John Mulaney's Ex-Wife Anna Marie Tendler Was Hospitalized for Suicidal Ideation Amid Divorce
Anna Marie Tendler is opening up about what happened amid her divorce.
The 37-year-old artist, who went through a very public split with ex-husband John Dulaney, penned a powerful essay looking back at her marriage for Elle.
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Years ago, John checked into a rehab center for addiction issues in December of 2020. By May of 2021, it was announced that he and Anna Marie were divorcing after six years of marriage, and Anna made it clear that it was not her decision.
At nearly the same time, it was confirmed that John was dating Olivia Munn. And by September, John announced that Olivia was pregnant with their first child.
In the essay, Anna recalled moving to Connecticut in December of 2020 in “the wake of my severe mental health breakdown and what appeared to be the impending end of my marriage.”
She spoke of her French bulldog Petunia, who she says helped during the ordeal.
“We fused even more deeply together in an attuned and totally symbiotic relationship. She never let me out of her sight. In fact, she watched me intently, as if I was the thing she now needed to guard, though, where guarding once incited her primal rage, she would now guard me with the deepest kind of love I had ever known.”
“When I was hospitalized for depression, self-harm, and severe suicidal ideation in the first two weeks of 2021, the doctors asked me to make a list of my reasons for living. Petunia was the one and only thing on that list,” she continued.
Anna heartbreaking recalled the last days of Petunia’s life after she was diagnosed with both heart disease and a “brain tumor or brain stem disease.”
“She took her last breaths while cradled in my arms. Even after life had left her body, I sat with her, held her, and continued to talk to her. I told her how much I love her. I told her how grateful I was for her love and companionship. I promised her that I was okay and that I would be okay without her; crushed, lonely, but okay.”
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