Carrie Bickmore’s former partner of 11 years, Chris Walker, has broken his silence on the couple’s painful split early last year.
The television producer tells an upcoming episode of Luke Darcy’s Empowering Leaders podcast, as reported by the Herald Sun on Sunday, that he’s dealing with the ‘grief’ of the separation.
Chris explained the hardest part of their new co-parenting arrangement is ‘saying goodbye to the kids twice a week’.
‘I still find that just enormously challenging. I had always assumed I’d be around them a hundred per cent of the time’ he explained.
‘When it comes to being a dad, I was born for it. I love it and I wanna be around them all the time. I find that really difficult.’
Chris added that he was being supported by friends and family through ‘rougher times’ but he added, ‘the thing is, grief can last a long time.’
Carrie announced their split in an Instagram post in January last year, saying the pair was focused on co-parenting their three children, Ollie, 16, Evie, eight, and Adelaide, five.
‘It’s with immense sadness that Chris and I have decided to separate,’ she wrote.
Carrie Bickmore’s former partner of 11 years, Chris Walker, has broken his silence on the couple’s painful split early last year. Both pictured
‘While this is a tough time, our focus is on parenting, loving and supporting our three children Ollie, Evie and Addie with everything that we’ve got.
‘They are doing great. We won’t be making any further comment.’
Bickmore and Walker’s love story captured the hearts of Australians.
They met as colleagues on The Project – she was a presenter and he was a producer – and they began dating in late 2012, two years after she lost her husband Greg Lange, the father of her eldest child Ollie, to brain cancer.
Chris explained the hardest part of their new co-parenting arrangement is ‘saying goodbye to the kids twice a week’. Pictured with their children
‘I still find that just enormously challenging. I had always assumed I’d be around them a hundred per cent of the time’ he explained
Despite his terminal diagnosis, Bickmore had married Langue in 2005 when she was just 25 years old.
After Langue died in 2010 at the age of 35, a widowed Bickmore started the charity Carrie’s Beanies for Brain Cancer in his memory.
Two years later and Bickmore had found love again with Walker, who became a stepdad to Oliver, and with whom she later had two daughters: Evie, born in 2015, and Adelaide, born in 2018.
In November, Carrie listed her stunning five bedroom, three bathroom Byron Bay property for sale, 10 months after her split with partner Chris Walker.
The former Project star’s holiday home, which was recently used as an Airbnb rental, was listed for sale for $3.65million.
Carrie announced their split in an Instagram post in January last year, saying the pair was focused on co-parenting their three children, Ollie, 16, Evie, eight, and Adelaide, five
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