“I was shocked when I found out,” Sienna Miller explained in 2005 when she discovered that her fiancé, Jude Law, was having a relationship with her children's nanny. This effect that the actress alluded to was also experienced by others. Hollywood stars who had to withstand media pressure as their ties came under scrutiny.
Meg Ryan and an unexpected romance with Russell Crowe
Ryan had an affair with Russell Crowe, whom she met while filming Proof of Life. Grosby Group – LA NACION
The actress, who returned to the romantic comedy this year, believed in the late '80s that she had found the love that would stay with her throughout her life He formed a deep connection with his colleague Dennis Quaidduring the filming of the science fiction comedy “Innerspace” and then in the thriller “DOA”. Nora Ephron herself, Ryan's girlfriend, whom she chose for her films “Love Tune” and “You've Got Email”, spoke about the genesis of this relationship.
“They have a bond that makes you feel like your own life is completely humiliated because it's too cool and fabulous,” the noted filmmaker and author joked at the time. In fact, the bond was so special that in 1991 they decided to get married on Valentine's Day and in 1992 they had their first and only child, Jack.
Dennis Quaid revealed that Meg Ryan's popularity affected him because it made him feel very insecure. Grosby Group – LA NACION
Problems arose when Quaid's career suffered several setbacks and Ryan's career, on the contrary, shone brighter than ever. As the actor would say some time later, this caused him to become severely depressed and he turned to drug use. “I used cocaine almost constantly, I spent many nights screaming at God: 'Please take this away from me, I won't do it again because I only have an hour to go to work', but then it was “It was the afternoon.” and I thought, “Well, it's not that bad.” I had an experience where I saw myself dead or losing everything that meant something to me in my life,” he said in Megyn Kelly's Today show where he admitted to being unfaithful to Ryan due to his insecurities.
“When we first started dating, I was the most successful, but then people started shouting his name on the street and I have to admit: I felt like I had disappeared. “I never thought it would be that small, but it was,” the actor explained.
Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid were one of Hollywood's golden couples for many years. Until infidelity on both sides destroyed the marriage. archive
As for Ryan, he also decided to face the press' requests and talk about what happened to that bond that seemed bulletproof. “Dennis was faithful for a long time and that was very painful. After I signed the divorce, I even found out about more infidelities and stayed committed to the marriage, but there were days when I thought it was all very crazy and devastating. In 2000, She expressed her desire to separate from Quaid while filming the drama Proof of Life with Russell Crowe, in which she found the containment she was looking for. “Dennis saw the photos of them together and became depressed, he started crying,” friends of the actor explained at the time. However, Ryan was careful to deny the versions that he had started a relationship with Crowe before their divorce, which took place on July 16, 2001 and devastated the actress, while the Gladiator star believed he had a future with her had.
“I hurt him a lot.” [a Russell]“There was a moment where I felt like I couldn't fully commit to a long-term relationship, it didn't have to be at that moment, so I left him,” she was honest, adding, “He “I won't ruin a marriage and I will always support him.” Thank you for not coming out to reveal anything about what we experienced. I didn't divorce because of him, but because of my relationship [con Dennis] It did not work.”
Sandra Bullock and an infidelity she couldn't forgive
Sandra Bullock divorced Jesse James in 2010, paradoxically the best year of her professional life. GROSB GROUP – LA NACION
This year, Sandra Bullock suffered the loss of the man who “saved” her, photographer Bryan Randall, who died August 5 while battling ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The Maximum Speed actress always emphasized how Randall's entry into her life restored her faith in love, a faith she lost due to the ordeal she went through with her ex-partner, the motorcyclist and manufacturer had. Jesse James. The two met in 2004 at a meeting organized by James, who was then a successful host thanks to the popularity of the reality show Monster Garage. The crush led her to arrange a new date, the first of many that would prelude to the wedding that took place just a year after they first met.
The actress achieved what she longed for: a stable relationship that would not jeopardize her professional career. The long-awaited perfect balance. At the time, Bullock was receiving rave reviews for her work in “Crash,” “Infamous,” “The Proposal” and “A Possible Dream,” the biopic that won her the Best Actress Oscar at the 2010 ceremony. As for his personality, Bullock looked at James and defined him as the love he had always waited for. The close-up of the presenter shows him with tears in his eyes, moved by his wife's performance. A week later the marriage broke up.
Sandra Bullock and Jesse James had a scandalous breakup
Alarm bells rang when Bullock canceled her appearance at the London premiere of A Possible Dream, citing “unforeseen personal circumstances.” Hours later, she was seen retrieving her belongings from the home she shared with James and her stepdaughter Sunny in California. When the press investigated what happened, there was complete confusion. James had an extramarital affair with tattoo artist Michelle “Bombshell” McGee while the actress was filming the John Lee Hancock film. Likewise, McGee added fuel to the fire by revealing the private conversations he had with the host, which destroyed Bullock, who ended the relationship as soon as he found out about the betrayal.
Then more and more news began to appear about other infidelities, which James himself admitted. “There is only one person responsible for this situation and that is me; All of this caused pain and shame to my wife and children. I'm very sorry for doing this to you. I'm so sorry for everything I've caused you. I hope you find the ability in your hearts to forgive me,” he said before entering a rehabilitation clinic to treat his alleged sex addiction. In any case, Sandra had permanently closed the door and was already divorced in 2010.
Sandra Bullock suffered from media exposure and survived it with restraint and few statements to the press. Invision/AP
“We are all where we should be. “You can't look back, and I'm grateful to be here, blessed for what I have,” was the only sentence the actress said in an interview with Vogue about the fate of her marriage. Let us remember that Bullock had a family project with James and that in 2005 she began adopting a child named Louis, who came into her life and completely changed it. “More than four years after I filled out the paperwork and was assessed as a human being, I could look at him and say, 'Oh, there you are.' It fit perfectly on my arm and looked me in the eyes. He was a wise man. “My son was a wise man,” the actress said of the moment she welcomed her first child during a time of uncertainty.
Sienna Miller, engaged to Jude Law, uncovers a betrayal
Sienna Miller and Jude Law, a love that was born on the set and later experienced many twists and turns. archive
In 2004, Jude Law and Sienna Miller were Hollywood's golden couple. Two extremely attractive personalities for the press who were always willing to make statements and be photographed at joint events. The actors fell in love in 2003 on the set of the feature film starring actor Alfie and got engaged when the film was released the following year.
The joy of the engagement lasted a few months: in 2005 The actress discovered that her partner Daisy Wright, the nanny to her three children, was unfaithful., Raff, Iris and Rudy Indiana Otis, the result of his first marriage to Sadie Frost. The news shocked Miller and Law publicly apologized to her amid the scandal. “I just want to say that I am very ashamed and sad that I hurt Sienna and everyone around us. “There is no excuse for my behavior,” the actor said when his infidelity came to light.
Jude Law and Sienna Miller before the actor's infidelity was revealed. archive
“It was really difficult,” Miller recently told The Daily Beast. “I was shocked by everything that happened. And actually I had just started, I was only 23 years old. But when you overcome that, you feel like you can overcome anything,” he revealed, assuring that he had unintentionally erased many painful moments from that time from his memory. “There are whole weeks I can’t remember,” he noted. On the other hand, he spoke about the media control and how he suffered from it: “The photographers always knew where he would be every night. “It was terrible for me.”
In 2009, Miller and Law attempted to get back together, but were unsuccessful. In 2011, They went their separate ways and currently the actress, who is in a relationship with Oli Green, is in contact with the family of the protagonist of “The Talented Mr. Ripley”. In fact, in March of this year, Sienna was seen in great complicity with Sadie Frost, with whom she took part in a documentary about the fashion legend Twiggy.
Sienna Miller with Sadie Frost, Jude Law's first wife. Instagram
“With Jude and the boys, we don't see each other that often, but we care about each other a lot,” said Sienna, who also revealed that she has an excellent relationship with Frost, who was very supportive of her when she found out that she was from the law had been deceived. “I feel very sorry for her,” the shopping actress and the actor’s first wife said at the time.
Reese Witherspoon in the eye of the storm with her first husband
Reese met actor Ryan Phillippe when he was 21 and they married in June 1999. Grosby Group
Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe met when they were young, specifically on the actress' 21st birthday. “I don't know what came over me, maybe the seven drinks I had, but I told him he was my greatest gift and he was flattered, but it was completely embarrassing,” Reese explained in 1998 , a year later that night. The couple married on June 5, 1999 in Charleston, South Carolina, three months before the arrival of their daughter Ava Elizabeth. At the same time, they worked together on the film Sexual Games, a modern adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons.
When the actors welcomed their second son, Deacon, in October 2003, the actor made some statements that caught media attention. “Reese is an intelligent and very smart person, I tend to be dark, and she's trying to get me out of that, out of the depression,” Phillippe revealed, adding, “The industry has made me very insecure.”
Two years later, The marriage was surrounded by rumors of crisis, which peaked when the actors announced in 2007 that they were getting a divorce. “The problem was that we started dating at a very young age, which creates situations in the environment we move in because people can talk and interfere,” Ryan explained.
Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish began a contentious relationship. archive
Reese's version was along the same lines: “I got married at 23 and by 27 I was already a mother of two children, so… I don't know, it's good to know yourself too.” I wouldn't change anything that happened “But now I tell my daughter that when you're 25, you really start to know who you are,” the Oscar winner said. Beyond his sayings, The media claimed that Phillippe had an extramarital affair with his colleague Abbie Cornish during the filming of the film “Stop Loss”. Although the actor denied being unfaithful, he was spotted with the Australian actress a few months after his split from Reese. “It was unfair of them to call Abbie a 'home destroyer.'” I don't think an outside person can cause a divorce. I was having difficulties in my relationship and in my marriage long before I met her,” he said.
However, there was actually an overlap in the data that the media was responsible for highlighting. Cornish, for her part, preferred to live their relationship away from the sexist comments and moved to Los Angeles with Phillippe. “It was love that made me move to this city. “Ryan and I really wanted to live together, and his two kids were there,” said Cornish, who described herself as a “hopeless romantic.” “That’s probably my weakest point,” he added. In 2010, the actors separated and Reese remained silent when the press asked him about the connection with Phillippe and the events with Cornish. Over time, everyone involved was able to heal and move on.
Billy Crudup and a deception that did not go unnoticed
Billy Crudup and his ex-wife Mary-Louise Parker, who was pregnant when the actor fell in love with Claire Danes
At 24 years old, Claire Danes was filming Forbidden Beauty, the Richard Eyre film, when she realized she could no longer hide how in love she was with her co-star Billy Crudup. The actress tried to avoid her feelings because The actor was in a relationship with Mary-Louise Parker, who was seven months pregnant. When Crudup heard what happened to the Danes, he confessed that the feeling was mutual. The scandal erupted when the two began a relationship behind Parker's back, who gave birth to William Atticus in 2004 and read in the press that her partner was dating someone else, a blow from which she found it difficult to recover .
In 2015, Danes was interviewed about this tumultuous time in her life and attempted to put this connection into context. “It scared me a lot, how I was in the eye of the storm, it affected me a lot, but I was just in love with it and I felt like I had to explore that, I have the consequences of what I did “I was fine, but then I was able to get out of there, and when I was fine, being with him was like another step towards adulthood.” When the news “exploded,” the actor called out the media to be careful. “It is something very personal and since it is a baby, my private life should not be in public interest,” he explained.
Claire Danes and Billy Crudup, a couple not without controversy.
For a long time, both Danes and Crudup tried to deny the romance, but when little William was born, the Morning Show actor asked Parker for a divorce in order to “start over” with his new girlfriend. The link didn't work. Two years after the scandal, the couple had already decided to separate. In 2009, the Homeland actress married Hugh Dancy and this year Crudup married Naomi Watts.
Parker also tried to overcome what had happened, and during the filming of the series “Weeds” she became engaged to actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Although the relationship didn't last, the actress achieved the happiness she sought when she adopted a girl, Caroline Aberash. Parker wrote about the Crudup affair in her insightful memoir, Dear Mr. You, published in 2015, about how complex it was for her to live through that moment and how she found a path to healing. “Now I realize that what happened to me was just a part of my life, a single piece of a much larger story, which is also very beautiful,” he explained.