Jessica Alba & Cash Warren Shocking Split

Months before news broke that Jessica Alba and Cash Warren were calling it quits after 17 years of marriage, the Honey actress opened up about their union in a candid interview. “You become roommates,” she told podcast host Katherine Schwarzenegger. “You’re just going through the motions, the responsibilities.

It’s a lot of checking the boxes.” The 43-year-old also allowed that parenting daughters Honor, 16, Haven, 13, and 7-year-old son Hayes also took a toll on her relationship to entrepreneur Cash, 45. “I think that he probably gets the short end of the stick.”

For weeks, the pair, who tied the knot in 2008, four years after meeting on the set of Fantastic Four, have been dogged by rumors of a split, with each appearing in public without their rings. But over the holidays, the founder of the $1 billion-valued Honest Company posted happy-family shots, seeming to counter the talk.

But an insider tells Star the marriage was already over. “They stuck it out and made compromises, though it became clear they needed to rip off the Band-Aid and move on.” Now, says the insider, they will have to divide their fortune. “The last thing they want is to expose the kids to tension and upheaval,” says the insider. “They have a lot to figure out.”