Ian Somerhalderis letting the world know just how grateful he is for his wife,Nikki Reed.
On Friday, theVampire Diariesactor, 42,shared a heartfelt messageon Instagram in honor of theTwilightstar’s 33rd birthday.
In the post, he explained that Reed previously helped him out of a “terrible business situation” that had left him with large amount of debt.
“I invested heavily, I made huge personal guarantees to banks. However due to greed and fraud within that company and fraudulent activities from our biggest customer, not to mention the temporary collapse of the oil and gas industry - I was left in an EIGHT- FIGURE hole,” Somerhalder continued.
“It was awful. A true nightmare day in and day out. I had to travel the world weekly to pay for massive monthly six-figure bank notes and ended up in the hospital 4 times in 2 years,” he recalled.
Referring to Reed, Somerhalder wrote, “This woman here decided that she didn’t want to see her husband ruin his body/mind/spirit and pulled up her bootstraps and got down in the trenches assembling a team to get to the negotiating table to find a way out. She devoted her life to getting me out of that mess and it almost killed her along the way.”
Somerhalder added that Reed’s help allowed him to start fresh and launch his craft bourbon brand with Wesley.
“I am where I am BECAUSE of this woman. Brothers Bond Bourbon is actually here today because of this woman. I was able to start my life over because of this woman. Needless to say it’s been the most eye opening and truly humbling experience,” he wrote. “Painful as hell but as a family SHE got us through. It’s unreal. I owe her my health, my life and my sanity.”
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Somerhalder and Reed were first spotted together in July 2014. Aftergetting engagedin January 2015, the coupletied the knot that April.
Two years later, the lovebirds welcomed daughterBodhi Soleilin August 2017.
source: people.com
