When it was first announced that Chris Rock and his wife of 19 years, Malaak Compton-Rock, had split, it sounded like things might be as amicable as these things ever can be. It is a marriage that has had issues in the past, with the couple splitting up once before about eight years ago. Compton-Rock issued a kind of weird statement that referenced her work while confirming the split, then we heard she has been keeping the couple's two daughters from Rock and, well, this is starting to sound pretty messy.
Rock reportedly filed official documents in a New Jersey court to dissolve the marriage last Tuesday, Dec. 23, and according to a report by TMZ it matters to him that people know it was his decision to pull the plug on the relationship. He is also pushing for joint custody while Compton-Rock is reportedly looking for sole custody of their children.
Sources close to Rock have said that he is a great and an involved father, so much so that even while promoting his current movie, Top Five, his work schedule had to be built around taking his daughters to school and then picking them up later in the day. That hardly sounds like the kind of guy you cut out of your kids's lives, and it kind of feels like she is trying to use the kids as a way to punish Rock, doesn't it?
Almost as soon as it was confirmed that the couple had split, Rock was romantically linked to his Top Five costar, Rosario Dawson, someone he has reportedly been friends with for years. Rock's publicist shot down the notion and has insisted that there is no third party involved in this divorce.
Do you think Rock and Dawson's friendship has ticked off Compton-Rock enough to try and use their kids as a way to hurt him? Tell us your thoughts on this split in the comments below. How messy do you think this will get?
