Elizabeth Vargas told ABC News’ Diane Sawyer that her drinking took a toll on her marriage with singer-songwriter Marc Cohn.
“It made all the real problems we needed to discuss and work through frivolous in comparison,” Vargas said. “You know, ‘What do you want to talk about? Why don’t you ask me about how my day is’ or ‘Why don’t you support me more?’ when [it’s] ‘why are you drinking two bottles of chardonnay every night.” Vargas said her addiction changed their relationship and what they had to focus on “in a pretty dramatic and destructive way.”
But while their relationship hit a rocky patch, it was during Vargas’ third stint in rehab that it would all come crashing down. After returning from rehab, Vargas sat down with “Good Morning America” anchor George Stephanopoulos to openly speak about her addiction. Since Cohn was still touring, Vargas had yet to see her husband and had no idea that she would soon be faced with divorce papers. While Vargas had been in rehab, Cohn had hired a lawyer and begun the divorce filings all without her knowledge. Vargas said, “It was brutally difficult. I think anyone can imagine what that felt like,” per People. But little did Vargas know, simply filing for divorce wasn’t the worst of it.
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