‘Broke my heart’: Constance Hall reveals marriage update

Constance Hall has set the record straight on her relationship with Denim Cooke after receiving nasty messages that he was “using” her.

Constance Hall has opened up about her marriage to husband Denim Cooke, revealing they have made the difficult decision to live apart so he can heal from his brain injury.

The Western Australian mummy blogger and businesswoman met Denim in 2017, with the pair marrying and welcoming son Raja in 2018.

In August 2020 Denim was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident that left him with multiple broken bones, a crushed spine and a brain injury.

Last month, Denim was fined after being pulled over by police for driving without a licence and an unrestrained child in the car. An oral swab also revealed he had methamphetamine in his system.

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The couple have been together since 2017. Picture: Instagram/Constance Hall

In a video posted to her Facebook and Instagram this week, Constance confirmed she had been living with her mother since July.

The blogger, who also runs successful clothing brand Queen the Label, said the stress of running her business and looking after five children amid Covid had taken its toll.

On top of that, Denim’s brain injury had seen him “wasting away to a shell of a man” and she “switched him off to a certain degree”.

“He just completely checked out of life after the accident and he was my only, everything and my all,” Constance explained.

“I think when he woke up from the accident I was very excited and there was this sort of false (hope).”

She explained in a video how their relationship had come under strain due to Denim’s brain injury. Picture: Instagram/Constance Hall

While lucky to have survived the accident, it had damaged Denim’s frontal lobe, meaning he “doesn’t have motivation anymore”.

“He did have it before, he could help me with driving to the shops, he could help with you know organising meals,” Constance said.

“He could do things before and can’t do them now … (the psychiatrist said), ‘he’s not doing this to you on purpose, he doesn’t have the ability to consider other people’.”

The psychiatrist has stressed Denim isn’t “a lost cause” and recommended he be “removed from the family home” so his loved ones could be motivation for him to get better.

After looking at assisted care facilities, a friend offered to take in Denim in Esperance, while Constance moved in with her mother.

The couple are still very much in love despite making the difficult decision to live apart. Picture: Instagram/Constance Hall

“I was behaving in ways, I was not being very nice before he left,” she said. “That’s what happens when you are in relationships that aren’t very healthy, you become something you don’t want to be.”

Constance said it had “broke my heart the night he left”, but since living apart, Denim has made major improvements.

“I spoke to him the next day and there was just this light in his eyes … he was just his old self again,” she said.

While Constance had received Denim’s consent to share this change to their relationship, his “story isn’t mine to tell, there are aspects of it that I’ll always leave for him to choose when or if they are shared”.

“I hate the comments on my blog where people are like, he’s using you, he’s taking the piss out of you and they message me all the time,” she said.

“I can’t spend the rest of my live defending him, because I don’t even understand him. I do love him, I still love him.”

Originally published as ‘Broke my heart’: Constance Hall reveals marriage update