HGTV star Brandon Hatmaker is sharing his side of the story after his ex-wife, Jen Hatmaker, detailed his affair in her new memoir, “Awake.”
Brandon and Jen, who cohosted HGTV’s “Your Big Family Renovation” from 2014-2015, had been married for 26 years when Jen discovered he was cheating on her in 2020.
Jen told the New York Post that her husband’s infidelity was “so outside the realm of what I would have ever considered a possibility” that she “almost could not process it.” But Brandon had been unhappy for a long time when he begun the affair that ended his marriage.
In a lengthy essay posted to Substack on Monday, Sept. 22, Brandon said his affair was “the culmination of a three-year personal spiral in which I had lost my anchor, felt no hope, and was the loneliest I’ve ever bee