“I tried to divorce you so many times”.
Ashley Tisdale, 41, told her husband, musician Christopher French, in the first episode of her podcast “Recovering”, which is dedicated to mental health. The High School Musical and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody actress spoke about the hardest year of her life: the one that followed the birth of her daughter Jupiter, in March 2021.
Ashley was proud of having learned to manage her anxiety and thought she was ready to be a mom. But postpartum depression is hormonal, and none of the tools she already knew worked for her. According to her account, doctors even misdiagnosed her at first, and she didn’t know what was really happening to her until close to her daughter’s second birthday.
Meanwhile, Christopher never left her side. She describes him as so calm and grounded that he knew it was enough to let the storm pass. And he was right: they married in 2014, are still together, and now have two daughters, Jupiter, 5, and Emerson, 2.
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