straightforward about why they decided to end their marriage.
The 19-year-old Celebrity Big Brother UK star found her independence while shooting the show and being away from him for the first time since they got married.
In the first interview since confirming their separation, Stodden, 19, told E! News, she said the reason for the split was “my age, obviously,” and "I want to be free and embrace my independence and not neglect my youth."
She said of filming the show in the UK while Hutchison was still in California, “I was missing him, but not intimately. I couldn’t neglect my desires and wanting to embrace my independence and my freedom.”
Stodden married the Green Mile star, 53, when she was just 16 years old and she’s now realizing the scope of the controversy at that time, ABC News reports.
“I got that it was unconventional. I didn’t get how weird and strange that came across. When I was 16, I got my marriage license instead of my driver’s license, come on!”
Watch her talk about it below:
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