Calling it quits.
Candice Accola
and
Joe King
‘s divorce news comes after their followers started to question
whether they had parted ways.
Following weeks of speculation,
Us Weekly
broke the news on Tuesday, May 24, that Accola, 35, filed for divorce from King, 41, one month prior. The pair, who celebrated seven years of marriage in late 2021,
pulled the plug on their marriage three months before
the legal petition.
Accola and King
started dating shortly after they met at a Super Bowl event
in 2012. The musician popped the question during the pair’s trip to Florence, Italy, one year later. “The engagement was a complete surprise,” the actress told
Us
in June 2013. “It was perfect and special and just for us.”
The duo later
tied the knot in an elaborate New Orleans ceremony
with several of Accola’s
The Vampire Diaries
costars in attendance. “Officially Mr. and Mrs. King! Best night ever!” the CW star captioned a compilation of Instagram photos from her October 2014 nuptials.
In 2015, Accola and King confirmed
that they were expecting their first child together
. The Fray band member also shares
daughters Elise and Ava with ex-wife
Julie King
.
The major milestone was also written
into the script for Accola’s character Caroline Forbes on
The Vampire Diaries
. Ahead of the story line shift, her costar
Michael Malarkey
revealed that
he spoiled her pregnancy news
during a table read.
“I ruined the surprise. I didn’t know!” the actor, who played Enzo, 38, told
Us
in October 2015. “She was like, ‘Alright, before we start guys, I have an announcement to make.’ And I was like, ‘You’re f?king pregnant!’ She was like, ‘Uh, yeah. Yeah, I’m pregnant.'”
Accola and Joe
went on to welcome daughter Florence
in January 2016. They
expanded their family again with their second daughter
, Josephine, four years later. “Last week our baby girl flew into the world and into our hearts,” the
Juno
star shared via Instagram in December 2020. “We love you Josephine June King! 12/1/20.”
Ahead of their little one’s first birthday, Accola penned an essay about realizing that
she needed help in the first few months after giving birth
again.
“I was living in quarantine due to the ongoing global pandemic, with two teenagers doing distance learning, a 5-year-old begging for a playmate, a dog begging for a walk, and a newborn baby who was having trouble sleeping because she only poops once a week (apparently it’s a thing). Needless to say, as a parent, and as partner, I was not the best version of myself,” she wrote for
SheKnows
in May 2021. “We needed sleep. I wanted help.”
She continued: “Once I was able to admit that I needed help, it felt like the pressure I’d put on myself to ‘do it all’ dissipated. As my body continued to heal, and my hormones began to regulate, I continued to feel stronger and more capable as a mother for all of our children.”
The following year,
Us
confirmed that Accola
had filed for divorce due to “irreconcilable differences.”
Scroll down for all the signs that hinted at Accola and King’s split: