Sylvester Stallone says his brief split from wife Jennifer Flavin was 'a very tumultuous time' - Yahoo Entertainment

Sylvester Stallone opened up astir his marriage, fatherhood and authorities successful a revealing caller interview.

During a speech with the Sunday Times, the Rocky star, 76, spoke openly astir his divided from woman Jennifer Flavin, which occurred erstwhile she near him backmost successful August and filed for divorce aft 25 years of marriage. However, the mates reconciled the adjacent month.

“Let’s conscionable accidental that it was a precise tumultuous time,” Stallone explained. “There was a reawakening of what was much invaluable than anything, which is my emotion for my family. It takes precedence implicit my enactment and that was a hard acquisition to learn.”

Upon their reconciliation, a spokesperson for the mates told Page Six, "They decided to conscionable backmost up astatine home, wherever they talked and were capable to enactment retired their differences. They are some highly happy."

The mates stock 3 daughters. Looking backmost connected his earlier days of parenting, Stallone — who besides has 2 sons, including Sage, who died successful 2012 — expressed his heavy remorse for being an absentee begetter who was wholly focused connected his movie career.

“I didn’t wage capable attraction erstwhile they were increasing up,” Stallone admitted. “I was truthful career-oriented and present I go, ‘OK, I don’t person that overmuch runway up up and I privation to commencement asking them astir their lives.’ I inquire them astir their time and they started astatine archetypal a small monosyllabic. Then I heard 1 say, ‘I was conscionable reasoning astir you.’ Oh my God. I’ve ne'er heard that earlier successful my life. When a girl knows you care, she’s determination forever.”

Stallone besides revealed however helium came to recognize politics, recognizing that helium was often assumed to beryllium a subordinate of the Republican Party, contempt voting for some parties astatine times. That relation with Republicans came mostly from the patriotic constituent of presumption of his films.

“I didn’t adjacent cognize what a Republican oregon a Democrat was until I was 30 years old,” Stallone shared. “I truly didn’t until I went to Hollywood. I didn’t cognize wrapping myself successful a emblem successful Rocky would propulsion down the gauntlet.”

While his hugely palmy Rambo franchise instantly associated him with subject skills and firearms knowledge, the histrion and manager says helium has mixed feelings astir definite aspects of weapon control, including the popularity of automatic weapons.

“I don’t spot a intent successful hunting with a 40-round magazine,” helium said. “If you can’t deed thing successful 5 shots, past you’re not a precise bully hunter. To beryllium capable to bargain a limb that I tin alteration successful 1 2nd to automatic? I don’t spot it. You can’t instrumentality guns away, they’ve been ingrained for 250 years, but you person to instrumentality the irresponsibility retired of it.”