Robin Thicke says he’s grown “stronger” in the eleven years since his split from actress Paula Patton.
Speaking on the Tuesday (March 17) episode of The Breakfast Club, the R&B singer opened up about his first marriage and how he managed to pull himself out of post-divorce depression. Thicke and Paula ended their marriage in 2015 after ten years together, and they share a 15-year-old son, Julian Fuego. The “Lost Without U” singer tied the knot again last year with model April Love Geary, and the couple now have three children together.
During the conversation, Thicke also noted that his divorce from Patton mirrored the separation between his parents, the late entertainer Alan Thicke and Gloria Loring, who were married from 1970 to 1984.
“My relationship with Paula didn’t work, but our son is thriving and doing great. She’s an incredible mom. I’ve tried to be an incredible dad,” Thicke shared. “And so now I don’t want to do that again, especially with three kids.”
“You learn that that there’s some things I could have done better and some things were just meant to be,” Thicke continued. “I do love my life and I love that I have three extra kids.”
The singer also opened up about a challenging five-year period marked by several personal struggles, including the loss of his father in 2016, a copyright lawsuit over his 2013 hit “Blurred Lines,” and the passing of his mentor Andre Harrell in 2020.
“I almost lost hope,” he recalled. “I almost gave up. And it was looking into my kids’ faces every day and saying, This is worth being your very best for them.”
Patton also touched briefly on her split from Thicke during a 2025 appearance on The Morning Hustle.
“Sometimes you just get to a place where you’re just not supposed to be together anymore, but we had a lot of great times together,” the actress said around the ten-minute mark below. “I met that man when I was fifteen years old and we had a great love affair and we have an incredible son.”
She added, “In my healing, you have to get to the place where you can forgive and also forgive yourself and then also only look for the love.”
