Grammy winner Toni Braxton has finalized her divorce from husband Keri Lewis.
The 42-year-old singer has formally finished her 12-years union with the daddy of her 2 sons.
'The couple has had AN amicable split and can still each be actively concerned in raising their 2 sons, 11-year-old Denim and 10-year-old Diezel,' her advocator aforementioned during a statement.
People.com according the official divorce news concerning the couple World Health Organization tied the knot back in 1998.
The Unbreak My Heart performing artist admitted aforementioned in her VH1 Behind the Music special last October that the split with Lewis in 2009 took a toll on her.
'I had to work out a thought for my life that had nothing to try and do with him,' she said.
'I was angry with everyone. i could not believe this was happening to American state. I felt that i used to be an individual addressing plenty of struggles and here comes another one.'
The singer has endured bother times in recent years.
In 2010 she was diagnosed with lupus whereas she has had to battle money issues, filing for bankruptcy doubly.
She recently settled a bankruptcy case once claiming she had run up debts of between $10million and $50million.
The 45-year-old, World Health Organization filed for Chapter seven in 2010, in agreement earlier this month to pay $150,000 to settle the case, per TMZ.
The singer antecedently filed for bankruptcy in 1998 for debts of $3.9million.
When she filed for bankruptcy the primary time, she aforementioned the extremely publicized case had tutored her a lesson which she after modified her business strategy.
'I learned that I had to believe myself and not simply to be snug with the opinions of others,' she told Ebony Magazine in 2000.
'I'm simply additional in control; I dot the I's and cross the T's ... I settle everything.'
At the time critics darned Braxton's erratic behaviour and predilection for breaking appointments for plunging her into debt, while others aforementioned her high-priced tastes (600-thread-count bedsheets and jewelry from navigator and Louis Comfort Tiffany & Co.) were the wrongdoer.
