Kevin Costner’s Estranged Wife Christine Says She Isn’t The Reason He Quit ‘Yellowstone’

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Nearly 2 months aft quality that Kevin Costner, 68, and Christine Baumgartner, 49, are divorcing, caller docs obtained by The Daily Mail on Jun. 22 uncover that the decorator claims she “did not pressure” the 68-year-old to exit Yellowstone. “I person avoided being nationalist astir the reasons for our divorce,” Christine reportedly wrote successful the documents. “I person done this to support our family’s privacy. I did not unit Kevin to permission the Yellowstone show.”

Christine Baumgartner denies that she asked her ex, Kevin Costner, to permission ‘Yellowstone.’ (David Fisher/Shutterstock)

Later, the 49-year-old claimed that Kevin is attempting to “pressure” her to determination retired of his properties, which helium claimed she is refusing to bash so connected Jun. 13. “Kevin’s nationalist attacks connected maine are harmful for our family. I judge they are meant to unit maine to determination retired without a impermanent kid enactment statement successful place,” she added. Her latest remarks travel 1 time after PEOPLE obtained documents that alleged that Christine is asking for $250K monthly successful kid support. The erstwhile lovebirds stock three children: Cayden, 16, Hayes, 14, and Grace, 13.

Kevin’s ex past went connected to callback the communicative of however they met and fell successful emotion successful bid to solidify her reasoning for requesting that magnitude of child support. “I met Kevin connected the play people astatine the Alisal Ranch (an exclusive ‘dude’ ranch successful Solvang, California) erstwhile I was eighteen years old,” the blonde quality continued, per the outlet. “We played our archetypal crippled of play six years aboriginal and started dating soon thereafter. Kevin was handsome, charming and a movie star.” Christine made definite to enactment however overmuch of a lavish manner they lived. “We traveled the satellite successful backstage planes, stayed successful luxurious hotels and backstage homes,” she added.

Kevin Costner stars successful the series, ‘Yellowstone’. (Everett Collection)

The Dancing with Wolves star’s erstwhile starring woman past claimed that she was ever supportive of Kevin’s aspirations successful life. “During our marriage, I encouraged Kevin to deterioration galore hats and unrecorded his dreams, adjacent if that meant spending clip distant from our family,” she went connected to write. “I encouraged him to reconnect with his erstwhile bandmates from assemblage and to commencement a caller band. He became a singer/songwriter and toured for weeks astatine a clip successful galore countries. He became an capitalist successful respective companies, immoderate of which were done my connections.”

Christine past noted that “despite each of Kevin’s commitments” she ever prioritized him and their children’s clip together. “Despite each of Kevin’s commitments, I made definite to ever support him and the children connected arsenic overmuch arsenic possible,” the parent continued. “I ne'er questioned the clip oregon committedness it took for him to bash what helium loved.” The latest study connected their messy split besides comes 1 time aft documents obtained by PEOPLE on Jun. 21, revealed that Christine besides alleged that Kevin told their kids astir the divided via a Zoom call.

Kevin Costner and Christine stock 3 kids. (Jim Ruymen/UPI/Shutterstock)

“After a 24-year relationship, from his edifice country successful Las Vegas, Kevin told our 3 children that we were getting divorced implicit a 10-minute Zoom telephone without maine present,” his ex allegedly claimed. More so, Christine claimed that Kevin was acceptable to instrumentality location successful a fewer days, starring to her questioning of his motive to archer them virtually. “I americium inactive confused by his information to bash this via a precise abbreviated Zoom session, particularly since helium was readying connected being location 5 days later,” she went connected successful the docs, per PEOPLE.

“He besides could person easy travel location from Las Vegas to person the speech successful person,” Christine concluded. Kevin and his ex got joined successful 2004 and would person celebrated their 20th wedding day adjacent year. He is besides a begetter to 4 different children: Annie, 39, Lily, 36, Joe, 35 and Liam, 27, from 3 anterior relationships.

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