After Jenna Dewan and Channing Tatum were given divorced, they needed to learn to peacefully coparent daughter Everly.
“It’s always a journey,” Dewan, 43, advised Romper in a Wednesday, January 17, interview. “It never ends. You just learn as you go and get better at certain things, and for me, Evie will always be my top priority. I just continually put her first. That’s how I can manage all hard things.”
Dewan and Tatum, 43, began courting in 2006 after assembly and taking part in love pursuits in Step Up. They wed in 2009, 4 years ahead of welcoming daughter Everly. The 2 actors cut up in 2018, finalizing their divorce the next 12 months.
In a while after the pair’s separation, Dewan discovered it tough to separate custody of Everly, now 10. (She and Tatum percentage 50/50 custody in their daughter.)
“In the beginning, that was really tough,” she recalled to Romper. “And it was definitely hard on her in the beginning, too, but she’s gotten into a flow with that a lot more. But she loves [her brother] Callum. She really adores him.”
Dewan has since moved on with Steve Kazee, who proposed in February 2020 forward of the delivery in their first child in combination. Son Callum, now 3, used to be born one month later. (Dewan is these days anticipating her 2d child with Kazee, 48.)
Dewan in the past opened as much as Us Weekly about Everly and Callum’s dynamic regardless of their seven-year age hole.
“She’s really protective of him. He’s like in awe of her. He thinks she’s the funniest, greatest thing that ever lived,” she solely advised Us in June 2023. “They have their moments and, like, there is a lot of separate activities, but then they come together. Last night it was bedtime and they were just play-fighting and wrestling in [Callum’s] bedroom. It was just really cute [and] I remember I looked at Steve and we had this moment where we were like, ‘Remember when we thought they weren’t gonna connect?’ So, it’s been great. We haven’t had too many issues with that at all.”
Previous that 12 months, a supply advised Us that Tatum — who has since moved on with fiancée Zoë Kravitz — has “the utmost respect” for Dewan.
“He will always hold her in the highest regard as the mother of their child and nothing could ever change that,” the insider famous in Would possibly 2023. “Despite the fact that they couldn’t make things work as a couple, they have a wonderful coparenting relationship and very healthy communication.”
Dewan and Tatum have even been confirmed to be a united drive at Everly’s Irish dancing competitions, each appearing as much as cheer on her endeavors.