Kevin Costner - STAR'S SHOCK SPLIT!

THE BUSY ACTOR HAS BEEN BLINDSIDED BY HIS WIFE OF ALMOST TWO DECADES, AS SHE FILES FOR DIVORCE WHILE HE IS AWAY FILMING

-  Jennie Noonan

Celebrating his 68th birthday on January 18, Kevin Costner was feeling upbeat. “Don’t believe what they say about getting older,” he posted alongside a photo of himself in a cowboy hat and jeans. “Each passing year is a gift, and it gets better and better with time.” Well, Kev? It’s complicated.

The actor was reportedly stunned when his wife Christine Baumgartner filed for divorce on May 1 after 18 years of marriage. “It was not anything that he wanted or sought,” a source told People magazine. “If he could change the situation, he would.”

A representative for Costner also alluded to the Yellowstone star’s surprise in an official statement: “It is with great sadness that circumstances beyond his control have transpired which have resulted in Mr Costner having to participate in a dissolution of marriage action.”

This divorce isn’t Costner’s first rodeo. The actor was married to his first wife, Cindy Silva, when he initially met Baumgartner on a golf course while rehearsing for the comedy Tin Cup. However, the two didn’t start dating until they connected again at a restaurant in 1998. Costner’s 1994 split from his college sweetheart Silva, with whom he shares kids Joe, 35, Lily, 36, and Annie, 39, would be one of the most expensive break-ups in Hollywood history.