Josh Duhamel is reflecting on his relationship with ex-wife Fergie — and how it differs from his romance with wife Audra Mari.
“Fergie is also very wholesome, believe it or not. Especially since she sort of stepped away from it all,” Duhamel, 53, said on the Monday, March 2, episode of “The Skinny Confidential” podcast. “She’s a great mom. Very kind, very nonconfrontational, thank God. We have a good relationship. She and Audra have a great relationship.”
“We’re just very different,” he continued. “Fergie and I, we just have different views of the world. And that’s OK, you know. But I have no regrets about that. We have a beautiful son. But they’re just very different in a lot of ways. But also, both really great women. They really are.”
Duhamel and Fergie (real name Stacy Ann Ferguson) were first linked in 2004. The pair got engaged in 2007 before tying the knot in Malibu in 2009. Duhamel and Fergie welcomed son Axl in 2013.
The twosome announced their split in 2017 after eight years of marriage, sharing in a statement to Us Weekly that they had “absolute love and respect” for each other.
“We decided to separate as a couple earlier this year,” they told Us that September. “To give our family the best opportunity to adjust, we wanted to keep this a private matter before sharing it with the public. We are and will always be united in our support of each other and our family.”
One month after news of their split broke, Fergie got emotional about their relationship. “It wasn’t my plan. I wanted to stay married forever,” she said on The Wendy Williams Show in October 2017. “I love Josh. He’s the father of my child.”
Duhamel and Fergie finalized their divorce in 2019. That same year, Duhamel became linked to Mari. The couple wed at Olivet Lutheran Church in Fargo, North Dakota, in 2022 and welcomed son Shepherd in 2024.
Josh Duhamel and ex Fergie’s friendly coparenting relationship extends to his pregnant wife, Audra Mari. “Thankfully Fergie’s an amazing woman, she really is,” Duhamel, 50, gushed during the Thursday, September 14, episode of SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show. “She’s taken Audra in. It could be much worse. That’s the thing, you never know how these […]
Years later, Duhamel gave a glimpse of his coparenting dynamic with Fergie and shared that there is “very little conflict” between the exes. Duhamel explained that he traded in Hollywood for an off-the-grid home in Minnesota, which he hopes his sons appreciate.
“My son is going to have memories of this place forever,” he told Parade in 2025. “He’s not on his iPad when he’s out there. He’s out there in the boat with me, or he’s playing soccer on the beach, or he’s out there in the woods doing whatever I’m doing. And then I have a little baby who’s going to experience the same thing. Someday, I hope to pass this on to them [so] they’re able to share it with their kids. It’s really important to me that they have this. It’s not just about having all the amenities and all the luxuries that we become so used to. It’s really about family. It’s about legacy.”
