Molly Ringwald Divorcing
By Julie Keller E!

If Molly Ringwald thought she left relationship angst behind her in her teens, she was mistaken.

The erstwhile Brat Packer star of Pretty in Pink and Breakfast Club is heading for Splitsville from her husband of three years in what looks like a rather difficult breakup. According to a report on ET Online, Ringwald said she is leaving her French novelist hubby Valery Lameigne`re due to "cruel and inhuman treatment."

The 34-year-old redhead seems to want to end her marriage quickly and wave au revoir to Lameigne`re, seeking no alimony, financial settlement nor possessions from their home in Bordeaux, France, according to the Website.

No further details were immediately available.

The split comes as a surprise, as the courtship and marriage of the '80s drama queen and her French import seemed like something out of, well, a John Hughes movie.

Ringwald, who was red-hot in the 1980s as the pouty member of the Brat Pack, had seen her career nosedive into a string of forgettable late-'90s TV movies and straight-to-video projects. She met Lameigne`re and, after an eight-year engagement, decided to live happily ever after in France (she did keep an apartment in New York as her U.S. home base).

The couple made it official in July of 1999 in a ceremony at the groom's family cabin in the seaside Bordeaux village of Arcachon. Ringwald floated across a bay to the flower-laden, paper-lantern-lit ceremony aboard a local boat amid cheers of friends, family and the locals, as described by InStyle.

She subsequently remained off the Hollywood radar for a couple years, appearing only briefly in bit parts here and there, preferring to spend her time with her personal Prince Charming and enjoying the obscurity of France.

"I am recognized, but obviously not as much as in America," she told E! Online in 2001. "But even if the French recognize a celebrity, they are much less likely to approach them. It's a cultural thing--and something that makes it possible for me to lead a somewhat normal life."

With that "somewhat normal life" now ending, don't think Ringwald is holed up in France crying in her croissant or moping a` la Sixteen Candles' Samantha Baker. She is keeping herself occupied Stateside as Sally Bowles in the hit Broadway musical revival Cabaret.