CHRISTINA APPLEGATE - APPLEGATE'S MARRIAGE THREATENED BY LONG DISTANCE

CHRISTINA APPLEGATE knew her marriage to actor JOHNATHON SCHAECH would never last - after the couple spent a year living apart on the opposite coasts of the U.S. The actress - who was forced to relocate from Los Angeles to New York in 2004 after accepting a role in Broadway show Sweet Charity - ignored her marital problems while living on the East Coast, but could no longer deny her relationship was in trouble after returning home, reports New York gossip column PageSix. She says, "A lot of stuff happened there, so it was interesting to come home (to Los Angeles) and face my reality and my truth. I think I was sort of in a fantasy world there." And the 36-year-old has slammed the "incredibly exaggerated" rumours that she and her ex have rekindled their romance: "We just talked and hung out for a little while and that was the end of it."