Mary Louise Parker and Billy Crudup’s tumultuous break up made headlines when the Nearly Well-known actor left the Weeds alum for Claire Danes.
The previous couple started courting in 1996 after assembly as costars within the Broadway play Bus Cease. The Pink Sparrow actress was seven months pregnant with their son, William, when Crudup ended their relationship in 2003 to pursue a romance with Danes.
The Stage Magnificence costars — who proceeded up to now till 2006 — made an effort to maintain their romance non-public amid the general public backlash. When the New York Occasions did a profile on Crudup in 2004, he despatched an e mail to interviewer Jesse Inexperienced making “an argument for not together with something concerning the Mary-Louise Parker scenario,” noting that the matter was “private, painful and includes an toddler,” in accordance with the outlet.
Parker, for her half, has additionally avoided instantly talking out concerning the break up. Nevertheless, the West Wing alum did allude to the scenario in her 2015 memoir, Expensive Mr. You, in a chapter devoted to a taxi driver she as soon as yelled at for getting misplaced.
After the motive force instructed her to get out of his automobile, saying, “I don’t need you anymore,” Parker broke down, telling him, “Nobody does. … My life is worse than yours on this second. … I’m alone. Look, see? I’m pregnant and alone. It hurts to even breathe.”
Whereas selling the e-book on Right now in November 2015, the California native described the change as a “very low second” in her life however didn’t go into particulars.
“I believe it’s much less about no matter was happening in my life, which is non-public to me, and can all the time stay so,” she instructed Savannah Guthrie on the time. “However I used to be so connected to my very own unhappiness that I used to be unable to kind of rise above feeling persecuted, and it simply created this dynamic with this excellent stranger … and he held up a mirror at my face, he kind of haunted me as a result of I didn’t take into account him or his life.”
Danes, in the meantime — who wed Hugh Dancy in 2009 — addressed her relationship with Crudup throughout an October 2015 look on The Howard Stern Present.
“That was actually arduous. I didn’t know find out how to not try this,” the Temple Grandin star mentioned on the time. “I used to be simply in love with him. And wanted to discover that and I used to be 24. … I didn’t fairly know what these penalties can be.”
Though Parker and Crudup’s love story didn’t final, they continued to coparent their son. (The Maker actress additionally adopted daughter Caroline in 2007). When the Massive Fish actor wed Naomi Watts in June 2023, Parker voiced her assist for the newlyweds.
“I want them properly,” she instructed The Guardian on the time. “I actually after all want them each happiness as a result of that’s my son’s father. So, I’m completely happy for them. I’m completely happy they discovered one another.”
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