Celebs Who Milked Their Own Divorce For Fame

Kevin Hart's divorce from his first wife, Torrei Hart, was finalized in 2011, after eight years of marriage. Since then, both Kevin and Torrei have milked their breakup for laughs and attention. 

According to People, Kevin made fun of his infidelity on stage during Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain in 2013. "I cheated. Am I ashamed of it? No, I'm not," he joked. "Do I wish I could take it back? No, I don't. Let me tell you why. You can't evolve as a man if you don't make a mistake. The only way that you can be perfect is to not f**k up. I did it, I f**ked up. Don't cheat!"

Torrei also made lemonade out of lemons with her 2014 appearance on the reality show Atlanta Exes. 

In the summer of 2017, Kevin became entangled in an alleged extortion scandal after he was caught reportedly cheating on his second wife, Eniko Parrish, who was pregnant at the time. Once again, Hart tried to transform his troubles into a laugh to promote his Irresponsible stand-up tour, and like a third wheel on that tour bus, Torrei made herself readily available for interviews, too.  

Weeks before their ninth wedding anniversary, Tamar Braxton and Vincent Herbert called it quits. Braxton filed for divorce in October 2017, on the heels of the release of her fifth studio album, Bluebird of Happiness. Right before dropping the album, Braxton made a point to tell Entertainment Tonight that this record would be her last, insisting she was retiring from the music biz "to eliminate all of the stress and problems off of my relationship." The timing of all this conveniently drummed up a lot of publicity. But wait, there's more.

What tied all the drama into a neat bow was the couple's reality show, Tamar & Vince. Its fifth season debuted in November 2017. Previews depicted Braxton and Herbert fighting and (gasp) not wearing their wedding bands. 

That same month, Braxton hit the Soul Train Music Awards red carpet sans wedding ring. She also discussed her relationship on Instagram: "I decided I didn't want to be married for the sake of saying so. I wanted to have a relationship. Someone to share my/our dreams, our successes, our failures, our past, present & future with." 

Will she share the publicity, too?

There is perhaps no greater uncoupling captured for reality TV than Caitlyn and Kris Jenner's high-profile split. Their divorce was finalized in 2015 after 23 years together, and the exes (and their big broods) had plenty to say about it in public.

In her 2015 Vanity Fair profile, Caitlyn revealed her identity as a woman and blamed the demise of their marriage on Kris, not gender issues. "A lot of times she wasn't very nice," Caitlyn said. "People would see how I got mistreated. She controlled the money...all that kind of stuff... Twenty percent was gender and 80 percent was the way I was treated."

Of course, the divorce drama became a plot line on Keeping up with the Kardashians. Kris captains that publicity ship, and TV footage showed her crying about Caitlyn's portrayal of her. 

Caitlyn made headlines again when she dished about marital drama in her 2017 autobiography, The Secrets of My Life. She writes (via Hollywood Life) that the relationship "began to implode" when the reality show "became a runaway success and Kris [Jenner] was at the helm of a multimillion-dollar franchise in which she controlled all the purse strings. Including mine." That may be so, but Caitlyn's post-divorce publicity certainly helped fill her purse. 

It's been a long, long road for Khloé Kardashian and Lamar Odom. The pair married in 2009 after only knowing each other for a matter of days, but their on-again-off-again divorce dragged on for years, before officially concluding in 2016.

It certainly sounds like Khloé is capitalizing on her single status with her own spin-off reality show on E!. The series is called Revenge Body, so it's fair to assume that's a message directed at Odom, but Khloé has played coy: "People always say 'revenge' like you have to be getting it on somebody else," she told Today. "For me, 'revenge' is like maybe getting it on my old self." Sure, maybe, but we suspect Khloé and the folks at E! knew exactly how most folks would interpret that title.

Could Yolanda Hadid be a mastermind at gaining attention? The end of her four-year marriage to music producer David Foster was announced on the premiere date of Season Six of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. However, the ex-couple's divorce wasn't finalized until October 2017. 

The divorce news also coincided closely with the release of Hadid's memoir, Believe Me: My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease. Inside, Hadid took a closer look at her marriage and claimed Foster grew tired of her sickness, which contributed to their split:

"All of a sudden all of the things we shared, all of the things we used to love to do together, go for walks in the morning, having a studio in the house and blasting music all day, having dinner parties, that all shut down. I couldn't participate in that life anymore," she wrote (via People.) "...A chronic condition like mine, one that has consumed years of our lives, poses enormous challenges."