Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan was blindsided by the news that her husband, Clay Pell, was ending their marriage.

Court documents reveal that the former world skating champion discovered from an article shared on Twitter that Pell had filed for divorce in California on March 27.

Kwan filed her own papers in Rhode Island on March 30 - with both citing 'irreconcilable differences'.

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Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan claims she learned from Twitter that her husband, Clay Pell, was divorcing her. Pell filed divorce papers in California on March 27 and Kwan filed her own in Rhode Island - where the couple lived - on March 30 (pictured in April 2015)

Kwan is looking to have the California case dismissed and heard in Rhode Island, where the former couple lived and where Kwan is a registered voter. She claims that last month she attempted to serve Pell with divorce papers ten times (pictured in January 2014)

In a complaint, obtained by the Providence Journal, Kwan claimed that she and her husband had planned on resolving their 'differences' through a settlement conference ahead of Pell's filing in California.

Kwan's complaint stated: 'Plaintiff initially learned that the Defendant had filed for divorce in California by means of a "Tweet"on March 29, 2017 and shortly thereafter from the online copy of an article published in the New York Daily News.'

It is unclear which Tweet is being referred to.

Kwan is looking to have the California case dismissed and, instead, heard in Rhode Island where the former couple lived and where Kwan is a registered voter.

Additionally, she asked the court to order Pell to remove his belongings from a home they were jointly remodeling in Newport, Rhode Island.

Court records show Pell wants the Rhode Island filing to be dismissed so the divorce can be heard in California.

Kwan is a five-time world figure skating champion - and the most decorated skater in US history - who won Olympic silver and bronze medals in 1998 and 2002, respectively.

Pell is a grandson of Rhode Island's late Democratic US Senator Claiborne Pell, and he unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2014.

The couple met in April 2011 and married in Providence in 2013, but they have no children.

Kwan rose to fame when she began competing in 1994. She won medals at the Olympics in 1998 and 2002 and is a five-time world figure skating champion as well as the most decorated skater in US history (pictured left at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and right at the 2005 World Figure Skating Championships)

Kwan lists the date of separation as November. She spent part of last year working for Hillary Clinton's campaign - and she and Pell rented a home in Brooklyn for that period.

But Kwan says her main residence is Providence, where she visited Pell on weekends. She lists Newport and California homes as 'vacation' properties.

Since November, the Olympian has been staying at a motel in Newport while renovating the nearby home.

Court records indicate that Kwan tried and failed to serve Pell with divorce papers ten times in April.

Ultimately, the court documents were tacked to the front door.