Smallville Star Aaron Ashmore Reveals He Quietly Split from Wife Zoe Kate During COVID: 'The Hits Just Kept Coming'

Aaron Ashmore revealed he has been separated from his wife for a while.

On the March 25 episode of the Inside of You podcast, Aaron, 45, revealed to the host, his former Smallville costar Michael Rosenbaum, that he and Zoe Kate are no longer together — and have not been for years now.

Known for his roles in shows like Warehouse 13, Veronica Mars and Ginny & Georgia (and for being the identical twin brother of actor Shawn Ashmore), Aaron married Kate in 2014, and later split from her during the pandemic, he revealed on the podcast.

After host Rosenbaum, 52, asked Aaron about the “toughest time” in his life, he recalled how he and Kate decided to “split up” during the already-difficult period.

"You know, COVID was a really tough time,” Aaron recalled. “We had a brand new baby, my dad got stuck home with a 3-year-old and a newborn, and my dad got ill over that time period and passed away. And then eight months after that, my wife and I decided to split up.”

"I was grieving my dad and then my marriage dissolved and stuff,” he recalled, adding that “there was about a two and a half year period that was just like … the hits just kept coming, man.”

Before they split for good, the now-exes — who share two young daughters, Esme and Margot — did couple’s therapy, and the Smallville actor also went to therapy on his own after the split.

“We were actually in therapy for our merit. My ex is a therapist so there was always a lot of encouragement to do therapy, and so we did. We did our due diligence for our relationship and our marriage,” he told Rosenbaum, adding that they did couple’s therapy for about a year before calling it quits.

“There was some difficult times,” the actor said, adding that perhaps the most difficult came about a year and a half later when he “couldn't afford to keep” his home.

Selling the home, which he "loved" and "where one of my kids was born," sent the star "into a tail spin” and left him feeling “depressed” for about three months, he recalled on the podcast.

"I'm going to be able to go buy another house and stuff, but it just represented something,” he said. “It was the last thing that our marriage … this is it man, like there’s nothing left of this — I mean, the kids of course, of course — but in our life together.”

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Thankfully, however, this low point had a silver lining — it was marked by support from his twin brother, Shawn, Aaron told Rosenbaum.

“Luckily, my brother came and helped me out,” he recalled. “He was like, ‘Dude, you’re in a rough patch,’ and some of my friends and stuff, and I got through it. But sometimes those things hit you not when you’re expecting it.”