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good guy. He said, “You’re

right. Thank you for telling

me that. I was getting

emotional and I think I’m

nervous about this whole

thing.”

On Conscious

Uncoupling

I think it’s fantastic! So

many of us emulate celeb-

rities, so when Gwyneth

Paltrow and Chris Martin

do something like that,

then you see them on

vacation together or at

their kid’s soccer game,

I think people go, “Hey,

I want to be like them. I

could do that too.”

On Turning

Down Clients

My whole character is

based on problem-solving

and conflict resolution.

There have been people

who’ve come to me,

celebrities or otherwise,

who I can tell don’t really

want to resolve conf licts.

you, because conf lict in my

world means payment. The

more you argue, the more

money we make, and I’ll

send you to one of those

people and you can go talk

to them about your unreal-

istic expectations.”

On Persuading

Couples Not

to Divorce

Pretty much every client I

see, I ask, “Have you been

to marriage counseling?” In

the high-net-worth world

of our firm, most of those

people already have been

in counseling or therapy.

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people purchase the plat-

form and initiate a divorce,

we ask, “Have you been to

some kind of counseling?”

Even if it’s not a fancy Bev-

erly Hills marriage, people

should at least try to be in

counseling; then, even if you

can’t work it out and stay

married, you can work it

out better in terms of being

able to work through the di-

vorce. So yes, almost every

client we have, I’ve asked if

there’s a way to reconcile.

On Her Advice for

Harry and Meghan

They might be feeling

amazing right now, being

out from under the thumb

of the family, but while

things are good is the

time to establish some

of the tools you need for

great communication and

conf lict resolution when

things in the future may

not be as good. Every re-

lationship, whether you’re

a royal, a celebrity or just

a normal person, is going

to run into problems, and

if you have the tools to

deal with those problems

by communicating and

connecting, you’ll be able

to [get] through it. 

Wasser doesn’t repre-

sent only celebs: Her

online program, It’s Over

Easy (divorce.itsovereasy

.com), offers an affordable

way to divorce, and she does

pro bono work with multiple

organizations. But her

Rolodex of A-list clients is

seriously impressive. Ryan

Reynolds, Christina Aguilera,

Ashton Kutcher, Johnny Depp

and Heidi Klum all hired her

for their high-profile divorces.

Marriage “is

not for me,

personally,”

says the

mom of two.

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