Vinnie Jones Quotes

I was barely 17 when our father decided to part ways with my mother.

My parents divorced when I was 12, and leading up to that it was... not without turbulence.

Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.

I was six when my parents divorced, and that was tough for me.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

My parents separated when I was younger.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

I remember the bad times as a succession of painful emotional snapshots: Me walking into the library at 24 Sussex, seeing my mother in tears, and hearing her talk about leaving while my father stood facing her, stern and ashen.

I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up.

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.

My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.

My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.

There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.

The word 'divorce' wasn't foreign to me. As a child of the 1970s, I grew up as part of a generation of kids whose parents got divorced, and it wasn't seen as this terrible thing. Maybe that's why I believed what my father told me and Reina that day: that everything would be okay. But it wasn't.

Divorce, splitting up a family, is a terrible thing.

But as a kid you take it very personally when your parents divorce.

I was very young when my parents separated, and later, my mother remarried.

I grew up in a broken home.

I don't want to get too detailed and personal, but my parents got divorced when I was about nine. A lot of that had to do with my dad being on the road and that disconnect.