David Boreanaz has been delighting TV fans as Jason Hayes, aka Bravo 1, on the hit TV series SEAL Team for five years and counting.
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Although the actor is best known for his role on the naval drama and his previous role as Angel on the teen drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer, his personal life made headlines in 2011 when it was revealed that he had been having an affair. However, David and his wife Jaime Bergmann are still together more than a decade later.
In 2010, while David was starring in the TV series Bones, he admitted that he had been unfaithful to his second wife, Jaime. He was first married in 1997 to Ingrid Quinn, but things didn’t work out and they split two years later. He and Jaime – who was pregnant with their second child at the time of the affair – have been married since 2001.
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While the actor remained tight-lipped about the identity of his mistress, reports and photos later emerged that the woman was Rachel Uchitel, a nightclub manager who was also involved in Tiger Woods’ cheating scandal.
Reports and photos suggested that the woman David had an affair with was Rachel Uchitel
However, David has since maintained that the affair ultimately brought him and his wife closer together. Shortly after David was forced to admit to his affair (his ex threatened to contact the media), the couple entered marriage counselling to work through their issues.
And speaking a year after the incident in 2011, the 53-year-old claimed the pair had successfully reconciled after dealing with the trauma of the cheating.
“[It became] a bonding experience, long-term. In something as sacred as marriage, you find yourself not being together at some point for reasons that are not clear, which can be devastating,” the actor told TV Week at the time.
“There can be some demon that comes along and overpowers you. Do I believe in giving up? No, I don’t. I’m a fighter. I’m a lover.”
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Jaime herself said she was eager to try to mend their relationship but admitted she was “still angry” and “still hurt.” “It took a crisis, it took an infidelity for us to get out of that situation and work for what we wanted,” she told People. “We did the best we could. That was all we could do.”
The couple married in November 2001, just nine months after they met at a Valentine’s Day party at the Playboy Mansion, where Jaime was a Playboy model. The couple’s children, Jaden and Bella, are now 20 and 13.
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