The similar yr Cruel Intentions was launched, he wed his co-star, Reese Witherspoon, his long-time girlfriend who was on the time six months pregnant with their daughter.
Contrary to well-liked perception, the previous couple did not really meet on the set of the movie. They crossed paths for the primary time in 1997, at Witherspoon’s twenty first birthday celebration.
Witherspoon gave beginning to their daughter Ava in 1999, and their son Deacon in 2003, earlier than the couple filed for divorce in 2007 after seven years of marriage, citing irreconcilable variations because the trigger.
“I was so, so young, I was, like, ridiculously young,” Witherspoon mentioned of her relationship with Phillippe in a 2011 interview with ELLE.
“I learnt a lot, though. It was an excellent opportunity for me to really find out what it means to be a partner and to be in a marriage and it’s not anything that I thought it was. You can’t say, ‘I don’t want to talk about that’. You just can’t. You’ve got to talk about it all.”
Phillippe was additionally compelled to disclaim rumours their marriage breakdown was a results of an alleged affair with actress Abbie Cornish.
“I’m not a perfect person, but I’m not guilty of a lot of the things I have been accused of,” Phillippe introduced in a press release in November 2006.
“My priority is and always has been the health and safety of my family.”