Jaime Pressly Discusses Split From Dezi's Dad

Last November, My Name Is Earl's Jaime Pressly spilt from longtime boyfriend Eric Cubiche. The news shocked many, as just a year and a half earlier the two were the picture of bliss, welcoming son Dezi into the world and telling the press about how their relationship was reminiscent of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo's.  

But Pressly assures her fans that, while the split might have seemed surprising, it was anything but ugly. Unlike the post-baby partings of Madonna and Guy Ritchie (less than a year after David Banda's adoption was finalized) and Billy Crudup and Mary-Louise Parker (he left her for Claire Danes while she was 7-months along with their baby), she says her split from Cubiche was completely amicable.
 
In an interview with April's Redbook magazine, she explains that: "We both still love each other, and the most important thing is our son…we want to make sure he's happy and taken care of."

That's why they chose to end things sooner rather than later.

"I didn't want to wait until he was older and it affected him more," Pressly says, speaking from her own experience as a teenage child of divorce. "I was 14 when my parents split up, in hormone hell, and in my first year of high school…they weren't happy. But even if you know what needs to happen, you still don't want to go through it."

As for the reason behind her split with Cubiche, Pressly explains that it was work. Not hers, however, but his.

"When I was pregnant, Eric's job changed. Before, he was DJ Eric Cubiche on 100.3 The Beat. Then the radio station changed formats, and he left. He became a traveling DJ. So he was gone a lot. That's how part of the...separation started."

Now a free agent in the romantic sense, is Pressly living the lusty life of a single Hollywood starlet?

"No," she says. In fact, she hasn't even started dating yet. But there's one thing she knows she wants from a man once she does. He should be willing to express his love, not through money, but by "cooking me dinner or going to the grocery store."

 

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