![]() The foundation spread awareness about abuse and provides support to the victims. It was established in honor of University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love, who was beaten to death in her apartment by her boyfriend, also a UV men’s lacrosse player in 2010. Charity/Advocacy One Love FoundationĬhristi is a member of the National Advisory Council for One Love Foundation. In October of 2000, when she was back in Ohio with her parents, she filed for a divorce. After four years, she decided to leave him for good, and was advised to inform him only when she was already far away, as it is usually the most dangerous time in an abusive situation. It was fine for a year but the abuse started again. Posted by Christi Paul on Friday, December 20, 2019 A couple of years into the marriage, she was ready to call it quits, but his parents intervened and they underwent marriage counseling. During the planning of their wedding, she had seen him lose his temper, but for which he would apologize profusely.Īfter their wedding, his temper escalated and the abuse started. That time, she was also offered her dream job in Cleveland, but she chose him. When Rob was accepted for a job in Boise in 1996, he decided that he couldn’t leave Christi in West Virginia, and so he asked her to marry him. When she was still starting her career in broadcast journalism, she met Rob Koebel, another news reporter, and dated him for a while. She has constantly posted about her infinite luck of having Peter for a husband. If her Instagram posts are to be believed, then her relationship is going strong and she has a happy family. She always believed in second chances in love, and now she has been married for 18 years with three daughters. She met him a year after she filed for divorce from her previous, abusive husband. Personal LifeĬhristi married her second husband Peter Wurm, a chemical engineer, on 21 June 2002 at a beach resort in Kauai, Hawaii. Today, she is still presenting news for HLN as one of the network’s weekday news anchors, and CNN’s “New Day” TV show weekend edition news anchor. ![]() She comprehensively presented the news about terrible tragedies such as the $70 billion devastation by Hurricane Sandy, the deadliest hurricane in 2012, and the most violent mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012, the Orlando Pulse nightclub in 2016, and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 2020. She was granted an exclusive interview with Vice President Joe Biden in 2013, in which domestic violence and Obamacare were discussed. They were able to locate quite a number of missing children through the help of the show.Ĭhristi became a popular news anchor by covering important national news events, including several presidential elections and the Barack Obama’s historic inauguration in Washington D.C. It started as a segment on CNN’s online site, then it aired in two networks such as HLN and TruTV for twice a week. Reporting tragic events such as missing children pushed her to create the TV show, “Find Our Children,” in 2010, to spread awareness about these children and seek help from viewers in looking for them. In 2013, she joined CNN network as a news correspondent and anchor, while still working with HLN. In 2003, she joined HLN (then CNN Headline News), a CNN owned cable news channel, the main focus of which was to deliver straight news all day long, but later on was relaunched with a new programming concept adding morning shows and true crime shows. ![]() When her marriage fell apart, she accepted a job at KNXV in Phoenix, Arizona, and then transferred to KTVK, a Phoenix CNN-affiliated TV station, where she became a news anchor, consumer correspondent, and weather girl. Later on, Christi moved to Boise, Idaho to accompany her first husband, and worked as a news correspondent for KTVB. Her steady work in the field of broadcast journalism had her earning about $12,000 a year. It was only when she was offered a job as a news presenter, reporter, and photographer at WDTV, a CBS-affiliated TV station in Clarksburg, West Virginia, that she was able to use her college degree. She went around doing odd jobs in Cleveland, such as assisting magicians in shows, presenting auto shows, and even singing at sports events. CareerĪfter college and internship, she wasn’t able to get into broadcasting immediately. Christi was recognized as an “Outstanding Alumna” and was awarded an honorary doctorate degree when she delivered a commencement address to the 2014-2015 graduates at the University of Toledo. Finally got myself some #BigGirlSpecs #WholeNewWorld #ISeeYou #Eyes #Glasses post shared by Christi Paul on at 12:03pm PSTĪfter she matriculated from a local high school in Bellevue in 1987, she went on to graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in Communication from the University of Toledo in 1993 she had her internship on Entertainment Tonight with CBS.
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