we are saddened to announce that reese
and ryan have decided to formally
separate
whoa hollywood of the 2000s could expect
such heartbreaking news from whichever
star couple
but not rhys witherspoon and ryan
phillippe everyone thought it was a
match made in heaven the cruel
intentions co-stars love was in the
limelight for eight years
and showed no signs of troubles they
welcomed two beautiful children
while still building their stellar
careers i mean it's weird
like you know he looks so she looks
exactly like her mother
who else is she gonna look like they
went through all kinds of difficulties
side by side
it changed who i was on a cellular level
they were shining so bright
and then all of a sudden divorce yeah
have you ever wondered why they split
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you might think that reese and ryan met
each other on the set of cruel
intentions in 1999
but in fact their romance started two
years earlier
when witherspoon threw a party on her
21st birthday
ryan came there with a mutual friend of
theirs according to the actress
she went up to him and said i think
you're my birthday present
apparently she got everything right the
two clicked immediately though it
probably wasn't love at first sight
i think i'm falling in love with you
you don't even know me don't you believe
in love at first sight
yeah but only when it's mutual 21 year
old reese and 23 year old ryan were only
calling and texting each other from time
to time
mainly because philippe was very busy
filming i know what you did last summer
after a month of long-distance
correspondence reece went to visit ryan
on set
when the filming wrapped the actors went
on a road trip and returned from it as a
happy couple
then they moved in together and settled
down in beverly hills
rumors about their romance started
swirling instantly with their blonde
hair
blue eyes and charming smiles the two
seemed to belong together
however they had absolutely different
characters and it was for the best
why because their differences helped the
two young souls to establish a working
relationship
as philippe revealed to the morning call
back in 1999
there was a definite balance there reece
is a happy lighthearted person
but she's also incredibly intelligent i
tend to be considerably darker
she keeps me from getting too dark and
depressed sounds idyllic huh
well it wasn't for instance neither one
of them knew how to run a household
they didn't know how to cook they didn't
even know how to use the stove and oven
so they had to learn we were helpless in
the kitchen
and after a while it got ridiculous
ordering out for food or going to
restaurants every night
the partners both in their early 20s
bought a lot of cookbooks and studied
them together
until they chose their own set of
favorite recipes also the actors didn't
hesitate to ask their moms for advice
eventually the couple's domestic routine
got much better and their relationship
got stronger
after less than a year of living
together philippe proposed a witherspoon
and she agreed without hesitating
together yeah we did a wonderful movie
called cruel intentions
he plays sebastian belmont he's very
wonderful
well it was our first time working
together and it was a great experience
and that's kind of what we yeah that was
our that was our thing so
wait so they were already engaged while
filming cruel intentions
what a twist however rhys wasn't
initially interested in portraying
annette
she did it only because ryan asked her
to the lovebirds once went out for
dinner with their mutual friend
who by complete accident was the cruel
intentions director roger kumble
witherspoon didn't know philippe had
already signed on to portray sebastian
i thought we were all just going to
dinner as friends and then roger and
ryan asked me to do the movie
philippe recalled that dinner as follows
we drank a lot of wine
we were wooing her she loved the movie
for me but it wasn't a great part at the
time for her
she helped roger turn it into one it's
true
after feeling as though annette was one
dimensional witherspoon helped her write
a better character
reese didn't want a net to be influenced
by a guy's manipulations
she then revealed that this idea
eventually transformed into a much
bigger mission in her life
the mission of questioning stereotypes
around female characters in the film
industry
another essential part of the cruel
intentions creation was the electric
chemistry between witherspoon and
philippe
the actor's off-screen relationship
fueled it ryan had a noteworthy comment
on that
i was romanticizing going through
torture to do good work and i was in
love
the off-screen relationship certainly
made things more real or more intense
you have a deeper connection according
to both philippe and witherspoon
their real-life relationship made their
breakup scene challenging to film
you mean nothing to me in that scene
annette slaps sebastian
in a gesture that was famously
improvised by witherspoon and she cried
and i'd see there and i'm
you know playing this character but i'm
looking in her eyes and i ended up
throwing up that day later on
yeah because i was just kind of worked
up the whole day philippe even threw up
after shooting that moment
i hit him and it upset him we were young
and we just had heightened emotions
but it was great it was a special time
what made that time even more special
was probably reese's unexpected
pregnancy
reese was extremely nervous about
motherhood ava wasn't planned and
suddenly i was faced with the prospect
of becoming a mother and i had never
even held a newborn in my arms before
witherspoon and philippe tied the knot
when the actress was six months pregnant
they welcomed their first child daughter
ava in 1999
four years later their son deacon was
born according to reese
ryan was a much cooler parent than she
the actor's mother used to run a daycare
center
so he learned how to professionally
change a diaper within just five seconds
witherspoon felt like she went through a
crash course in motherhood
indeed i really believe my kids will
understand it when i get older
but it would be fair to say that both of
them went through a crash course of
juggling everything at once
remember they had to combine raising two
children and running successful careers
while still being in their 20s can you
imagine how overwhelming it was
no wonder it had an impact on their
relationship in 2002
witherspoon and philippe were presenting
together at the oscars
the actor then made a joke that his wife
should announce the winner all by
herself
because she made more money than him and
the oscar goes to
let me read it you make more than i do
whoa that was harsh many fans were left
wondering if there was some jealousy in
their relationship
philippe was arguably a bigger star
during the 90s but then
presumably after the success of legally
blonde witherspoon became more famous
so she had much larger paychecks than
her husband the sweet home alabama star
talked openly
about going to marriage counseling both
reece and ryan sincerely wanted to keep
their relationship on track
they perceived their marriage quote not
as a free ride but as a partnership they
worked on
rhys said once love is a beautiful thing
but you've gotta nurture it through the
50 things that come during the day
like driving the kids to school figuring
out who's picking up the in-laws from
the airport
and working when one of your kids is
running a high fever those are the
normal things that stress every couple
they wanted to be more open with each
other both did their best to feel good
even under the pressure of fame
early parenthood and emotional
whirlwinds but unfortunately
they didn't succeed this isn't working
out for me anymore
yeah me neither
in october 2006 reese witherspoon and
ryan phillippe announced that they had
separated
not divorced though at that time a
paparazzo caught the actors arguing at
the flags of our father premiere
a month after announcing they had
separated witherspoon filed for divorce
she gave the classic celebrity divorce
line irreconcilable differences
many presumed it wasn't the full story
the ex-spouses revealed new details
almost 10 years later but wait for it
let's stick to the timeline
reese and ryan handled a split
differently according to ryan he had a
hard time getting out of bed
during the first post-separation months
rhys for some reason found the divorce
to be humiliating
it's important to mention the x's didn't
get a prenup while tying the knot
at the time of their divorce witherspoon
was commanding approximately 20 million
dollars per film
while philippe was getting 2.5 million
but he's probably
best known for being rhys witherspoon's
ex i'm sorry ryan but that's probably
under california law ryan was entitled
to 50 of reese's earnings during their
marriage
but eventually he didn't ask for any
spousal support or child support
he only asked for joint custody of their
two children it seems like the two have
managed to remain civil and respectful
to each other
okay cool but seriously why did the
stars split then
being married to a famous person reese
witherspoon ex
actually yeah being married to it uh
was that part of the problem to people
in the same business
in 2015 nine years after the divorce
philippe shared his thoughts with larry
king
regarding the real reasons for their
separation i think i think more of the
problem was
age you know when we got together so
young
i think it can create issues uh to
people in this industry because
there's so much noise that goes along
with it
witherspoon echoed something similar in
2017. you know i got married when i was
only 23
and i had two kids by the time i was 27.
the actress noted however that she
wouldn't change anything about that
still she keeps telling her daughter
that only by the age of 25
you start to understand yourself a
little better good point reece
so the actors were too young to handle
both their family life and their careers
and that's it
almost when the news broke that
witherspoon and philippe were done
it came out that the i know which you
did last summer actor got a little too
close with his stop-loss co-star abby
cornish
sources claim they saw philippine
cornish kissing at a japanese restaurant
note that he was still married at the
time philippe insisted that he and
cornish were nothing more than co-stars
however two years after his split from
witherspoon he went public with his
relationship with cornish
oh well witherspoon married talent agent
jim toth in 2011
and the next year the two welcomed a son
the oscar-winning actress has doubled
down on producing projects she's
passionate about
including 2014's gone girl and wild both
of which she produced
one of her recent breakthroughs was the
morning show for which she was highly
praised
both my critics and the audience and
what about philippe's life after divorce
the actor welcomed his third child
daughter kai in 2011
with then girlfriend alexis knapp then
he got engaged with paulina slagged her
but the two split in late 2016.
back in 2019 philippe was sued after his
then girlfriend elsie hewitt accused him
of domestic violence
reece witherspoon volunteered to testify
in her ex-husband's case
she claimed in a public statement that
he'd never been violent to her or any
other woman she knew
it seems that reese and ryan still have
a working relationship
as co-parents and old friends even
though the star's marriage story didn't
have a happily ever after ending
they will always remain one of the most
beautiful and inspiring couples
hollywood has ever seen
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