Six months after filing for divorce from Matthew Lawrence, Cheryl Burke made some cryptic social media posts suggesting she had been cheated on. “When he said he would never talk to her again yet I found text messages, viagra, and a necklace hidden in a pair of his shoes…” she wrote over a TikTok clip of herself looking unamused in August 2022. She added in the caption: “The last time is absolutely right! Goodbye forever.”
In the comments section, some users cautioned that Burke could have been seeing someone else since splitting from Lawrence. However, she gave a strong indication that she was referring to her soon-to-be ex-husband a month later via another TikTok post. In the clip, she lip-synced to a “Modern Love” scene in which Dev Patel’s Joshua confronts Caitlin McGee’s Emma about her cheating on him. Over the image, she included a checklist with the words: “Kick him out of my house; Hire divorce attorney; File for divorce.”
It doesn’t get much more clear than that. While infidelity may have been the last straw, Burke and Lawrence had also struggled with power imbalances in the relationship. “I definitely would say I was the breadwinner,” she said on the “Amy & T.J.” podcast in April 2024. Burke didn’t mind that dynamic, but it took a toll on the marriage. “It made me feel good, but then it didn’t necessarily make the relationship good,” she added.
