The star of the franchise “X-Men” James McAvoy made the decision to leave my wife. After nine years of marriage, the actor Anne-Marie Duff has filed for divorce.

An official statement from the couple came in last weekend.

“It is with great sadness that we came to the decision to divorce, — it is spoken in their joint statement to the press. – We enter this new phase of our lives with friendship, love and respect each other and be together to take care of our son. Please respect the right to privacy of us and our child during this difficult time”.

The reason for the couple’s split, according to rumors, was the passion of an actor colleague on the set of “X-men” 24-year-old performer of the role of “Storm” Alexandra Shipp (previously this role belonged to Halle berry).

“It’s for anybody not a secret, — said the informant. James quite openly acted with other actors, about their relationship, everyone knew, as about the fact that his marriage is already some time exists only on paper. However, while gossip was not able to release beyond the film set.”

We will remind, the wife of McAvoy was older than him by 9 years. 37-year-old James, and 45-year-old Duff met on the set of the show “Shameless” in 2004.

Two years later the actors were married, and in 2011 for the first time became parents to a son named Brendan.