Colton Haynes has filed for divorce from his husband, Jeff Leatham, following six months of marriage.
Divorce papers obtained by TMZ cite “irreconcilable differences,” but do not list the separation date.
The divorce comes just days after reports that the couple had separated. Haynes concurrently released an original song, titled “Man it Sucks (Acoustic)”:
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The timing led many to believe Haynes was singing about Leatham, though it was later revealed that the song is about a past relationship.
Haynes took to Twitter to shut down rumors (rumors, we’d argue, that Haynes started himself with the song) that Leatham cheated, posting: “Jeff would never cheat. He’s an amazing man. Please stop being mean to him.”
As well as unfollowing Leatham on Instagram and taking down all photos of the couple from his feed, Haynes deleted the word “husband” from his bio and de-hyphenated his name from Haynes-Leatham.
The divorce comes just weeks after the death of Haynes’ mother, Dana, who was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver and kidney failure.
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Smith David
OMG….Beyonce was right. Pretty hurts. Perfection is a disease.
Kieru
Perhaps more realistically… having freshly opened up about his sexual orientation Colton, like many newly ‘out’ men and women, felt euphoric in his first relationship as an openly gay man. He confused lust for love and got hurt in the process.
It’s a tragic learning experience many newly out men and women experience. Framing it as ‘attention-seeking’ just strikes me as unnecessarily cynical and cold-hearted.
brianlange
I think it’s simple these guys are train wrecks. They will busted for drugs become junkies. Turn tricks just to be able eat. A grand larceny charge, this time he gets jail time about 60 to 90 days. He gets passed around his cell traded your
thisisnotreal
Man some gays are just brutal. For something that they know nothing about and has zero effect on their lives whatsoever they just can’t help opening their mouths between Grindr hookups and saying something scathing about a complete stranger.
Vince
You do realize it’s Colton that wanted the attention. Downright desperate for it with a non stop stream of selfies.
DCguy
Funny, if you are trying to attack “Gays” for being “Brutal” it’s funny how you tried to point out how brutal they are by attacking them with a heavy dose of homophobia. Maybe you can take your hypocrisy and figure out a place to stuff it.
thisisnotreal
Vince just because you have an opinion on someone’s life and CAN express it doesn’t mean you SHOULD, ever heard of just not saying anything? And dcguy I am not homophobic because I don’t have a phobia towards gay people I am gay myself, I just strongly dislike some of the things they say and do. Disliking something or not agreeing with it doesn’t automatically equal irriaruonal fear or hatred of it so try again.
Donston
I would somewhat side with you if Colton didn’t take full advantage of the divorce rumors by releasing such an incendiary song and then acted surprised when people assumed it was about his marriage. I also would be more sympathetic if he didn’t pimp out his relationship and eventual marriage to the media right at the beginning of its conception till the end.
But love is hard and stuff. Hopefully, lessons will be learned and he won’t be so quick to get serious next time and won’t be so quick to sell his relationship to public.
thisisnotreal
Maybe I’m just a bleeding heart then. Colton is a “celebrity” and off the top of my head I can’t think of any celebrity of any level of fame that doesn’t at least try to take advantage of social media and interviews and whatnot in order to heighten their buzz and become more famous, so when it comes to celebs like Kim K or Paris Hilton I’m just indifferent towards them cuz they are doing exactly what is expected of them to be doing. More people talking about you means more fame, which opens more doors for more opportunities to make money. Isn’t that like the whole point of being a celeb in the first place?
Xzamilloh
He’s going through an identity crisis… I got nothing snarky to say. Find yourself, man. There is nothing wrong with unplugging the social media and just being by yourself for a while.
DCguy
“”Divorce papers obtained by TMZ cite “irreconcilable differences,”””
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I’m guessing “Obtained” means that Haynes sent them over to TMZ
Kieru
Or… and this is a crazy thing here… divorce filings are a matter of public interest and as such are accessible through public record searches. Unless Colton and his husband petitioned to have those filings sealed all TMZ had to do was pay the courthouse a fee for a copy of the paperwork.
Which shocker, is how most court paperwork is disseminated.
DCguy
@thisisnotreal
If I’d been posting as much about my life as he had you could expect to. From the completely staged photos presented as spontaneous during the court ship, the endless supply of ducklipped poses on instagram, to the fact that he announced the split JUST in time to release a song about it.
Oh, but PLEASE, keep pretending that these guys somehow don’t like the publicity.
g-sing
exactly!
calpoidog
People! It’s really a pretty simple formula: NEVER marry anyone until you’ve known them at least five years, lived with them for at least one year, traveled together to a country where neither of you speaks the language and as a couple you’ve also successfully picked out a major piece of furniture, artwork or wall coloring.
The number of successful marriages when you’ve only known someone a matter of months must be incredibly small.
DarkZephyr
Five years tho? lol
broadshoulder
So we get to see our first celebrity divorce. I wonder if he knows how much it will cost him?
JK 1984
I thought Jane Lynch was the first celebrity divorce from same sex marriage?
Although tbh I can’t remember if they ended up divorcing.
MacAdvisor
I doubt either party will pay anything in support. They both have jobs, the marriage is of very short duration, the size of the community assets is likely very small. Their aren’t any children They will likely both leave with what they brought.
JK 1984
Marrying someone after only knowing them after a few weeks sounded like a bad idea at the time. But I really wished it had worked out.
I do feel sorry for them both. I remember how intense my first “out” relationship can be and how quickly things move.
Hopefully Colton and Jeff can resolve their divorce amicably and move on to better things/people.
Donston
“Queers” tend to either be obsessed with tying themselves to someone, catching feelings and getting deep too quickly. Or they’re petrified of any real committment and are scared to develop real feelings for the type of person who represents their majority orientation. Some people grow out of those extremes and some don’t. Hopefully, he’ll be in the former and will use more reason and sense in his next relationship and not be so immediately public and media whoring with it.
Even though there are quite of few things he’s done that irks me I do sympathize with him.
g-sing
preach Vince!
Colton is SUCH an attention whore. just like Gus Kenworthy. you all need to open your eyes!
Coup
Look up vapid attention whore, you’ll find his picture in that entry.
Vince
Lol
bushwickfreddy
Could someone pass this one a glass of water please, because his thirst is UNREAL!