When gymnast Mary Lou Retton was ready to announce her divorce, she didn’t go to Us Weekly or People. Rather, she took it to the ballroom. When Retton appeared on “Dancing with the Stars” in 2018, she revealed to her partner, Sasha Farber, that she and her football player husband, Shannon Kelley, were no more after around 27 years of marriage. “I went through a divorce. People don’t know that,” Retton shared on the show, noting that it was the first time she had decided to address the split publicly (via CNN). She then went on to share a little bit about what happened, explaining to Farber, “It’s something that had really needed to happen for a long time. We still love one another, but we weren’t great together anymore.”
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The former couple managed to keep things on the down low for quite some time before Retton went public, as The Blast reported she was the one who filed — and she’d done it almost a whole year earlier in November 2017. Court documents sourced after she made the big reveal on “DWTS” confirmed that Retton had also asked to get a temporary restraining order from Kelley, and stated, “[The marriage is] insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities that destroyed any chance they could reconcile.”
