Jen Hatmaker knew there was no going back when she discovered her husband was having an affair — in the middle of the night. The HGTV star was married to her now ex-husband Brandon Hatmaker for almost 30 years, from 1993 to 2020, and the former couple welcomed five children together. However, everything came to an end one night, when at 2:30a.m., she woke up to him whispering on the phone to another woman.

Recently speaking on The Jamie Kern Lima Show podcast in honor of the release of her memoir, Awake, which covers the painful collapse of her marriage, Jen, 51, recalled of the moment she realized her husband was cheating on her: "Instinctively, I knew this marriage is over, and this is so hard to say, but I had to get to it."

© Facebook Jen was married to Brandon for 26 years

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