Mary Elizabeth Smith `` My husband is diabetic , has heart disease , and is otherwise not in good health , '' she said in her filing . ` : She learned of her husband 's marriage in a newspaper . ` ` I fear that he has early onset dementia , '' she says of her husband . The Witherspoons , married for 42 years , separated in 1996 but never divorced . Reese Witherspoon 's daughter has ` ` no comment '' on her parents ' marriage .
Mary Elizabeth Smith : She learned of her husband 's marriage in a newspaper . ` ` I fear that he has early onset dementia , '' she says of her husband . The Witherspoons , married for 42 years , separated in 1996 but never divorced . Reese Witherspoon 's daughter has ` ` no comment '' on her parents ' marriage .