Heiress says ex refused to give their daughter a bedroom after divorce
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Belle Burden almost misplaced the whole lot in a dramatic divorcehowever for her, the toughest half was the fallout her kids confronted.
Burden, an heiress who shared the story of her break up from hedge fund government Henry Davis in her guide, “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage,” made a latest look on Molly Sims’ podcast, “Lipstick on the Rim,” the place she spoke about simply what number of her three children had been affected by her ex-husband’s actions.
Two of the youngsters weren’t as instantly affected by the aftermath of the divorce — their oldest was staying with pals, and their center little one was in boarding faculty — however their youngest, Burden mentioned, “really wanted a bedroom” at her father’s new house.
Belle Burden and Henry Davis married in 1999. In March 2020, they had been quarantining with their kids in their dwelling on Martha’s Vineyard when she discovered he was having an affair, and he instructed her he wished a divorce. (Patrick McMullan through Getty Images)
“She was sending him links on Pottery Barn to her room,” Burden defined of their daughter, who was 12 on the time. “And he just really held firm about he was done with that stage of his life where he would parent a child in that way, with homework and dinners and all that kind of stuff.”
As she recounted in her memoirDavis instructed her that he wished a divorce after she found he’d been having an affair. They’d been married for 20 years. He ultimately moved into a two-bedroom house, then turned his spare bedroom into a dwelling workplace.
“That’s been the hardest part of this, and the most lasting part,” Burden admitted.
When Sims and her co-host, Emese Gormley, expressed disbelief at Davis’ election, Burden added, “I should be clear that it’s not a circumstance where he moved across the country and had a whole new family. He lives blocks away from us. He keeps in touch with the kids. He’s very kind and sweet with them. But he was very clear that he was not going to do the day-to-day, apply to college, all that kind of thing. And that really was like a switch going off.”
In her guide, Burden defined that when their kids had been younger, she devoted all her time and vitality to elevating them whereas Davis targeted on his profession, usually joking, “I don’t do bath, bed or homework.” While he did not cope with the each day work of parentinghe did listen to them, she wrote, taking them on particular outings and journeys often.
Burden launched her guide, “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage,” in January 2026. (Belle Burden/Instagram)
But in one of many conversations they’d shortly after he left her, Burden wrote that he had instructed her, “You can have the house and the apartment. You can have custody of the kids. I don’t want it. I don’t want any of it.”
Burden had her lawyer ship Davis to custody agreementone which gave them every 50/50 custody, assuming he “would have realized his mistake” in not searching for extra time with their kids by then. Instead, she wrote, he “returned the document stripped of all his time, including vacations, holidays, weeks during the summer. He included only dinner on Thursday nights.”
She admitted that she believes he genuinely thought he was being “selfless” by not formalizing the settlement and that he argued their kids had been sufficiently old to resolve for themselves after they wished to see him. For greater moments, like when their son had surgical procedure, she mentioned that he confirmed up, however “for everyday issues, he responded with irritation.”
Sims requested Burden throughout his podcast whether or not Davis had ever spoken to her about what occurred and why he distanced himself so firmly from her and their kids.
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Burden, seen with certainly one of her daughters, mentioned the “hardest part” of her divorce has been her ex-husband’s refusal to guardian. (Belle Burden/Instagram)
“The only things he’s ever said were right at the beginning,” she answered. “He said, ‘I felt like a switch went off. I feel like a switch has gone off.'”
About a yr after the break up, she mentioned she texted him late one night time searching for solutions. “And he said, ‘I wish I had an answer for you. It’s not your fault. Something broke in me.’ And that’s the most I’ve gotten. And that’s where my head has to rest.”
She mentioned that when she thinks about it, she envisions the change going off, “but also like he was playing this role of husband and fatherand he wanted to play it, and he was all in. And then, like an actor on a stage, he just was like, ‘I’m done with this role,’ takes off the costume, leaves the stage and can’t do it gracefully.”
Belle Burden is the daughter of Carter Burden, descendant of the Vanderbilt household and a profitable businessman in his personal proper, and Amanda Burden, a distinguished city planner. (Horst P. Horst/Conde Nast through Getty Images)
Sims requested how the youngsters are dealing with not having Davis in their lives as a true father determine, and Burden mentioned, “They are amazing because they love him, and they’re protective of him, and they’re actually very good now at reaching out to him to do things that are comfortable for him, like going to a hockey game or something like that.”
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She mentioned they’re “wonderful in navigating that,” however added, “For me as a mother, I think the biggest challenge for me is to acknowledge their reality, to say ‘this is what’s happening, this is unusual, that you do not live with your dad’ … So I would say to my 12-year-old, ‘Your dad, I don’t know why, but he can’t create a home for you right now. And that has to do with him, and that’s not you.'”
Burden, seen together with her stepmother, Susan Burden, and ex-husband Henry Davis, admitted that Davis hasn’t spoken to her concerning the launch of her guide. (Patrick McMullan through Getty Images)
As for Davis’ response to the guide’s launch, Burden admitted that she’s heard he is “not happy.”
She first printed a snippet of her story in an essay for a column in The New York Timeswhich he had to log out on — she mentioned she thought “he didn’t really see anything wrong with the narrative, like, you’re a man, you’re allowed to leave in this way.” But now that, as Sims put it, “the whole world, every woman in America hates you,” he is “surprised.”
“He said, ‘I don’t think I come off well in this,'” Burden shared.
