No matter how long you've been expecting something, there are times when it finally hits you and the pain is unimaginably real. Heavily sedated, then, let's turn to a statement from Eddie Murphy and his wife Tracey Edmonds.
"After much consideration and discussion," it reads, "we have jointly decided that we will forgo having a legal ceremony as it is not necessary to define our relationship further."
But it so is. You see, Eddie is in fact splitting from the wife whom he married in Bora-Bora what seems like only a fortnight ago.
Oh ... right. It was only a fortnight ago.
What can I tell you? Sometimes you give a thing your best shot and you still grow apart. But I want you - the innocents caught up in all of this - to understand one thing. And that is that just because Eddie and Tracey stopped loving each other enough to get married anywhere other than a legally derecognised paradise, they will never, ever stop loving you. OK? All right, time for bed now. You can sleep with the light on.
