Papa John’s Former CEO Headed For Divorce After Latest Crazy Interview

The wife of former Papa John’s Pizza CEO John Schnatter has just filed for divorce after 32 years of marriage.

Identified as M. Annette Cox in court papers, Schnatter’s wife filed for divorce on Thursday, explaining that  their union was “irretrievably broken.” Court papers revealed the couple separated back in April of this year and had been married since April of 1987.

According to TMZ, Cox and Schnatter already have a property settlement agreement, and now, she just needs the judge to sign off on it. The two own several homes together, including million-dollar pads in Utah, Florida, and Kentucky, and they also have 2 kids. But since the children are adults, no child support issues will get in the way of the divorce.

Cox pointed out in her petition that she is self-employed and her husband is listed as unemployed, after being ousted from his own pizza company last year following his controversial use of the N-word.

In the meantime, Schnatter is reportedly worth an estimated $500 million even after his exit from the pizza company. However, in recent weeks, Schnatter has been giving interviews criticizing the state of his former empire, telling one reporter that he’s eaten 40 Papa John’s pizzas in 30 days to test the quality since he left.

He’s also suing the creative advertising firm, Laundry Service, and its parent company because he claims it leaked the audio that led to him losing his PJ’s gig. He said a “secretly-taped meeting led by Laundry Service in May 2018,” which resulted in the news story alleging he used a racial slur.

Schnatter consistently defended himself over the comments in that meeting, insisting they were taken out of context and used as an excuse to get rid of him. In fact, he claimed in his suit that the leak was a revenge job because he refused to pay Laundry Service a $6 million fee.