Karl Stefanovic’s ex-wife Cassandra Thorburn says she’s ‘never been happier’ and ‘has so much to look forward to’ five years after her painful split from the Today host
Today host Karl Stefanovic separated from his first wife, Cassandra Thorburn, in mid-2016, after 21 years of marriage.
And almost five years on from their painful split, Casandra has spoken candidly about her fulfilling new life as a single woman.
The former journalist, 49, told Woman’s Day: ‘I’ve got a very robust sense of peace and well-being… There’s so much to look forward to, I’ve never been happier.’
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Fulfilled: Karl Stefanovic’s ex-wife, Cassandra Thorburn, has revealed she’s ‘never been happier’ and ‘has so much to look forward to’ five years after her split from the Today co-host
Cassandra shares three children with Karl: sons Jackson, 21, and River, 14, and daughter Ava Willow, 15.
‘I’m grateful for my life and the direction it has taken,’ Cassandra told the magazine.
‘I’ve made our new house I bought over a year ago into a warm family home. The next life chapters, personally and professionally, are going to set me up for the next 20 years. I’ve got a very robust sense of peace and well-being,’ she added.
‘I’ve got a very robust sense of peace and well-being’: Cassandra said she had made her new house a ‘warm family home’ and taken on a new job she loved as she starts her ‘next life chapters’. Pictured with ex-husband Karl Stefanovic in 2012
Last year, Cassandra spoke candidly about her love life as a divorced woman.
She revealed at the time she had been dating on and off since splitting from Karl, but wasn’t interested in a ‘committed relationship’.
Cassandra also said she was focused on getting her children through school and her charity work with Taldumande Youth Services.
‘I want to get to know myself first’: Last year, Cassandra revealed she had been dating since splitting from Karl, but wasn’t interested in a ‘committed relationship’ at the time of the chat
‘I’ve been in a relationship for 20 more years and the last thing I actually want to do is be in a relationship with someone else again. I actually want to get to know myself,’ she said.
In August 2018, almost two years after her separation from Karl, Cassandra spoke to The Australian Women’s Weekly about her life.
‘Last year, I declared that Karl really was dead to me, a man I no longer know, but the children still have their father,’ she said at the time.
Happy in love: Karl married his new wife, shoe designer Jasmine Yarbrough (pictured), in a lavish ceremony in Mexico in December 2018
‘The flip-side of that is I feel like we’re dead to his family and almost anyone from our old life. There has been practically no contact. I feel like we’ve been discarded and disposed of, replaced by a whole new line-up of starters.’
Karl married his second wife, shoe designer Jasmine Yarbrough, 36, in a lavish ceremony in Mexico in December 2018.
The pair met at a boat party in Sydney just five months after his split from Cassandra.
They welcomed their first child together, a daughter named Harper, on May 1, 2020.
Growing family: The couple welcomed their first child, daughter Harper, on May 1, 2020