Rep. Lauren Boebert makes first appearance since filing for divorce
Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert made her first public appearance since announcing that she had filed for a divorce from her husband of 18 years.
The gun-toting conservative joined other members of the House GOP leadership for a press conference on the World Health Organization outside of the Capitol on Wednesday, just one day after she said she and her husband, Jayson, were splitting up.
Boebert, 36, and her husband were married in 2005 and share four children together. She claimed they were separating after nearly two decades due to “irreconcilable differences.”
“It is with a heavy weight on my heart that I have filed for divorce from my husband,” she said in a statement on Tuesday.
“I’ve always been faithful in my marriage, and I believe strongly in marriage, which makes this announcement that much more difficult,” Boebert said.
Rep. Lauren Boebert arrives for a House GOP leadership press conference on the World Health Organization at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on May 17, 2023. Rod Lamkey – CNP
Boebert with South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman during a House GOP leadership press conference at the US Capitol on Wednesday. Rod Lamkey – CNP
Jayson Boebert was apparently blindsided when he was served divorce papers last month, and set his dogs on the server, according to court documents obtained by The Post.
He was allegedly “drinking a tall glass of beer and cleaning a gun that was sitting on a table” when he was handed “dissolution of marriage” papers after the official filing on April 25, the server wrote in an affidavit.
“He started yelling and using profanities and told me that I was trespassing and that he was calling the Sheriff’s Office. I told him I was leaving the documents on the chair outside of the door, he closed the door then let the dogs out,” the affidavit says.
Lauren and Jayson Boebert met when she was 16 and have four children together. RepBoebert/Facebook
Boebert and her soon-to-be ex-husband have denied the allegations.
“The stories reported about the process server … are a complete lie,” Boebert tweeted on Wednesday. “Jayson doesn’t sit around cleaning guns and he certainly doesn’t drink beer out of a glass, just as much as he doesn’t drink Bud Light.”
She also claimed that footage from her home security camera “shows he didn’t ‘sick dogs’ on the process server.”
Boebert announced that she filed for divorce from her husband after nearly 20 years of marriage Tuesday. Rod Lamkey – CNP
In a text-message statement to the Daily Beast, Jayson said the dogs were never a threat to the server, and that he was “upset” by the unannounced visit.
“I did not know what I was being served for or if it was some crazy left-wing person coming to my house again. I was not drinking and I was not cleaning any gun,” he insisted.
“The divorce is sad, I did not expect this, I love her with every bit of my heart, she has been my soul mate and she is the mother of my Children,” he added.
According to Boebert’s book “My American Life,” she and Jayson met when she was 16 and working at a Burger King, and they “fell in love immediately.”
Source: New York Post
