American actor and singer Billy Porter has parted ways with his husband Adam Smith after six years of marriage.
In a statement, representative Simon Halls confirmed the amicable and mutual decision to divorce. “I can confirm that Billy Porter and his husband Adam Smith have made the sad decision to end their marriage after six years,” the statement began. “The decision was an amicable and mutual one and was made after much consideration. They continue to love and support each other as they embark on this next chapter.”
Halls insisted there would be no further comments from either party and requested privacy. The former couple first met in 2009 at a dinner party, dated for a year, and then rekindled their love five years later. Porter proposed to Smith while dining in London on December 29, 2016.
Smith revealed that it was important to Porter to marry before Donald Trump’s Presidential Inauguration on January 20th. “We were discussing, and Billy had actually brought up to me that it’s important for us to get married while [Barack] Obama is still President and before January 20,” he explained.
They married on January 17, 2017, during an intimate ceremony at a friend’s Chelsea penthouse in Manhattan, New York.
Porter explained that they both grew up in homophobic households and were long convinced that “the sanctity of marriage was not for us.” He expressed his astonishment at the tide turning and the profound importance of their union.
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