DWTS pro Sasha Farber addresses divorce from Emma Slater

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Dancers Emma Slater and Sasha Farber are divorcing after five years of marriage

On February 22, Emma Slater, the “Dancing With the Stars” professional dancer, filed for divorce from husband Sasha Farber after nearly five years of marriage. after people. Irreconcilable differences are cited as the justification for the divorce application.

Farber has now posted a brief response to the submission on his Instagram stories.

Sasha Farber said of his divorce from Emma Slater that he was “grateful for the good times.”

In an Instagram story on the day news of the divorce broke, Farber wrote a message expressing gratitude for the good times and moving on.

Farber wrote, “Things don’t always work out in life, but it’s important to be grateful for the good times and great memories, to be strong, and to keep moving.”

Farber and Slater got engaged during a live show “Dancing With the Stars” in October 2016 and married on March 25, 2018. Their separation date at the time they filed for divorce is April 1, 2022, according to People.

A source told the magazine, “Emma and Sasha are still close. There is no bad blood between them.”

When the two got engaged, Slater said People at the time“We’ve been together for five and a half years. We recently bought a home and it feels like a natural development. My mother once said that marriage should feel natural and not like a surprise. It should be expected because then it’s right and it already feels like I’ve been his fiancee and wife for years. It feels really natural.”

When the two got married five of the bridesmaids were Slater and Farber’s fellow Dancing With the Stars pros Witney Carson, Lindsay Arnold, Hayley Erbert, Britt Cherry and Jenna Johnson. Pro-Judge Derek Hough was one of Farber’s best man.

Sasha Farber & Emma Slater haven’t been very open about their divorce

Despite splitting in April 2022, the two have continued to collaborate on Dancing With the Stars and the show’s ongoing 2023 tour (which runs through the end of March).

They haven’t actually spoken publicly about the divorce or confirmed the separation prior to filing. Next came when asked Extra TV Slater on how she’s doing amid the split, according to some anonymous sources confirmed to Us Weekly And E! News that the couple was no longer together.

When Extra asked Slater how she was doing, she said, “I think it’s been a challenging year for a lot of people … For me, I’m just surrounding myself with a lot of friends and just trying to rise up and do the best I can, and.” I really think that’s the same for almost everyone.”

That echoed some comments Farber made in the season 31 episode when he and partner Selma Blair were forced to retire due to their health issues.

“It’s been a tough year losing a very close family member, it’s been hard to dance with [Blair], she just shot everything the way it had to be, she inspired me again, she inspired so many people out there. She is a wonderful mother and an iconic actress and now a beautiful dancer. I owe her everything,” Farber said at the time.

When the source confirmed their split to Us Weekly, the source told the outlet, “They have been separated for many months now. Neither of them wore wedding rings and each leads a single life… It’s been a difficult time as they really care about each other and have been together for so long.”

Dancing With the Stars returns for its 32nd season on Disney Plus in Fall 2023.