Boston Red Sox Pitcher John Lackey Divorcing Wife Battling Cancer

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Boston Red Sox pitcher John Lackey has filed to divorce his wife, Krista ... who is in the middle of battling breast cancer.

Lackey filed on August 30, according to court docs in Texas, claiming "the marriage has become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities." Krista and John got married in November, 2008.

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Comments

[billybuck]

12:15 PM on 10/03/2011

wow. what a beautiful woman and what a turkey. all the money in the world can't buy a person happiness. evidenced here.

[wayne the pain]

01:30 PM on 10/01/2011

Lackey is the biggest jerk alive! I watched him for several years when he played for the Angels. You could tell from body language and occasional comments about his teammates that he was a self centered creep! I was elated when he was traded and loved the fact he stunk up Boston! I hope he has a few more seasons like the last one, it couldn't happen to a more deserving big fellow from Texas!

[Ben Caplan]

01:03 PM on 10/01/2011

He must be a Newt Gingrich supporter. Newt was trying to impeach President Clinton for cheating on his wife and the same time that Newt was cheating on his own wife, who was dying of cancer at the time.

[feo]

11:25 AM on 09/29/2011

Who does he think he is, Newt Gingrich?

[MRB55]

03:12 AM on 09/28/2011

And the red socks are choking? Awwwwwwww

[Henrietta Ward]

02:35 AM on 09/28/2011

Must have been a John Edwards supporter.

[dolphinlove82]

02:33 PM on 09/27/2011

While it is a private matter and we don't know all the details, it is sad that he could stoop so low as to abandon her in her time of greatest need.

[chucknchar]

07:31 PM on 09/27/2011

The story could be in the details

[TrueNorth88]

01:04 PM on 09/27/2011

Wow. A lousy pitcher and a heel too.

[Tom Paige]

07:43 AM on 09/27/2011

She may have married him for who he was and what he had, but that still seems a little classless. My late wife was diagnosed with breast cancer 10 months after we were married. It changed nothing about how I felt about here. We had some up and down moments, but overall we acted as if she was going to live forever. Forever ended up being a marriage of 5 years 1 month and 5 days. She was 12 years younger than me and it should have lasted longer. They were the best years of my life and it's too bad she still isn't here.

[Jackee1054]

09:00 AM on 09/27/2011

@Tom - you are a sweet, stand up guy.

[june1964]

09:18 AM on 09/27/2011

wow...I'm sorry. This was a very touching post.

[billscaf]

06:47 AM on 09/27/2011

Look at the picture of the 2 of them. Does anyone realy think she would have given him the time of day let alone marry him if he was not a walking cash register?? Maybe he figured that out!!

[simpsonsimpmike]

07:53 AM on 09/27/2011

The world is full of gold diggers and baseball "Heroes" are no exception, they are fertile ground for women willing to live a trophy life.

[DallasDiva3]

08:02 AM on 09/27/2011

Do you think he would have given her the time of day if she were fat and unattractive, let alone marry her? He's no prize in the looks department so he was very lucky to get arm candy as attractive as she is.

[askido351]

12:37 PM on 09/27/2011

The arm candy bit is funny

[Gregg-O]

06:45 AM on 09/27/2011

Average looking sports figure files for divorce from his trophy wife when she REALLY need's his true support, but isn't a 'full' women in his eye's anymore....sad story , but really, 3yrs married...what do you expect. Do you really think these grown boy's , that play these games we so love, are real men?....Some ..yes...other's not so much. As we see in the headline's much to often.

[Randybostonterrier]

02:34 AM on 09/27/2011

I don't care why you get divorced but why do people divorce people when they are going through the most traumatic time of their lives fighting cancer? That is a little too cold for me.

[Charles Calthrop]

10:15 AM on 09/27/2011

I agree it's very cold, but a lot of these sorts of wives also divorce their husbands as soon as they are done earning massive paychecks - i.e. going through a very traumatic time in their lives. Given the difference in their looks, I can't imagine either of them were ignorant as to what the other was after.

[artbydmh]

10:42 AM on 09/27/2011

But there's a difference between retiring and possibly dying from cancer. She might ditch him when the paycheck stops...we don't know that. He's ditching her when she needs support the most...we DO know that.

[artstnmtn1]

11:49 PM on 09/26/2011

sounds like a personal problem and none of our biz.

[Gary Sawyer]

02:53 PM on 09/26/2011

Obviously the breast cancer issue is not his motivation for a divorce. However, I would hope he continues to help in whatever way he can to assist her during this difficult battle.

[ntr721]

01:11 PM on 09/27/2011

Yea Right.. No boobs no problem, He already said he intends to keep what he has.