The Grammy winner then posted a video on Instagram refuting the separation and calling it “fake news”
Pink and her husband Carey Hart have separated after 20 years of marriage, a source tells PEOPLE.
A rep for Pink had no comment. A rep for Hart did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment. However, Pink posted a video on the afternoon of Thursday, Feb. 26, refuting the report.
“So I was just alerted to the fact that I’m separated from my husband,” she said in a video shared on Instagram. “I didn’t know. Thank you for letting me know. Would you also like to tell our children? My 14- and 9-year-old are also unaware.”
She continued, “Do you want to want to talk about my accomplishments or do you only want to talk about my supposed demise? So fake news, not true. I love you all.”
The “Trustfall” singer, 46, and the former pro motocross racer, 50, share two children, daughter Willow Sage, 14, and son Jameson Moon, 9.
After meeting at the 2001 Summer X Games in Philadelphia, Pink (born Alecia Moore) and Hart dated on and off before he proposed in 2005; they married in Costa Rica in January 2006.
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Two years later, the pair announced that they had separated for the first time. Pink and Hart stayed amicable — Hart even appeared in her music video for hit single “So What,” which was inspired by their separation — and in the spring of 2009, they revealed that they had reconciled and called off their separation.
“We’re rebuilding,” Hart told PEOPLE that April. “Sometimes you have to take a couple of steps backwards to move forward.”
In 2021, Pink offered a glimpse into her family’s private life — at home and on the road on tour — in her Prime Video documentary All I Know So Far.
That same year, in a PEOPLE cover story, Pink — who is currently nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — opened up about how she and Hart weathered various ups and downs throughout their relationship, revealing that they did individual therapy as well as couples counseling.
“Long-term relationships are not easy. It is much easier to stay in the solid days and jump from relationship to relationship, because then you don’t have to fix the problems that keep recurring. You have to end up fixing yourself; you can’t fix the other person. So it can be challenging, and there’s good days and there’s bad days,” she told PEOPLE.
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At the time, Pink added, “I think it’s an impossible expectation for you to think that you’re going to evolve at exactly the same pace as another person in exactly the same direction. So it takes work to redefine what’s important. I don’t want to break up my family. That’s been my main goal, since I had a broken family. Sometimes you have to let it go. You can’t die on every mountain.”
In 2023, she opened up to PEOPLE in another cover story about sticking together through tough times.
“He and I are independent to a fault. That’s probably why we’ve stayed together so long, because we can live completely separately and then be together,” Pink told PEOPLE at the time. “We don’t need each other. We choose each other.”