Kevin Costner’s estranged spouse, Christine Baumgartner, reportedly claims the film star nonchalantly let their three youngsters know that they have been splitting up after 18 years of marriage.

“After a 24-year relationship, from his lodge room in Las Vegas, Kevin advised our three youngsters that we have been getting divorced over a 10-minute Zoom name with out me current,” the designer alleged in new court docket paperwork obtained by Folks Wednesday.

“I’m nonetheless confused by his motivation to do that by way of a really brief Zoom session, particularly since he was planning on being dwelling 5 days later. He additionally might have simply come dwelling from Las Vegas to have the dialog in individual.”

Baumgartner, 49, claimed she advised Costner, 69, previous to him breaking the divorce information to their children that she needed to inform them “in individual and collectively” as their youngsters’s welfare has all the time been her “highest precedence.”

She added that she feared the youngsters would be taught concerning the break up from an “exterior supply.”

Baumgartner then alleged, per Folks, that Costner “disregarded my proposal to do what I felt was proper based mostly on analysis and my relationship with the youngsters.”

“As a substitute, he insisted that he had the correct to inform them that we have been getting divorced ‘first’ and inform them privately ‘with out me current,’” she additional claimed within the docs.

Costner’s attorneys couldn’t instantly be reached for touch upon Baumgartner’s newest allegations.

Nonetheless, a supply near the “Yellowstone” star advised Folks that the actor’s ex filed for divorce in Might whereas he was filming on location, and defined that he “FaceTimes on a regular basis with the children when he’s away working.”

Baumgartner’s new claims are the newest in what seems to be an more and more hostile divorce between the previous couple.

The purse designer additionally requested the court docket just lately to award her $248,000 a month in little one help for her three children with Costner: Cayden Wyatt, 16, Hayes Logan, 14, and Grace Avery, 13.

She argued that the funds she is looking for are “lower than the quantity wanted to keep up the youngsters of their accustomed life-style.”

Because of Baumgartner’s request, Costner’s monetary data for 2022 was launched, regardless of his needs. The “Bodyguard” star had a web earnings that was reportedly $7,595,520 after taxes final 12 months.

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Costner beforehand advised the choose he needed to maintain his financial institution information non-public out of worry that “irreparable hurt” might be performed to him by fraudsters, burglars and “undesirable and embarrassing international media consideration.”

Baumgartner was the one to finish the wedding after practically 20 years, citing “irreconcilable variations” on the time.

Web page Six solely discovered in Might that Costner was blindsided by the submitting.

A supply beforehand advised us the “Dances with Wolves” star was “shocked,” including that he discovered the separation “disappointing” since he nonetheless “loves [Baumgartner] and he loves his youngsters.”

The insider additionally denied that infidelity was behind the divorce — regardless of Costner’s previous dishonest scandal — and reaffirmed there was “no subject of dishonest in any respect” between him and Baumgartner.