"He packed his bag and went home to Washington with no plan to come back. I buried my emotions and threw myself into my work.”

The “Barefoot Contessa” cooking show alum details her near-divorce from her husband, Jeffrey, in her upcoming memoir, “Be Ready When the Luck Happens.”

Ina Garten was only 15 years old when she first met her now-husband, Jeffrey Garten. The couple dated for five years before tying the knot in 1968 in her parents’ Connecticut backyard when she was 20 and he was 22.