Karl Stefanovic has responded after his ex-wife Cassandra Thorburn claimed she and their three children were dead to his family.
Two years on from their split, 47-year-old Thorburn spoke to The Australian Women’s Weekly in a tell-all interview.
“Last year, I declared that Karl really was dead to me, a man I no longer know, but the children still have their father,” the mother-of-three said.
“The flip-side of that is I feel like we’re dead to his family and almost anyone from our old life.
“There has been practically no contact. I feel like we’ve been discarded and disposed of, replaced by a whole new line-up of starters.”
But a spokesperson for Stefanovic and his family has now responded to her comments, calling them “disappointing”.
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“We are disappointed Cass would claim such inflammatory suggestions that we have alienated Karl’s children from our family,” the spokesperson told TheFIX.
“Nothing could be further from the truth. Karl regularly co parents his children and has his loving family around them.
“We refuse to keep a running dialogue of the children. There are custody and financial matters before the Family Court and Karl has abided by every single one of them and we will not jeopardise it. Family is often compromised when parents go through a painful divorce and we do our best to continue our love and support for the children.”
Stefanovic and Thorburn have three children together: Jackson, 18, Ava, 13 and River, 11.
Top Comments
Don’t be too quick to rush in and judge her. I’ve been in her position.
When your marriage ends like this you have to grieve the loss of a partner. It’s like they have died, but the person you loved never existed. You don’t get the support, you get judgement and feel shame.
Instead of supporting her and the children her (former) in laws have (it seems) abandoned her. That really hurts. It’s a disgusting thing to do to a daughter in law / sister in law etc.
Don’t begrudge her the opportunity to tell her story. (And remember she’s a stay at home Mum, who now has to financially support herself).
Oh, come on. She and Karl have already reached an uncontested financial settlement in the range of 6 million for her, plus ongoing child support. It's no less than she deserves, given the contribution she made to his career. You can hardly imply she is so down on her luck that she needs to sell bitter stories to the press about her children's father in order to pay the bills.
Although it may be time for Cass to retreat from public view as there has been enough dirty laundry aired, I guess the question is were the children invited to their uncle’s wedding . If they weren’t then it really proves Cass’ point.
Not necessarily, children aren’t always invited to weddings, even if they are family.
Hmm, given the circumstances, a decent family would invite the kids. Regardless of some event planners preference.
It might be nothing to do with’event planners’. Plenty of ‘decent’ families don’t have children at their weddings.
Invite the kids as damage control, in case the ex of the brother of the groom goes nuclear and makes a public scene...?