Toni Collette and Husband Dave Galafassi Break Up After Nearly 20 Years of Marriage - E! NEWS

Why Toni Collette Thinks The Staircase Is "So Honest"

Toni Collette and Dave Galafassi are calling it quits connected their marriage.

The Staircase and the instrumentalist announced their breakup connected Dec. 7, sharing successful a associated statement posted to Toni's precocious reactivated Instagram page, "It is with grace and gratitude that we denote we are divorcing."

Calling it a "united" decision, the pair, who stock daughter Sage, 13, and son Arlo, 11, noted that they volition proceed to "respect and attraction for each other."

"Our kids are of paramount value to america and we volition proceed to thrive arsenic a family, albeit a antithetic shape," they added. "We're thankful for the abstraction and emotion you assistance america arsenic we germinate and determination done this modulation peacefully. Big thanks."

Toni and Dave, formerly a drummer for the indie stone band Gelbison, archetypal met successful 2002. They joined successful a Buddhist ceremonial connected January 11, 2003.

Hours earlier The Sixth Sense star posted the divorce statement, she reshared a cryptic punctuation from different relationship to her Instagram Stories, reading: "No substance what your existent circumstances are, if you tin ideate thing amended for yourself, you tin make it."