Robin Thicke believes he’s come out “stronger” in the eleven years following his divorce from actress Paula Patton.
The R&B singer reflected on his first marriage on the Tuesday (March 17) episode of The Breakfast Club and revealed how he got out of post-divorce depression. Thicke and Paula divorced in 2015 after ten years of marriage and share a fifteen-year-old son, Julian Fuego. The “Lost Without U” artist remarried last year to model April Love Geary, with whom he shares three children.
Thicke admitted in the interview that his divorce from Patton was similar to the split between his parents, late entertainer Alan Thicke and Gloria Loring. The former spouses were married from 1970 to 1984.
“My relationship with Paula didn't work, but our son is thriving and doing great. She's an incredible mom. I’ve tried to be an incredible dad,” Thicke said. “And so now I don't want to do that again, especially with three kids.”
“You learn that that there's some things I could have done better and some things were just meant to be,” Thicke continued. “I do love my life and I love that I have three extra kids.”
The musician also explained that he went through a five-year journey of multiple issues, including the death of his father in 2016, being sued for copyright infringement over his 2013 hit “Blurred Lines,” and the death of his mentor Andre Harrell in 2020.
“I almost lost hope,” he recalled. “I almost gave up. And it was looking into my kids' faces every day and saying, This is worth being your very best for them.”
Patton briefly spoke on her divorce from Thicke during a 2025 visit to The Morning Hustle.
"Sometimes you just get to a place where you’re just not supposed to be together anymore, but we had a lot of great times together," the actress said around the ten-minute mark below. "I met that man when I was fifteen years old and we had a great love affair and we have an incredible son."
She added, "In my healing, you have to get to the place where you can forgive and also forgive yourself and then also only look for the love."