Vanessa Williams dropped some big news on Wednesday: she is enjoying life as a single woman these days.
The Ugly Betty star, 61, revealed that she quietly and amicably ended her marriage to Jim Skrip in 2021.
The former couple met on a cruise of the Nile River in Egypt and married in Buffalo, New York on the 4th of July, 2015.
‘I’m doing what I love, and I’m in love with life,’ she told People when asked if she’s currently in love.
‘There is not one person that I’m in love with, but I’m in love with everybody.’
When Vanessa met Jim, she wasn’t looking for anything.
The tour guide on their Nile River cruise thought the two of them might hit it off.
‘I made the first move — he would never have approached me because I was with my daughter,’ she told the outlet.
‘He happened to be traveling alone and happened to know who I was but wasn’t a super fan,’ she told Madame Noire in 2015.
‘There was an immediate attraction,’ the former Miss America said, adding that they had a long, three-hour dinner.
‘We had so much in common. It was obviously meant to be!’ she told People in 2015.
Williams was previously married to Roman Hervey II from 1987 to 1997. The couple have three children, Melania, 37, Jillian, 35, and Devin, 31.
The Desperate Housewives star was also married to former Los Angeles Lakers star Rick Fox from 1999 to 2004. They share daughter Sasha, 24.
Vanessa is currently starring as Miranda Priestly in the London stage adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada.
Williams was the first Black woman to be crowned Miss America in 1984. She was 20-years-old at the time and her reign was rocked by a nude photo scandal when photos she’d taken privately had been sold and published in Penthouse magazine.
She has a new perspective on that whirlwind time in her life now, 40 years later.
‘I look back at my 19-to 20-year-old self and think, “Oh my God you were so naive, so trusting, so vulnerable,”‘ she explained to People.
‘In your mind you think, “I’m old, I know what I’m doing.” I give myself grace now, but as a young adult, I beat myself up, like “I should have known better.”‘