{"id":239,"date":"2026-04-29T22:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/ian-somerhalder-reveals-he-and-wife-nikki-reed-wracked-up-a-staggering-8-figure-debt-after-leaving-hollywood\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:29:19","slug":"ian-somerhalder-reveals-he-and-wife-nikki-reed-wracked-up-a-staggering-8-figure-debt-after-leaving-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/ian-somerhalder-reveals-he-and-wife-nikki-reed-wracked-up-a-staggering-8-figure-debt-after-leaving-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Somerhalder reveals he and wife Nikki Reed wracked up a staggering 8-figure debt after leaving Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/126651752.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ian Somerhalder revealed that he and his wife, \u201cTwilight\u201d star Nikki Reed, climbed out of a massive debt after leaving behind his acting career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Vampire Diaries\u201d star shared that he accrued an eight-figure debt because of a failed business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI retired from acting seven years ago. I left an insanely lucrative career in television after a financial upheaval from building a business that I didn\u2019t build properly,\u201d he admitted in an interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1431458\/ian-somerhalder-on-8-figure-debt-how-nikki-reed-helped\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with E! News<\/a>. \u201cAnd due to fraud, it put my wife and I into an eight-figure hole.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Ian Somerhalder said he and his wife, Nikki Reed \u2014 pictured here in July 2016 \u2014 climbed out of a staggering eight-figure debt. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for Entertainment Weekly<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Somerhalder said they had to \u201csell everything\u201d to get out of debt. They\u2019re seen here in October 2025. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Somerhalder said \u201cit all came crashing down\u201d after he made eight figures of personal guarantees to a bank. He credited his wife with digging them out of their financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEight figures is a hard hole to climb out of,\u201d he said.  \u201cBut Nikki and I did it. You know, she really negotiated us out of this deal, but we sold houses, paintings, cars, watches, everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I should have been retiring off of one of the biggest TV shows in the world,\u201d he added, referring to the CW\u2019s \u201cThe Vampire Diaries,\u201d which he starred in from 2009 to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Somerhalder is now an entrepreneur after retiring from acting. He co-founded Brother\u2019s Bond Bourbon with his \u201cThe Vampire Diaries\u201d co-star Paul Wesley, and Somerhalder and Reed also co-founded the Absorption Company, which offers high-absorption powdered supplements. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The couple \u2014 seen here in October 2017 \u2014 co-founded the Absorption Company, which offers high-absorption powdered supplements.  <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for ELLE<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Somerhalder said his advice to anyone looking to start a business with their significant other is to \u201cmake it fun.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Somerhalder\u2019s advice for anyone looking to start a business with their significant other is to \u201cmake it fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ups and the downs in the journey are supposed to be fun,\u201d he said. \u201cThe grind is supposed to be fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFind the beauty in all of it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Somerhalder, 47, and Reed, 37, tied the knot in April 2015. They share two children together: daughter Bodhi, 8, and a son they welcomed in June 2023.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Somerhalder and Reed have been married since April 2015. They\u2019re seen here in June 2021. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The couple moved to a farm outside of Los Angeles with their two children a few years ago. They\u2019re pictured here in October 2024. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for the Environmental Media Association<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The couple\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/01\/18\/entertainment\/ian-somerhalder-has-no-regrets-about-ditching-hollywood-for-farm-life-i-dont-miss-any-of-it\/\">moved to a farm<\/a>\u00a0just outside of Los Angeles with their kids a few years ago and <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/10\/29\/celebrity-news\/ian-somerhalder-says-his-acting-career-is-in-the-rear-view-mirror-after-ditching-hollywood-for-farm-life\/\">have never looked back.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re building three companies at the same time, raising kids,\u201d he told People in October 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He also told E! News in January of that year of his acting career, \u201cI loved what I did for a really long time. I  don\u2019t miss any of it. I love making films, and I just did it for so long. We had an amazing run.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/29\/celebrity-news\/ian-somerhalder-reveals-he-and-wife-nikki-reed-wracked-up-a-staggering-8-figure-debt-after-leaving-hollywood\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Somerhalder revealed that he and his wife, \u201cTwilight\u201d star Nikki Reed, climbed out of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/126651752.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}