After a year-long split, Backstreet Boys bandmate AJ McLean has officially broken up with his wife, Rochelle.
In a joint statement on Instagram, the McLeans announced that they will separate and divorce in 2024. AJ captioned the post with just a crying emoji. “As everyone knows, we have been separated for over a year,” she reads in the statement. “Although we hoped for reconciliation, we have decided to officially end our marriage. “It is with deep love and respect that we have made this decision.”
AJ and Rochelle McLean then stated that their focus now is to move forward in the healthiest way possible with their friendship and co-parenting their two daughters, Elliott and Lyric. “We appreciate your kindness, respect and privacy at this time,” they added.
.AJ McLean first met Rochelle in October 2001. They started dating in 2009 and on her birthday in 2010, AJ proposed to Rochelle. The couple then got married in December 2011. Unfortunately, in March 2023, AJ and Rochelle announced that they were temporarily separating to build a stronger future.
“Marriage is difficult but it is worth it,” the couple said. “We have mutually decided to temporarily separate to work on ourselves and our marriage in hopes of building a stronger future,” the couple said in a joint statement. “The plan is to get back together and continue nurturing our love for each other and our family. “We ask for respect and privacy at this time.”
“Separation is difficult enough without the comments, please be kind and remember there are children involved,” they added.
AJ McLean said he and Rochelle were in a “much, much healthier” place while separated
During his November 2023 appearance on the iHeartMedia podcast Sex, lies and spray tans with cheryl burke, AJ stated that he and Rochelle were still living apart and were in a “much, much healthier place.”
“We still live apart, but we’re in couples therapy, we’re in individual therapy,” McLean explained. He later said that they talk every day and spend more time together. “We just have to rebuild something that was never there from the beginning.”
AJ McLean further explained that when he and Rochelle first got together, there were good and bad things. “I came with baggage, she came with baggage, she had a trauma, I had a trauma. He was neither sober nor prepared to be sober. She was dealing with her own shit,” the star explained. “It was just a constant tug of war: she would sweep her feelings under the rug or I would dive into a bottle.”
Meanwhile, the Backstreet Boys bandmate said he’s focusing on listening and having more empathy as he gets older. “Normally I would twist it and do it on me. Not anymore,” he continued. “By approaching things that way, it’s been much, much healthier.”
AJ McLean added that the split has taught him and Rochelle some life lessons they hadn’t learned before. “It has taken us this time apart to really grow, understand and seriously listen.”
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