Anchor Frank Somerville’s wife filed for divorce in Jan 2022

Disgraced California TV anchor Frank Somerville — who was recently arrested twice in one night — first started to fall apart after he was hit with a charge of Driving Under the Influence and then divorce papers a few weeks later.

Somerville made national news when he was caught on video rear-ending an Audi with his black Porsche then slamming his vehicle into a pole in Oakland on Dec. 30, 2021.

His wife of 25 years, TV producer Donna Wright Somerville, then filed for divorce on Jan. 6, 2022 according to court records obtained by The Post.

Donnacited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the divorce and listed their date of separation as June 19, 2020.

The couple have two daughters, one who was still a minor at the time of the filing, according to court documents. The divorce was finalized on May 1 this year.

According to the divorce settlement, the veteran anchorman for KTVU got to keep his notorious Porsche, but his ex got the five-bedroom home in Oakland they had shared during the marriage.

While other assets were divided, the judge ordered Donna Somerville to pay spousal support to the ex-anchorman “in an amount equal to one-half of her Net Earned Income”.

In a tell-all TV interview with Bay Area TV station KRON, Somerville said he was “sad” at the time of the crash because he didn’t get to spend time during the holidays with his family.

His recent arrest on June 5 stemmed from an altercation involving his younger brother at their parent’s home on Indian Rock Avenue in Berkeley, according to local reports.

According to the Berkeley Scanner, the siblings had a fight over “ongoing family issues” involving their elderly father, whom Somerville allegedly threatened.

The family asked Somerville to leave, but he refused, Berkeley Police Department officials said. He was arrested for suspicion of making criminal threats, public intoxication, assault and for violating his probation.

Somerville was placed in jail but posted a $32,500 bond and was release at 2:20 a.m. on June 6, according to cops.

The troubled ex-newsman then went back to his father’s home to get his car, left, but returned again to grab his phone, according to cops.

Police were called to the family residence and Somerville was once again arrested at 4:20 a.m. after cops found him intoxicated in his car. He was arrested for the second time on June 6 for DUI and violation of his probation.

He bailed out of jail at 4 p.m. the same day.

Somerville has been very candid about his troubles with alcohol. He first went viral after he slurred through a live newscast on May 2021.

Somerville denied that he was drunk on the air and claimed he had mistakenly took Ambien — a drug used to help someone fall asleep —  right before the 10 p.m. newscast.

He took a leave of absence and went to rehab for nine weeks. He returned to the anchor desk on August 2021, but was suspended again the next month when he disagreed with the station’s management over the coverage of the Gabby Petito story.

Somerville, who has an adopted Black daughter, took issue with the “insane” amount of coverage for the Petito case.

Petito, 22, was bludgeoned and strangled to death by her fiancé Brian Launderie during their cross-country trip. The story garnered national attention after a lengthy manhunt for Laundrie, whose body was found in a Floria swamp after he committed suicide.

“There was no reason for it other than she was a cute white kid,” Somerville said in the March KRON interview. “But for some reason, I was suspended over that. I still, to this day, am not sure why.”

On May 26, the ex-newsman posted a picture of himself and his younger daughter showing off their tattoos.

“I’ve lived in the TV box for 40 years,” he wrote. “Now I can finally express myself. … I get that tattoos have a negative impression with many. Well, I’m here to say, ‘So what?’ I think they’re beautiful and they make me happy.”