(This story was updated to add new information.)

U.S. Senate candidate Ruben Gallego filed suit to end his marriage with Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego just before she gave birth to their son and sought to keep the split outside the public view from the start, newly unsealed records show.

He said the marriage was “irretrievably broken,” a legal term common in Arizona cases. The ensuing documents shuttled between lawyers for both of them show no claim of infidelity or physical abuse in their marriage.

Even so, the redacted records bring a measure of personal scrutiny that Democrat Ruben Gallego hoped to avoid in the last stages of his Senate race against Republican Kari Lake.

Ruben Gallego has long attributed the December 2016 divorce to his post-traumatic stress disorder from serving in the Iraq War. In an interview with the Washington Post years ago, he acknowledged what he described as “extreme outbursts.”

But there was no evidence of exactly what that meant in the records made public. The divorce was finalized in April 2017 with no evident haggling over dividing their assets.

Kate Gallego has said their divorce records formalized how the couple would raise their son apart from each other. Both expressed worry that public disclosure of the records could endanger the boy, and they both blame Lake for digging into their divorce, something Lake has denied.

Kate Gallego has endorsed Ruben Gallego, a five-term member of Congress, in the Senate race.

After the information was released, the Gallegos continued to blame the unwanted attention on Lake.

“We demand an apology from Kari Lake for lying about our family and the circumstances of our divorce,” they said in a joint statement. “She will stop at nothing to score a cheap political point — even if it means endangering the privacy and well-being of our young son. We have long put our child before all else and will continue to do so.

“The judge in this case has recognized how standard the records are, and it is shameful that Lake, her allies, and those who amplify her cruelty refused to respect two people who are just trying to raise a beautiful boy together.”

The records became public Thursday after the conservative Washington Free Beacon won a lawsuit it filed earlier this year to open the records. In its case, the Free Beacon noted that divorce records in Arizona are typically open matters and that, as a Senate candidate, Ruben Gallego deserved more scrutiny.

The Arizona Supreme Court rejected a request by the Gallegos on Wednesday to keep the redacted records sealed while they pursued an appeal of the earlier rulings. The redacted records now become public more than a week into early voting, and were treated as a looming “October surprise.”

In June, Yavapai Superior Court Judge John Napper, who originally presided over the Free Beacon’s case, indicated from the bench that the information was pedestrian in nature.

“I’ve reviewed this entire file multiple times now. I think everyone’s going to be rather deflated with the results of it,” he said in a video obtained by 12 News. “This is a, well, I’m not a politician, and maybe this will be very, very important information. But this looks to me like one of the most garden-variety divorce files I have ever seen.”

For her part, Lake is hoping the newly available records can boost her prospects in a race where Ruben Gallego has long held the upper hand. He has consistently posted polling leads over Lake, drawn far more support from his party’s allies than Lake, and had millions more in campaign funds.

Ahead of the file’s release, Caroline Wren, a Lake adviser, sought to distance Lake from the effort to unseal the case and accused Ruben Gallego of lying by saying she had a hand in it.

Lake has for months sought to focus attention on the divorce file as a corrective to Ruben Gallego’s public image.

In an interview Wednesday with KTAR (92.3 FM) on Wednesday, Lake again hurled personal broadsides at Ruben Gallego, saying he may be beholden to drug cartels because his estranged father was a convicted drug dealer who didn’t formally leave his life until a divorce when Ruben Gallego was 18.

“This might explain some of his votes with a wide-open border and major lying about what led up to his divorce,” Lake said.

The onetime, preeminent political power couple in Arizona announced their split in December 2016 after six years of marriage.

It was an event that Kate Gallego, then the vice mayor of Phoenix, wrote about on Facebook.

“It is painful when any marriage ends, and it is not something that I ever wanted or expected,” she wrote.

“Although we are both public officials, we consider this a completely private matter and neither Ruben nor I will be answering further questions. Instead, I will focus every ounce of energy I have preparing for the birth of our son in January and being the best possible mother I can for him.”

Ruben Gallego, who had just won his second term in Congress, added a social media message of his own at the time.

“I’m sad to announce that my marriage is ending. Kate and I hope to keep this a private matter and appreciate your respect for our privacy.”

In his book “They Called Us Lucky,” Ruben Gallego briefly mentioned his divorce and its timing.

“Not to give the entire plot away, but we get married and inevitably drift apart and finally divorce at what outsiders might think is the worst possible time,” he wrote.

“Yet we remain friends, share in each other’s lives, and we certainly support each other’s careers. But the terms of our relationship now are utterly different.”

The records include redactions that seem to revolve around personal information, such as Social Security numbers and their finances. It also includes information relating to their son.

Some redactions are little more than a word in length; others appear as large black blocks on the page.

Ruben Gallego filed for the divorce on Dec. 15, 2016, with a three-page document that is largely legal boilerplate material.

In her legal response to the filing, Kate Gallego disputed one, relatively short passage asserted by Ruben Gallego that is redacted. Otherwise, the case appeared to proceed to splitting their assets and agreeing to a visitation and child support schedule common to divorces involving children.

The disclosures are a lowlight for Ruben Gallego and likely a source of renewed pain for Kate Gallego. But the records don’t change the basic narrative both Gallegos have previously discussed in their limited public remarks on the subject.

In a separate interview with KTAR Wednesday, Ruben Gallego reiterated his view that they wanted the record sealed to protect their son.

“The judge who actually is overseeing this has said this is one of the most boring, boring divorce procedures. The reason Kate and I have tried to keep as much confidential is not for us; it’s for our son, Michael,” he said.

Gallego said Lake has attacked the family of the late U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; the family of Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer had to get bodyguards because of her attacks; and Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates is stepping down because of election-denier harassment that has left him with post-traumatic stress disorder.

“This is who we are trying to protect our son from, because she will do anything, she will say anything and hurt anybody just to get power,” he said.

Battle lost: Arizona Supreme Court rejects Ruben and Kate Gallego's bid to keep divorce files closed

The Free Beacon is a website that promises “coverage of the enemies of freedom.” Its roster of such enemies includes former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

It has received substantial funding from conservative New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer.

The publication first hired a research firm that connected then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to the Russian government, the New York Times has reported. The Free Beacon has denied any involvement in that matter.

After Trump clinched the GOP nomination in 2016, Trump’s Russian ties became a source of continued scrutiny by Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign.