John Mulaney's ex Anna Marie Tendler says she had a 'psychological well being breakdown' amid divorce, however her canine saved her

• Anna Marie Tendler says she suffered a “extreme psychological well being breakdown” amid her divorce from John Mulaney.
• In an essay for Elle, she revealed she was hospitalized for despair and self-harm in January 2021.
• She mentioned her French bulldog Petunia was the explanation she lived by that darkish time.

In darkish instances, Anna Marie Tendler had a real finest pal — her French bulldog, Petunia.

In an essay for Elle memorializing her canine, who died in April, Tendler mirrored on their sturdy bond and the way it deepened throughout a disaster.

“Petunia and I moved to Connecticut in December 2020, within the wake of my extreme psychological well being breakdown and what gave the impression to be the upcoming finish of my marriage,” she wrote. “We fused much more deeply collectively in an attuned and completely symbiotic relationship. She by no means let me out of her sight.”

Tendler mentioned the canine gave her the “deepest type of love I had ever identified.”

“My psychological well being hinged wholly on my canine,” she wrote. “After I was hospitalized for despair, self-harm, and extreme suicidal ideation within the first two weeks of 2021, the docs requested me to make an inventory of my causes for residing. Petunia was the one and solely factor on that record.”

Tendler and comic John Mulaney married in 2014 and introduced their break up in Might 2021. The information got here after Mulaney made headlines in late 2020 for checking right into a rehab facility for dependancy amid a relapse.

“I’m heartbroken that John has determined to finish our marriage,” Tendler mentioned in an announcement on the time of the break up. “I want him assist and success as he continues his restoration.”

Days later, rumors that Mulaney was relationship actor Olivia Munn started circulating.

Then, in September 2021, Mulaney introduced on “Late Evening With Seth Meyers” that Munn was pregnant.

For the reason that divorce, Tendler has targeted her efforts on her artwork. In fall 2021, she confirmed her images sequence “Rooms within the First Home” on the Different Artwork Truthful in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. 

In her essay, Tendler described all of the life occasions she skilled with Petunia.

“She was my fixed by marriage, 4 strikes, graduate college, a profession change (or two), a psychological well being disaster, a divorce, and eventually a reinvention,” she wrote.

When Petunia’s well being points worsened — she had “coronary heart illness and a mind tumor or mind stem illness” — Tendler made the choice to facilitate her peaceable passing. 

“I promised her that I used to be okay and that I might be okay with out her; crushed, lonely, however okay,” Tendler wrote. “I thanked her for staying with me — for guarding me — till I used to be sturdy sufficient to outlive with out her.”