Abbott Elementary's Quinta Brunson breaks silence on divorce as she addresses 'major change' in life
The 35-year-old actress married Kevin Jay Anik in 2022, and it emerged via public records earlier this year that she had filed for divorce but she has insisted that no one famous actually wants others to know when something happens in their personal life.
She told Bustle: 'I remember seeing people be like, 'She announced her divorce.'
"I didn't announce anything. I think people have this idea that people in the public eye want the public to know their every move. None of us do. I promise you. No one wants [everyone] to know when you buy a house, when you move, when a major change happens in your personal life. It's just that that's public record information.'
The Abbott Elementary star initially felt the need to present herself in a "certain way" once she found success with her Emmy Award-winning TV series and felt pressure to avoid doing things like changing her appearance, but then found it "very liberating" to stop thinking like that.
She said: "When Abbott started, it felt like, 'OK, I'm quite public now, and I'm responsible for so many people. I need to be consistent. I need to show up a certain way. I need to be reliable.
"I got it in my head that that's a bad sign
"You can't cut your hair, you can't pierce your nose, you can't get a tattoo. It's going to give, 'You don't know who you are.'
"Those are invisible voices that aren't in your home with you, that aren't in your personal life, that aren't your friends.
'I love my fans, I love the people who watch Abbott. So you want to hear them, and you want to listen to them, but when it comes to matters of your personal life and decisions you make, you do have to tune it out.
"When I finally cut it off, there was something very liberating about it.
"You can still change and evolve and start over. Cutting my hair helped remind me that I am an artist first. I want to feel things. I want to do things. I want to make choices. I want to be a person, and not just stuck in having to be a certain way for business."
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