“That’s the skill of the individuals in the group,” said the actress, who hosted her ex-husband on a two-part episode of her podcast ‘I Select Me’ last month.
Jennie Garth is opening up about how her podcast has positively impacted her relationship with her ex-husband Pedro Facinelli.
Throughout her Sunday mini-episode I select myself podcast, the actress revealed that the exes are now “formally friends” after mentioned their divorce on his podcast last month.
“I wanted to share something with you guys really quick. The great thing that came out of this pod… but particularly the episode with my ex Peter,” Garth, 52, began. “Guys, we’re officially friends now.”
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O Beverly Hills, 90210 alum mentioned that her ex “even unblocked her” on Instagram.
“I was blocked on his social media for so long that I stopped caring years ago,” Garth said. “But I’m unblocked now, guys. This is big news.”
“And never just that! He let me borrow his cooler for a photo shoot I did last weekend,” she continued. “He let me use his guest room for some adjustments we needed to make with some people.”
Garth went on to say that she and Facinelli are even planning things together.
“Get this: He invited me to his son Jack’s christening,” she said of her ex’s son, whom he shares with fiancée Lily Anne Harrison. “And this week — get ready for it — we’re all going on a ship with the whole family.”
“Whether or not we push each other overboard is still TBD,” she joked, adding, “But that’s the ability of the pod individuals. POTP — pod power.”
Garth and Facinelli, 50, have been married for more than 10 years. The former couple — who share daughters Luca, 26, Lola, 21, and Fiona, 17 — met in 1995 and tied the knot in 2001 after welcoming their first child. Facinelli filed for divorce in 2012, and the divorce was finalized in 2013.
Garth invited her ex-husband to a two part episode her I select myself podcast last month, during which the duo reflected on their marriage, eventual divorce and their lives afterwardsalong with collective co-parenting and their new relationships.
On some level, Facinelli recalled what led him to decide to file for divorce from Garth.
“I used to be very conflicted. It wasn’t a direct determination by any means,” he mentioned.
O Twilight The star also added that if they didn’t have kids, he doesn’t think he would have stayed with Garth for so long — “because I would have had the freedom to say, ‘OK, I need to figure out who I am.'”
While Facinelli mentioned that he “felt devastated about breaking up our family,” in the end he believes it was the “right decision.”
He and Garth shared that the separation ended up strengthening the family.
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“On the one hand, they lost that idyllic home, my mom and dad are still married, that kind of thing,” Garth explained. “On the other hand, they gained a lot more emotional depth, and a lot more energy, and so many other things from experiencing the way this happened to us.”
This also allowed Facinelli to get “in touch with” his personal identity, which he felt he “hadn’t developed” due to his young age when the couple got together, comparing the union to an “arranged marriage.”
“I felt like a lot of it was that I was in this marriage and it felt a little bit like an arranged marriage,” he said. “Like, I loved you, and we had this beautiful family on the surface, but I hadn’t developed who I was. I don’t even know how you could love me because I didn’t know myself.”
He added: “I didn’t know who I was and so I wanted to figure that out. I didn’t really feel like I had the space to try that within the marriage.”
In the years following their divorce, Garth moved on with Dave Abrams, whom she married in 2015. They briefly separated and filed for divorce, before later reconciling. Facinelli, meanwhile, got engaged to Harrison in 2020, and they welcomed their son Jack in September 2022.