The Vampire Diaries' Candice Accola files for divorce from Joe King after seven years of marriage and two children

Candice Accola and Joe King have made the decision to end their marriage after seven years, less than two years after welcoming their second child together.

According to court documents obtained by Us Weekly on Tuesday, the 35-year-old Vampire Diaries actress filed for divorce due to 'irreconcilable differences' on April 28.

The legal paperwork also indicated she moved to Nashville following their breakup in January, while her ex is still living in Brentwood, Tennessee, just ten miles away.

Earlier this year, the duo sparked separation rumors after the mother-of-two deleted any trace of her spouse, 41, from her Instagram then all other posts before April 9.

Accola was also not wearing her wedding ring in any of the recent pictures she posted, from mirror selfies in her bedroom to latest travels to Tuscany and Italy. 

The Fray member has also scrubbed Accola from his social media, but kept all pictures of their two daughters Florence May, six, and Josephine June, one.

King also shares daughters, Elise, and Ava, from his previous marriage with ex-wife, Julie King, to whom he was married from 1999 to 2011. 

The former couple were introduced by her Vampire Diaries' costar Nina Dobrev after they took part in DirecTV’s 2012 Celebrity Beach Bowl.

She went on to appear in the guitarist's music video for Love Don’t Die back in 2014. 

The Originals actress and the rocker got engaged in Florence, Italy, in 2013 after three years of dating, before tying the knot in New Orleans in October of the following year.

In August 2020, she announced her second pregnancy on the Directionally Challenged podcast, which she hosts with Kayla Ewell.

'Something I have not shared yet on this podcast is that I’m actually pregnant. I’ve got a bun in the oven,' Candice revealed to her listeners.

'I’m a little over five months, so it’s been the entirety of the whole quarantine experience and everything that 2020 has brought us this year, and it’s been a journey to say the least,' she continued.

The actress explained that she had sat on the news until she was 'comfortable and confident that I’m in a good place in pregnancy and that, you know, my baby’s okay and I’m okay as best as we can be. But I’m finally at that place right now, which feels really good.

'I feel comfortable and confident enough to discuss it now,' she added.

Candice previously gave birth to her first daughter Florence May in January 2016.