Metallica frontman James Hetfield filed for divorce, only ‘The Memory Remains’

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James Hetfield and his wife Francesca Hetfield are getting a divorce after James filed for it in Colorado earlier this year, but everything was hush-hush so it did not become a media circus.

It was an instant match

The couple met as Francesca was designing stage costumes for the band, and they instantly hit it off, they continued their five-year relationship and then got married in 1997.

They have three children

They also have three children together Cali, who is 24, Marcella age 20, and son Castor, who is now 22.

It seems that both found an amicable way to keep the divorce civil for the sake of their children.

She helped him get better

He treasures her as a life partner but sometimes things don’t work out. Hetfield told Joe Rogan that Francesca helped him control his alcohol and anger issues.

He said that “Fear was a big motivator in that for me. Losing my family, was the thing that scared me so much, that was the bottom I hit, that my family is going to go away because of the behaviors that I brought home from the road. I got kicked out of my house by my wife, I was living on my own somewhere, I did not want that.”

She made him go to therapy

He continued “she kicked my ass right out of the house and that scared the s-t out of me. She said, ‘Hey, you’re not just going to the therapist now and talking about this, you’ve got to go somewhere and sort this s-t out,’ so that’s what I did.”

He wanted to make it work since he came from a troubled childhood where his father abandoned him and his brother, and their mom passed away at a very young age.

He wanted to make it work but did not happen

He concluded “Maybe as part of my upbringing, my family kind of disintegrated when I was a kid,” he opened up “Father left, mother passed away, had to live with my brother, and then kind of just, where did my stuff go? It just kind of floated away, and I do not want that happening. No matter what’s going on, we’re going to talk this stuff out, and make it work.”