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John Mulaney's Ex Recalls "Severe" Breakdown
Content warning: This communicative discusses suicide.
Anna Marie Tendler is paying tribute to the pup who helped her done her divorcement from John Mulaney.
The creator precocious recalled the hard months astir her divided from the comedian aft six years of marriage, noting however her beloved French bulldog Petunia—who died successful April—played a important portion successful guiding her done the devastating time.
"Petunia and I moved to Connecticut successful December 2020, successful the aftermath of my terrible intelligence wellness breakdown and what appeared to beryllium the impending extremity of my marriage," Tendler wrote successful an effort for Elle published June 6. "We fused adjacent much profoundly unneurotic successful an attuned and wholly symbiotic relationship. She ne'er fto maine retired of her sight."
In fact, Petunia was protective implicit Tendler during this time.
"She watched maine intently," Tendler added, "as if I was the happening she present needed to guard, though, wherever guarding erstwhile incited her primal rage, she would present defender maine with the deepest benignant of emotion I had ever known."
And it was her ain devotion to Petunia that kept her going.
"When I was hospitalized for depression, self-harm, and terrible suicidal ideation successful the archetypal 2 weeks of 2021, the doctors asked maine to marque a database of my reasons for living," Tendler recalled. "Petunia was the 1 and lone happening connected that list."
The 37-year-old's hospitalization came amid Mulaney's enactment in rehab for cocaine and intoxicant addiction, which helium entered successful December 2020. After wholly a 60-day stint, helium entered outpatient attraction successful February 2021 and confirmed his divided from Tendler that May, with her penning successful a connection to Page Six astatine the time, "I americium heartbroken that John has decided to extremity our marriage."
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As for Petunia, Tendler said her precocious furry person was her "constant done marriage, 4 moves, postgraduate school, a vocation alteration (or two), a intelligence wellness crisis, a divorce, and yet a reinvention."
And during Petunia's past moments, the erstwhile constitution creator shared that she "told her however overmuch I emotion her" and thanked her for her steadfast support.
"I told her however grateful I was for her emotion and companionship," Tendler continued. "I promised her that I was good and that I would beryllium good without her; crushed, lonely, but okay. I thanked her for staying with me—for guarding me—until I was beardown capable to past without her."
If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize needs help, telephone 988 to scope the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You tin besides telephone the network, antecedently known arsenic the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, astatine 800-273-8255, substance HOME to 741741 oregon sojourn SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for further resources.
