Cass Thorburn would just ‘lie on the floor’ after Karl Stefanovic split

Cassandra Thorburn has spoken candidly about her struggle to cope after splitting from the Today host, admitting she’d often just “lie on the floor” all day.

Cassandra Thorburn has spoken candidly about her struggles to cope after the breakdown of her marriage to Karl Stefanovic.

In her new podcast Divorce Story: Surviving Separation, Thorburn, 48, admitted that she had trouble getting through basic daily tasks amid her split from the Today host in 2016.

“You get yourself out the door with the kids to go to school … I had children, they had to go to school,” she said.

“You get them there. I would literally crawl to the back door and lie on the floor until it was time to pick them up again.”

Stefanovic and Thorburn at the 2011 Logies. Picture: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

Stefanovic and Thorburn – who have three children together – announced their break-up in 2016.

Five months after their split, Stefanovic began a relationship with shoe designer Jasmine Yarbrough, who he married in December 2018.

Stefanovic wed his second wife in Mexico.

The couple recently announced they are expecting a baby girl in the coming months.

Earlier this week, Thorburn addressed her ex-husband’s baby news in an interview with the Kyle and Jackie O show.

“What did you think when you saw that your ex is now having a baby with someone else? Was that a weird moment for you?” Kyle Sandilands asked Thorburn, causing her to laugh.

“What did I think?” she replied. “I thought, ‘I’m glad it’s not me!’

“To be honest, that’s all I thought.”

Annaliese Dent and Cassandra Thorburn co-host the new Divorce Story podcast. Picture: Instagram

In the past, Thorburn has made it clear that her separation from Stefanovic was hardly amicable – and the timing of her new podcast comes as he battles to rebuild his public reputation amid struggling Today ratings.

In October 2017, she told Woman’s Day that her ex-husband was now “dead” to her.

“The children still have a father but I don’t have a husband,” she said. “He really is dead to me and no, we won’t ever be friends again.”

The new podcast series, being released by New Idea magazine, is co-hosted by Thorburn and journalist Annaliese Dent.