Life imitating art? Writer of hit US series Divorce, Sharon Horgan, separates from husband Jeremy Rainbird after 14 years together
- The couple met 14 years ago, with Sharon, 49, falling pregnant six months later
- Based Channel 4 drama Catastrophe, starring Rob Delaney, on their experiences
- The news comes as the third series of her HBO drama, Divorce, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, is due to hit the screens
Sharon Horgan is known for writing TV dramas that are based on her life, now her husband has revealed that they’re separating, just as a new series of Divorce is set to start.
Producer Jeremy Rainbird, 45, confirmed to the Sunday Times, that the couple have filed for divorce, just as the third series of her HBO drama, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, is due to hit the screens.
The couple met 14 years ago, with Sharon, now 49, falling pregnant just six months later – basing her Channel 4 drama Catastrophe, starring Rob Delaney, on their experiences. While her show about single life, Pulling, was said to be about her dating life.
Her husband said praised his soon to be ex-wife for ‘drawing from life’ and insists that despite their upcoming divorce that they’re still ‘genuinely mates’.
Sharon Horgan is known for writing TV dramas that are loosely based on her life, now her husband has revealed that they’re separating. Pictured with soon-to-be ex husband Jeremy Rainbird in 2016
Jeremy, who is a managing partner in his wife’s production company said: ‘She is a great mum and great business partner. And I love her dearly, but at some point in the next three to four months the divorce will be finalised.’
In 2016 her HBO series Divorced, which stars Sex and the City’s Sarah Jessica Parker as the main character, debuted in 2016.
It follows Sarah’s character Frances Dufresne, a married woman who has an affair and starts divorce proceedings with her husband.
When the show initially came out she said to the New Yorker: ‘If it wasn’t so hard to get a divorce, I would get a divorce.’
In 2016 her HBO series Divorced, which stars Sex and the City’s Sarah Jessica Parker (pictured) as the main character, debuted to mixed reviews.
The couple met 14 years ago and the writer and actress fell pregnant just six months later – loosely basing her Channel 4 drama Catastrophe, with Rob Delaney, on their experiences
Since she wrote Pulling, which started in 2006, Sharon has gone on to write and star in Hollywood movies and British dramas including Game on and also Motherland
While in the past, the actress spoke about the storyline for Catastrophe: ‘That is what happened to me,’ she’s said, ‘so it made sense to write about it.’
Jeremy said that couple will still co-parent their two children Sadhbh, 15, and Amer, 11, claiming that they all hung out together recently and ‘We are so lucky that we are genuinely mates.’
Since she wrote Pulling, which started in 2006, Sharon has gone on to write and star in Hollywood movies and British dramas including Game on and also Motherland.
The Irish star also bought a Hollywood home earlier this year. The one-storey 1953 house, just underneath the Hollywood sign once belonged to Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante and in the late 1990s.