"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.”

The Food Network star, 76, who has been married to her husband, Jeffrey Garten, for 56 years, detailed their one-time separation and near-divorce in the 1970s in her upcoming memoir, “Be Ready When the Luck Happens .”