Karl Stefanovic is bracing for embarrassment after his ex-wife, Cassandra Thorburn, signed a deal with Seven West Media to host a podcast series about divorce and separation.
While the podcast is not about Stefanovic and Thorburn’s split specifically, it’s believed she will allude to their 2016 break-up during the series titled Divorce Story.
The former journalist, 48, announced the launch of the podcast on Monday, telling her Instagram followers it will consist of ‘informative’ discussions with legal and relationship experts.
Watch out, Karl! Cassandra Thorburn (pictured) is launching a podcast for Channel SEVEN about getting divorced
Past: While the podcast is not about Stefanovic (right) and Thorburn’s split specifically, it’s believed she will allude to their 2016 break-up during the Divorce Story podcast (Pictured: Logie Awards, 2011)
Today show host Karl ended his 21-year marriage with Cassandra in 2016, and has since remarried to shoe designer Jasmine (née Yarbrough) – who is expecting a child in the coming months.
Casandra and Karl share three children together: Jackson, 20, River, 12, and Ava, 14.
Divorce Story: Surviving Separation had been commissioned by New Idea Magazine, which is owned by Nine’s rival, Seven West Media’s publishing division, Pacific.
The Australian claimed on Monday that Karl’s ex-wife would talk about the grief surrounding her own divorce and if she has begun dating again.
They also suggested Cassandra would ‘tell her side of the story’, which she has hit back at, clarifying: ‘The podcast will be an informative divorce chat with experts… despite The Australian falsely reporting otherwise.’
‘The podcast will be an informative divorce chat with experts’: Cass said while she won’t be directly speaking about her divorce, she will talk about her ‘grieving’ process, self-discovery and questions that came from her own separation experience
Dream team: Cassandra will co-host the podcast with journalist Annaliese Dent (left), after meeting her through Dancing With The Stars’ pal Constance Hall last year
Cassandra will co-host the podcast with journalist Annaliese Dent, after meeting her through Dancing With The Stars’ pal Constance Hall last year.
In quotes to the newspaper, the mother-of-three said: ‘Going through one [a divorce] myself, I realised it’s still a fairly taboo subject, considered negative, and information had to be self-gathered much of the time.’
She also revealed divorce was ‘in the top two most traumatic life events’ a person could go through.
Speaking to New Idea ahead of the podcast launch this week, Cassandra admitted: ‘Having been through a divorce, the biggest grief to deal with is the end of the marriage… It was a majority of my adult life. You have to grieve that.’
‘It was a majority of my adult life. You have to grieve that’: Cass said divorce was easily ‘in the top two most traumatic life events’ a person could go through. Pictured with Karl in 2012
‘I’d tell myself that I’m enough’: Reflecting on feeling ‘devastated’ following her split from Karl, she revealed what advice she would give to her former self. Pictured: September 2018
While she went on to say she’s going to use the podcast to ‘take control’ over her story, Cassandra added: ‘No [I won’t be talking about myself], but some of the questions I ask no doubt come from the experience that I had.’
Reflecting on feeling ‘devastated’ following her split from Karl, she revealed what advice she would give to her former self.
‘I’d tell myself that I’m enough – we’re all enough. Don’t expend energy wondering why something happened. Focus your energy on what you can control in your life.’
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‘I thought, hang on, a lot of people go through [divorce], why is mine such a big deal?’ Karl told 3AW in January. Pictured with Cass at a gala dinner in Sydney in October 2008
‘I still don’t know why it was, but I got divorced, I did find love again, and I’m sorry if people are offended by that, but it’s made me really happy’: Karl said about his new marriage to former model and shoe designer Jasmine (right) in January
More than three years after splitting from his ex-wife, Cassandra, Karl spoke out about the drama surrounding their split on 3AW in January.
The 45-year-old reinstated Today show host said he couldn’t understand why there was so much public interest surrounding his split.
‘I thought, hang on, a lot of people go through [divorce], why is mine such a big deal?’ he told the program.
‘I still don’t know why it was, but I got divorced, I did find love again, and I’m sorry if people are offended by that, but it’s made me really happy.’
Karl’s reputation plummeted after he split from Cassandra and went public with now-wife Jasmine, a former model-turned-shoe designer, who is 10 years his junior.
Happy ever after: Karl and Jasmine began dating in late 2016 and married in December 2018 at the One&Only Palmilla resort in Cabo, Mexico
Mama’s got moves! While Jasmine (left) has kept her pregnancy journey relatively private, she did offer a rare glimpse of her baby bump in a Tik Tok video last month. Pictured with her friend Tamara Ingham (centre) and stepdaughter, Ava Stefanovic (right)
Karl and Jasmine began dating in late 2016, just months after he had separated from Cassandra following 21 years of marriage.
In December, Karl and Jasmine celebrated their one-year anniversary after tying the knot in 2018 at Mexico’s five-star One&Only Palmilla resort.
They are due to welcome their first child together in May.
Divorce Story: Surviving Separation launches on March 4 in all podcast apps.
Coming soon: Divorce Story: Surviving Separation launches on March 4 in all podcast apps