Former Prime Gear presenter Richard Hammond has spoken for the primary time about his divorce from spouse Mindy.

Richard Hammond has damaged his silence about his divorce, confirming that he and his spouse Mindy are parting methods after 23 years of marriage.

The previous Prime Gear host, aged 55, opened up concerning the difficult previous yr, which noticed not solely the tip of his marriage but in addition the conclusion of his newest tv programme.

Whereas acknowledging that “issues change,” Richard drew a parallel between the tip of his marriage and his infamous automobile crash in 2006, an incident that left him in a coma for 2 weeks and resulted in mind accidents.

Richard conceded that there have been similarities between these troublesome durations in his life. He stated: “No matter occurs to us, we will determine. Possibly not within the second. I did not determine, because the automobile was going over at 320mph ‘I will make this a very good factor’, however there got here a second once I thought, ‘proper, my response to that is going to be optimistic.”

In an interview with the Each day Mail, he continued: “That is what it’s important to do. Effectively, it is what I do.”

His feedback come eight months after the couple introduced their separation.

On the time, they launched a joint assertion, reviews the Mirror.

The assertion learn: “Our marriage is coming to an finish, however we have had a tremendous 28 years collectively and two unimaginable daughters… We are going to all the time be in one another’s lives and are happy with the household we created.”

In Richard’s new collection, Richard Hammond’s Workshop, he instantly addresses his cut up. He informs viewers {that a} “slight change in my circumstances” means he has relocated.

“I prefer it. It is obtained superb views,” he stated. “A spot to maintain a few of my vehicles and bikes and better of all it is nearer to the workshop. I am making an attempt to place a silver lining on this. It has been a tricky few years, but it surely’s not all dangerous.”

He confessed to the publication that he nonetheless cannot envisage himself in one other relationship at this stage.

He acknowledged he has additionally been too occupied with filming to have thought of it.

Richard and Mindy’s divorce occurred throughout a interval when he additionally misplaced his father to most cancers on the age of 80.

He handed away in October final yr in a hospice.

The presenter saved his dad Alan’s loss of life non-public till after New Yr.

And he confesses he typically nonetheless forgets his father is not there anymore.

“It is the strangest factor,” he stated. “One thing might be taking place and I’ll suppose, “I need to go and inform dad. Then I realise, ‘Oh. I can not’. My brothers really feel the identical factor.”

His remarks mirror what he had beforehand revealed about how, while the sorrow of shedding his father was overwhelming, it typically remained a delicate presence in on a regular basis life.

Talking on his podcast earlier this yr, he stated: “When it hits me is once I’m pottering about doing one thing typically inconsequential, or fascinated about one thing large, my mind has already shaped the thought, ‘oh, I need to inform dad’ and I solely type of get…

“You already know whenever you’re turning a thought into language? So the thought is there, after which I kind it into phrases so I can talk to myself and to the world, and it will get so far as, ‘oh I need to inform… oh,’ and it is not an enormous crashing emotion, but it surely’s a particular sense, it is a reminder, and that is the mind doing what you simply described.”