As soon as one in every 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 perpetually linked due to their look-alike youngsters.
Whereas many consider that the twosome met and fell in love whereas filming the 1999 film Merciless Intentions, Witherspoon confirmed on Watch What Occurs Reside With Andy Cohen in 2015 that they’d been “residing collectively for a few yr and a half” once they shot the movie. She additionally informed 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 .”
It wasn’t at all times clean crusing for the twosome, nonetheless. When information of their cut up broke in 2006, Phillippe was accused of dishonest on Witherspoon with Cease-Loss costar Abbie Cornish.
“I’m not an ideal individual, however I’m not responsible of lots of the issues I’ve been accused of. My precedence is and at all times 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 delivery to son Tennessee in September 2012. Witherspoon and Toth introduced in March 2023 that they had been divorcing after practically 12 years of marriage.
Scroll by way of for a timeline of Witherspoon and Phillippe’s ups and downs:
