My last entry was about Ryan Phillippe, and how he and Reese Witherspoon keep their marriage alive.
They split up yesterday.
Their representative released a statement saying: ‘We are saddened to announce that Reese and Ryan have decided to formally separate. They remain committed to their family and we ask that you please respect their privacy and the safety of their children at this time.’
Reese and Ryan (THEIR NAMES EVEN SOUND GOOD TOGETHER) have two children: Ava, 7, and Deacon, 3. Since they got married (they were both in their early 20s), they have been constantly surrounded by rumours of a split. They have been married for seven years now. They met at her 21st birthday, and as you may recall, starred in Cruel Intentions together, which is when they fell in love.
Reese, who is now 30, won an Oscar this year for her role in ‘Walk the Line’ and some people are speculating that Ryan, 32, became jealous of her fame.
What I liked about these two though, is that they would never deny that they didn’t have a perfect marriage, that they weren’t perfect, and that they had their own problems.
Witherspoon once told People magazine: ‘I’m not interested in the fallacy of the Hollywood relationship: we have perfect children who never cry; we never have problems; we never argue, we’re always best friends. That’s just not true. We’re normal people with normal problems.’
Phillippe, who is currently starring in Clint Eastwood’s ‘Flags of our Fathers’, also had hinted that everything was not perfect and revealed that they were in marriage counselling.
‘The biggest mistake is not doing that, ignoring it and having the marriage fall apart because of laziness,’ he said.
Well I take it the counselling didn’t work?
I never even considered this a possibility. They were perfect for eachother. I am just shocked.
Oh well, we all know what this means ladies: WE ALL HAVE A CHANCE WITH RYAN NOW!!!
http://www.thegrapevinegossip.com/2006/10/31/i-am-shocked/
