Channing Tatum Seeks ‘Therapy’ Following Escape Room Altercation with Daughter
Channing Tatum is doing his best to adapt to the changes he’s noticing in his daughter Everly as she nears her teenage years.
“I don’t know when yours started changing or if, but it’s just happening for me,” Tatum, 45, shared during the Thursday, October 9 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, referring to his 12-year-old daughter, according to People.
Drew Barrymore responded, “Tell me everything because I have 13 and 11, so I’m sandwiching her.”
Tatum noted that Everly has always been “pretty opinionated, very strong-willed,” but now it’s reached “a whole different level.”
“I got yelled at in an escape room yesterday. I’ve never been yelled at by her before,” he recounted. “All I did was say, ‘I wonder what’… She shouted, ‘Dad, don’t touch that!’ and I thought, ‘Wow, where did that come from?’ We were both trying to solve the puzzle, and now it feels like we need therapy after that moment.”
He continued, “That was not her. Her eyes changed—like they turned shark black or something. It was wild.”
Tatum shares Everly with his ex-wife Jenna Dewan. The former couple married in 2009 and welcomed their daughter in 2013. As Everly matures, Tatum has been open about engaging with her interests.
“I remember liking to act and play pretend, but I wasn’t sure if I could connect with her at her level,” Tatum told VMan magazine in February 2022, adding that he realized he needed to “enter her world and do whatever it is that [Everly] wants” him to do.
Tatum and Dewan announced their separation in 2018, with the divorce finalized in 2024.
“Jenna and I are good now, but it was hard to have that fall apart, especially at such a young age,” Tatum said in the Variety interview in September. “We put in the effort to stay together for a year and a half… it’s behind us now.”
In the same interview, Tatum candidly discussed co-parenting Everly with Dewan, who also has a son, Callum, age 5, and daughter Rhiannon, 16 months, with fiancé Steve Kazee.
“It’s challenging not to have my daughter half the time,” Tatum admitted. “I wish I could have her all the time.”
Following his split from Dewan, Tatum began dating Zoë Kravitz. The *Magic Mike* star proposed to Kravitz in October 2023, but the couple parted ways the following year. He is currently in a relationship with Inka Williams.
As Tatum and Williams’ relationship develops, a source exclusively told Us Weekly that he is “not looking to settle down right now,” but they are “definitely dating.” While managing both parenthood and his relationship, Tatum has yet to introduce Williams to Everly, the insider revealed.
The source noted that Tatum prefers to keep “things separate” for now, describing the relationship as more low-key than his previous ones. “Channing is having a lot of fun right now,” the insider added. “The relationship is low-pressure, and they share a mutual understanding about it.”
