Joan Lunden reflects on the moment she learned her marriage was ending. She'd tell her past self to brace for impact: divorce hits harder and faster than you expect, and you need to be mentally ready for what's coming.
If you went back now and you could talk to yourself in that moment that you realized that you were going to get a divorce and you were going to have to face all of this, what would you tell yourself?
You damn well better be ready for what's coming.
Wars. I mean, I didn't realize—
to be honest, I didn't think people were that interested in me. I didn't think that my getting divorced would be made into that big of a deal. But the tabloids went Bonkers. I mean, I went one entire year that there wasn't one week that there wasn't an article on a tablet.
