Vili Fualaau Is Dumping Mary Kay Letourneau So He Can Make Money Off Marijuana, He Says

Vili Fualaau filed for a legal separation from wife Mary Kay Letourneau May 9 in a Washington State court, but it’s not because there is anything wrong with their relationship. Fualaau is still in love with his former teacher. The reason for the legal split is that he wants to start a business and he can’t do that with Letourneau as his wife since she’s a convicted felon.

“It’s not necessarily what you think,” Fualaau, now 33, told Radar Online in an exclusive interview Wednesday. “Everything is fine between us.”

“All the rumors that you hear between us. It’s fine,” he said. “Of course [we are still in love]. A piece of paper doesn’t break someone’s feelings!”

Fualaau made a living as a DJ, but now he wants to get licensed to dispense “Cigaweed,” which are marijuana cigarettes.

While he has a clean background, his notorious wife doesn’t.

“When you want to get licensed, they do background checks on both parties,” Fualaau told Radar Online. “If I decide to be a part of it I have to be licensed and I have to be vetted and so does a spouse. She has a past. She has a history.”

The only problem with Fualaau’s explanation is that Letourneau filed a petition to have the separation case dismissed, TMZ reported exclusively Wednesday. The publication obtained the documents, which reportedly did not contain any reason to terminate the case.

Fualaau and Letourneau, now 55, started their affair in 1996 when she was his sixth grade teacher. At the time, he was 13 years old and she was 34. She went to prison for more than seven years for engaging in the affair. The couple got married in 2005 in Woodinville, Washington, after she was released from prison. They share two children together. She has four children from a previous relationship.

Letourneau gave birth to Fualaau’s first child before she served her sentence. She gave birth to their second child behind bars. The former teacher admitted to two counts of second-degree child rape and served her full term.

The couple did not sign a pre-nuptial agreement or separation contract, CNN noted. Neither of them own “any real property,” the separation document says, according to CNN. Fualaau asked the court for any personal property to be split in a fair manner.

Fualaau noted he did not want to have an Order of Protection placed against his wife.

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