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Olivia Plath‘s relationship with estranged husband Ethan Plath wasn’t always easy, but looking back she realized how toxic it was at times.
“The day we both said we were no longer in a relationship, we divorced [in my mind],” Olivia, 26, told her sister Lydia Grace in the Tuesday, July 23 episode of Welcome to Plathville. “[We were] separately.”
Olivia, who announced her split from 26-year-old Ethan in October 2023, insisted she “gave my marriage everything I had” before pulling the plug.
“There’s no doubt in my mind whether I fought hard enough for it or not,” she told the cameras. “I think I’m way past my sell-by date.”
Welcome to Plathville stars Ethan Plath and Olivia Plath faced their fair share of challenges before calling it quits. The reality stars got married in October 2018 after being engaged for almost a year. Despite the opportunity, the newlyweds faced tension with Ethan’s ultra-conservative parents, Kim and Barry Plath, early in their relationship. “When […]
Olivia noted that her time away from Ethan and their former apartment in Minnesota has given her clarity. “Now that I’m alone and feel like my life is so much more peaceful, I realize how chaotic and dysfunctional that was. And I don’t miss that,” Olivia continued. “Maybe someday I’ll separate it all in my mind. But for now he is part of it.”
She claimed, “That was a whole, my whole world didn’t feel safe.”
Olivia and Ethan were married for five years before splitting up. During the season 6 premiere, which aired earlier this month, fans learned that it had been nine months since their breakup. Ethan was hesitant to sign the divorce papers at the time because he hoped they could make amends.
Welcome to Plathville introduced viewers to Barry and Kim Plath and their nine children when the reality show premiered on TLC in November 2019. According to the series description, the couple’s children were: Ethan, Hosanna, Micah, Moriah, Lydia, Isaac, Amber, Cassia and Mercy — “never drank soda before, don’t know who Spider-Man or Tom […]
Olivia, meanwhile, was convinced that it was over between them. “I don’t love him romantically, but I still care about him as a person,” she said of Ethan during Tuesday’s episode. “And it’s really hard to try to maintain that care and compassion when you’re still frustrated about the way things turned out and how he’s dragging his feet now. Because I would really love to see it wrapped up.
Ethan, for his part, finally told the majority of his family about his and Olivia’s breakup during the episode.
“Well, Olivia and I are getting divorced. That’s what’s new. We have been separated since March or late February,” he told relatives at the Plath family home in Georgia. “I actually hoped that something would have changed after the summer. I asked her if we could try again and I guess that’s a no.
Ethan – who was about to move out of his and Olivia’s shared apartment – confessed: ‘The depression that I carry with me and that haunts me every day is there. It is difficult. I detest it.”
He acknowledged that even though he was “very young” and there was “a lot of life ahead of me,” he didn’t know where to go.
Olivia, on the other hand, has moved to Los Angeles after their divorce and is trying to embrace single life.
“When Ethan and I ended our relationship nine months ago, I was 25 and starting my life over,” she said in a confessional. “I just didn’t really know where to go and always wanted to live in California, so I moved to Los Angeles for a fresh start.”
Welcome to Plathville airs on TLC Tuesdays at 10pm ET.