Actor Mehmet Aslantuğ tied the knot with his colleague Arzum Onan in 1996. During their 27 years of marriage, the two, who came to the agenda with separation news many times, officially divorced last May.
The couple, who came to the courthouse hand in hand, left together again. Many claims were made about the separation, which dropped like a bomb on the tabloid agenda.
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HE BROKE HIS SILENCE: ‘I DID NOT BETRAY’
’Aslantuğ, who said ’I am the male side of a 30-year love story', broke his silence on his social media account.
In a statement made on his Instagram account, Aslantuğ said, “I am about to reach 40 years in my professional life, and I have been one of the parties of a love story that you all know for 30 years. An important part of men hurts. In my opinion, an important part of women also hurts. I say this independent of my own relationship because I spent 30 years with an interlocutor with a very elegant, very noble, very noble feeling that this poor person can see and see. I have endless respect for that place. I did not betray it,” he said.
“IT WASN'T EASY, I SUFFERED, I WAS SAD”
Underlining that he was not the one who wanted the divorce, Mehmet Aslantuğ said, “It was not easy” and added:
“When my dear Arzum told me that she was tired, that she wanted to find herself, that she wanted to move to a separate house, even though she didn't say most of the reasons so as not to hurt me, I had to understand, approve, respect the only heroine of this relationship that I thought I had embraced, that I thought I had cared for, that I didn't see that I had overwhelmed her in that caring. It wasn't easy. I suffered, I was sad, I tried to find words for months, blah, blah, blah...”
“WE CANNOT SUCCEED IN SEPARATE HOMES, SEPARATE LIVES”
Explaining that he offered to end the marriage legally because he thought the idea of living in separate houses would negatively affect their relationship, the famous name said, “I wanted only one thing; we cannot achieve this in separate houses, we cannot achieve it in separate lives. This will bend and twist too much. We are under surveillance. Let's come to an end legally. Let's look at it that way. That's all I said,” he said.
Mehmet Aslantuğ responded to the criticisms directed at him by saying, “I am having this conversation based on the sentences ‘We didn't think this suited you’, ‘You disappointed us’, ‘We lost our trust’. That's why this is a responsibility... Otherwise, I am not doing this because I am the subject of the issue or to fix something for my tomorrow. For more than a year, I have been managing with kindness the places where an average man would say ‘if that's the case...’ and embrace life with appetite and lust. Without breaking or spilling...”.