As soon as considered one of Hollywood’s most beloved {couples}, Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe known as it quits in 2006 after seven years of marriage — however the twosome are endlessly linked due to their look-alike youngsters.
Whereas many consider that the twosome met and fell in love whereas filming the 1999 movie Cruel Intentions, Witherspoon confirmed on Watch What Occurs Dwell With Andy Cohen in 2015 that that they had been “residing collectively for a few 12 months and a half” once they shot the movie. She additionally advised Andy Cohen on the time that daughter Ava and son Deacon hadn’t seen the film.
“They’re like, ‘That is so bizarre!’ And particularly seeing me and their dad having intercourse. It’s so bizarre,” she stated on the time. “Not .”
Phillippe, in the meantime, recalled telling their youngsters about making the film throughout a 2014 HuffPost Dwell interview.
“It was humorous — we have been reminiscing then as a result of we shot loads of Merciless Intentions [in New York City], so there we have been with Ava and Deacon speaking, they usually have been tripping out on the truth that we have been there capturing a film earlier than they have been even a thought in our minds,” he stated, noting that the previous spouses have been in a “actually good spot” on the time. “It’s a feeling-out course of. … It’s going properly, and he or she’s joyful and remarried, and our youngsters are unbelievable. I’m happy with the way in which we’ve dealt with it and who our little persons are.”
It wasn’t all the time easy crusing for the twosome, nevertheless. When information of their break up broke in 2006, Phillippe was accused of cheating on Witherspoon with Cease-Loss costar Abbie Cornish.
“I’m not an ideal particular person, however I’m not responsible of loads of the issues I’ve been accused of. My precedence is and all the time has been the well being and security of my household,” he stated in a press release in November 2006.
Phillippe and Cornish went on thus far till February 2010. He later welcomed a daughter with then-girlfriend Alexis Knapp in 2011. Witherspoon, for her half, married expertise agent Jim Toth and gave start to son Tennessee in September 2012.
In 2014, the Massive Little Lies star recalled how her break up from Phillippe — which got here months after she received her first Oscar — affected her profession.
“Phew, that was a tricky 12 months that adopted. I received divorced the subsequent 12 months and I spent just a few years simply attempting to really feel higher,” Witherspoon stated on 60 Minutes. “You recognize, you may’t actually be very inventive whenever you really feel like your mind is scrambled eggs. I used to be simply sort of floundering career-wise trigger I wasn’t making issues I used to be captivated with, I used to be simply kinda working. It was actually clear the audiences weren’t responding to something I used to be placing on the market.”
Scroll by way of for a timeline of Witherspoon and Phillippe’s ups and downs:
