Jennie Garth was horrified when Peter Facinelli asked her for a divorce.

The Twilight actor recently filed papers at Los Angeles County Superior Court to dissolve his 11-year union with the former Beverly Hills 90210 actress, but Jennie admitted she was "resistant" when Peter first suggested they should split.

"I was very resistant. I didn't want it to happen. It took me some time to come to peace with it. I've gone through my darkest parts and I'm coming out of it. I'm OK. I don't know what the future holds, but then I've never been a planner. And maybe that's a good thing," she told People.

Jennie - who lives in California with her three daughters Luca, 14, Lola, nine, and five-year-old Fiona with Peter - blames his work commitments including filming the Twilight Saga in Vancouver and Nurse Jackie in New York for causing the breakdown of their marriage.

"He would do everything he could to fly back every weekend. [But] it took a real toll on our marriage."