Chyler Leigh Reveals Split From Nathan West After 26 Years
Chyler Leigh said she and Nathan West quietly separated after more than 20 years of marriage, closing a relationship that began in 1999 and lasted through three children and a 2002 wedding. Leigh described the split as amicable and said they are coparenting.
The separation came up on the May 12 episode of the Books That Changed My Life podcast, where Leigh said the pair would have been together for 26 years this year. For a family of five, the change is less about a public breakup than a private reset around Noah, Taelyn and Anniston.
Leigh on the podcast
During the conversation with host Chris Collins, Leigh said, “I think getting to a point where my relationship with my ex had reached a point where it was just time,” and added, “It was time to let it go. Even after such a long time. We'd been together—it would be 26 years this year.” Those comments put a firm timeline on a split that had not been public until now.
She also said, “We're doing all the things that we can,” before explaining, “but just hit a point where it was like, ‘Okay, what you want and what I want aren't really lining up anymore.’” That is the practical detail here: this was not framed as a sudden break, but as a decision after a long mismatch in what each person wanted.
1999 to 2025
Leigh and West met during an audition for a WB pilot in 1999, when she was 16 and he was 20. They tied the knot in 2002, and the math now runs to more than two decades together before the separation was disclosed.
Leigh said the relationship had also been strained by family trauma that she and West had each experienced individually, and that their children were picking up on the tension. That puts the split in a more complicated light than a simple time-out: the public statement was gentle, but the explanation points to pressures that had already reached the home.
Coparenting Noah, Taelyn and Anniston
Leigh said the split is amicable and that she and West are coparenting their three children, Noah, Taelyn and Anniston. She had already shared a May 2025 Instagram post about Anniston’s 16th birthday celebration at Disney World, a reminder that the family was still appearing together publicly just days before the separation became known.
For readers tracking the family rather than the celebrity angle, the next step is simple: Leigh is signaling a shared-parenting arrangement, not a public fight. That makes the story less about a headline breakup than about how a long marriage unspools while three children stay at the center of it.
