Irretrievably broken — and neither one asking for anything back.
Todd Bridges walked into an Arizona courthouse on Tuesday and filed for divorce from his wife, Bettijo B. Hirschi, formally closing the chapter on a three-year marriage that had already been quietly unraveling for months.
Bridges, best known for playing Willis Jackson on the long-running sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, married Hirschi in September 2022 at a low-key Beverly Hills ceremony attended by around 70 guests. The two had met on a dating app roughly nine months before the wedding, moved quickly through courtship, and were engaged within six months of their first meeting.
The divorce filing lands about three months after reports first surfaced that the couple had separated. In the legal documents, Bridges describes the marriage as irretrievably broken — the kind of language courts use when both parties have accepted there is no path back. Neither Bridges nor Hirschi is seeking spousal support, and the couple had no children together.
The marriage lasted just under three and a half years from ceremony to courthouse. What began on a dating app with apparent momentum — engagement in six months, a wedding not long after — ended without the drawn-out financial disputes that often define celebrity divorces. The absence of a spousal support request from either side suggests the split, however painful, is at least proceeding without that particular friction.
Bridges has had a long and complicated public life since his Diff'rent Strokes days in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and this divorce adds another personal chapter to a story that has never been short on turns. For now, the proceedings move forward in Arizona, with no children and no support claims to complicate the legal path ahead.
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The marriage is irretrievably broken.— Todd Bridges, per divorce filing documents
The Hearth Conversation Another angle on the story
Why does it matter that neither of them asked for spousal support?
It signals a relatively clean break — no financial entanglement to drag the proceedings out. That's not always the case, especially when one partner has a higher public profile.
They met on a dating app and were engaged within six months. Does that timeline tell us anything?
It tells us the relationship moved fast. Whether that contributed to the breakdown is something only they know, but courts don't ask that question — irretrievably broken is enough.
Why file in Arizona specifically?
Presumably that's where Bridges was residing or had established legal domicile. Divorce jurisdiction follows where you live, not where you married.
They married in Beverly Hills but filed in Arizona. Does that strike you as significant?
It suggests at least one of them relocated after the wedding. Life moves, and so do people. The Beverly Hills ceremony was the beginning; Arizona is where the ending gets handled.
No children, no support requests — is there anything left to watch in this case?
Property division, if there's anything to divide. And sometimes these filings get contested even when they look straightforward at first. The next filings will tell us more.
What does this moment mean for Bridges personally, given everything he's been through publicly?
He's someone who has rebuilt his life more than once. This is another turn in a long road. The story doesn't end here.