Amanda Owen has opened up about her split from Clive Owen, as she admitted that “life carries on”.
The Yorkshire Shepherdess made her comments during an appearance on The Jeremy Vine Show earlier this week.
Amanda Owen and Clive Owen split
Earlier this week, The Jeremy Vine Show saw Amanda make an appearance as a guest.
The 48-year-old was on the show to discuss her new book, Celebrating the Seasons.
However, as well as talking about her book, the Our Yorkshire Farm star also opened up about her split from her husband, Clive.
Amanda and Clive were married for 22 years and share nine children together.
However, earlier this year they split up.
“Although we are no longer a couple, we continue to work on the farm and co-parent together, with our number one priority the happiness and wellbeing of our children,” they said in a joint statement at the time.
Amanda Owen talks Clive split
After briefly speaking about her book, Jeremy Vine bought up the subject of Amanda’s split from Clive.
“Got to ask you about Clive, because obviously, we’ve all read in the papers that you’ve broken up,” he said.
“But you’re not parting from the farm,” he continued.
“No. I mean, this morning, I’m dealing with a child with chicken pox, I’ve got another one that’s been ill,” Amanda said.
“Everything just carries on because it has to,” she said.
“You can’t sort of have that amount of work on the farm, with the children, and sort of meet at a weekend at McDonald’s for the handover,” she continued.
Amanda opens up
Jeremy then pressed on, saying: “So, you’re almost as close as you were?”
“Actually, to be dead honest with you, coming out and speaking out about it has been a real, for us personally, it’s been good,” she said.
“It’s been a release of pressure,” she continued. “And at the end of the day, everything that we’ve ever put out there, on the television or in the books, has been about reality.”
She then went on to say that their split is “as much reality as anything”.
Jemma Forte then told Amanda that she is the “most authentic” person in the studio and that she should ignore any of the hate she gets.
“That means a lot, thank you,” Amanda said.
Amanda’s comments came a day after she appeared on Lorraine and addressed her split there.
“Life carries on on the farm. Obviously, there is a whole raft of things to do – nine children, a whole heap of animals. We are just working away same as before,” she said.
“Because at the end of the day our priority remains, of course, to keep everything going.”
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The Jeremy Vine Show airs on weekdays on Channel 5 and My5 from 9:15am.
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