Laurence Fox responds after ex-wife Billie Piper claims ‘monumental issue’ in co-parenting with him
Laurence Fox has responded after his ex-wife Billie Piper claimed co-parenting two youngsters with the actor had include “enormous difficulty”.
Piper, who has been largely coy about her 2016 divorce from political activist Fox, made the comments in an interview with British Vogue.
On Friday, Fox responded in an prolonged publish on social media website X.
“The reality is that not all marriages work out and the world isn’t perfect,” he wrote.
“I do nevertheless take nice exception to the assertion that co-parenting with me is enormously troublesome.
“I have never tried to deny our boys access to their mum and I would never wish her anything other than a stable family.
“My solely focus these previous years has been to be current of their lives and be a loving dad. I’m not excellent, however I’ve performed my best possible to place the children first.”
Fox claimed Piper had taken him to court “greater than a dozen instances” since their split, “forcing us at hand over more cash which actually must be going in direction of the kids’s future”.
He also criticised the “secretive” family court system, which he claimed was “massively weighted in direction of the mom” and was “completely unfit for function”.
The former Lewis actor, who lately has remodelled himself as a self-professed “anti-woke” campaigner and chief of the populist Reclaim Party, has discovered himself in the course of several high-profile controversies.
One of his most up-to-date controversies led to him being dropped by GB News over “misogynistic” comments he made on air a couple of feminine journalist. He later apologised.
In an interview with British Vogue, printed on Friday, Piper stated co-parenting her two youngsters aged 11 and 15 with Fox amid such controversies got here “with enormous difficulty”.
“I’ve had to make some choices and a divorce speaks for itself. Or at least it should,” she stated.
“What is paramount for me is the privacy and anonymity of my children,” she stated. “They deserve not to be extensions of the parents and to forge their own identities.”
British Vogue stated the interview with Piper, printed on-line on 15 March, passed off days earlier than a High Court judge ruled Fox had libelled two people when he referred to them as “paedophiles” on social media.
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Asked what she does when such dramas come up with Fox, Piper stated: “I close everything down and keep a very strict routine with the kids so that there’s consistency. I keep them close. That’s all I can do.”
She implied she asks her family and friends to keep away from telling her about Fox, including: “I try to keep people from telling me stuff but it’s really, really hard.
“I do not learn it however everybody desires to speak about it. Sometimes I’ve to say to folks: ‘Please do not carry this to me, now or ever’.”