Eight years after Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton announced their separation, the Crown alum is reflecting on the “painful” split. “I went through a very painful divorce," Bonham Carter, 56, said during the Tuesday, December 13, episode of the “Therapy Works” podcast. “It was a long-lasting thing. That's the other thing, it's not that finite.

Helena Bonham Carter has never been married. She and Tim Burton were together for 13 years but did not marry. They have two children, son Billy, 18, and daughter Nell, 14.

“I went through a very painful divorce," Bonham Carter, 56, said during the Tuesday, December 13, episode of the “Therapy Works” podcast. “It was a long-lasting thing. That's the other thing, it's not that finite. It never ends. Even if you divorce somebody, it's a kind of marriage if you have children with them.

It never ends," she said of grieving a breakup while reflecting on 2014 split with Tim Burton Helena Bonham Carter is reflecting on her "painful" breakup with director Tim Burton. "I wanted to wear something to indicate to people that I'm not my normal self," the actress, 56, said on the Therapy Works podcast of wanting to wear all black afterward.