Abbott Elementary’s Lisa Ann Walter on Her Friendship with Her Ex-Husband 24 Years After He Came Out to Her

Although their romantic relationship was not meant to be, Lisa Ann Walter still cherishes her relationship with her first husband.

As part of an essay written for cosmopolitanwith “Sex After 60” special digital edition, the Abbott Elementary School star opened up about her many trials and tribulations through love – including an unexpected upheaval in her first marriage. But she started by thinking about where she is right now with dating.

“Filling in a new partner in the last 60 years can be challenging and that’s one of the reasons I love my life the way it is,” Walter wrote. “I have great friends who have been through it all: two kids, a divorce when I was 36, two more kids, another divorce when I was 42 and I got sober after that. Even though I was hurt in love and how free I am for a minute now, I think I’m finally ready to commit to the right guy again — with the right accent.”

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Opening up about how her “most important relationships” these days are with her best friends, mentioning her The parent trap costar Elaine Hendrix and her Strong medicine costar Rosa Blasi. She also spoke highly of her relationship with ex Sam Baum.

“We divorced because he walked out on me,” she recalled. “I didn’t want to be in a relationship with someone who wanted something I couldn’t possibly provide.”

Walter and Baum divorced in 1999. They are the parents of daughter Delia and son Jordan. Despite breaking up, they’re still as close as ever, with Walter saying: “Sam comes over every weekend and when he was leaving the other day he said, ‘Hi, my kind of woman!’ I think my kids would love it A trap for parents us and bring us back together. We are not sexual, yet my relationship with him fulfills many needs.”

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However, Walter noted that her second husband “isn’t quite as nice.” The former have twins Simon and Spencer.

“I joke that I have two ex-husbands. The first was a lovely Jew, and it turned out we had too much in common – he also liked men. The second was a cheater, which isn’t technically a religion, but he practiced it like it was,” she explained. .

“After two husbands, my body started to change in a way that I wasn’t supposed to have a baby and I wasn’t supposed to be in a sexual relationship. My primary relationships became the ones that fed me in all the other ways,” she continued. “But there comes a point when you’re busy with your life — raising all these kids, putting my twins through college, taking care of all my friendships, doing all my charity work, running my SAG-AFTRA service union — and you’re like, ‘I’m fired up.'”

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As for the future of her life, the actress is ready to meet someone new.

“It’s easy to get to a place where you’re like, ‘You know what? I don’t need a relationship, so I’m not going to get involved at all,'” she said. “I would absolutely be open to meeting someone and having a meaningful relationship with them — I just don’t need relationships anymore, which is interesting. I don’t need it financially or socially, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want it.”

Although Walter has yet to find the right romantic partner for her, she previously spoke to PEOPLE about how Hendrix, 53, is her “life partner.”

“She was just the person I called,” Walter said. “Everyone has a person they check everything with in their life. And Elaine is that for me.”

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Abbott Elementary School returns for its third season on February 7th at 9pm ET on ABC.

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