Ah, the waters rarely run smoothly when Hollywood exes start opening up about their past relationship. I guess everyone cannot be one big, happily united family like Demi and Bruce. The latest celebrity ex couple to sling mud is Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid.
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You may or may not remember, but these two met on the set of Innerspace in 1987 and married on Valentine’s Day 1991. They had one child together, son Jack. You might remember the 2000 film Proof of Life, in which Meg starred with Aussie actor Russell Crowe. While filming the movie (which was actually pretty good, but turned out to be a flop due in part to the scandal), Meg and Russell began an on set affair. The affair was highly publicized and that summer, Meg and Dennis announced their split, which was described in the press release as “mutual and amicable.” But of course it was!
And yet, eight years later, Meg started up the latest round between these two when she told InStyle magazine that Dennis was unfaithful. She said “Dennis was not faithful to me for a very long time, and that was very painful. I found out more about that after I was divorced.” She went on to say that not only did the affair with Russell not break up the marriage, but that she ended up hurting Russell as well because she was not ready for a new relationship.
You had to know Dennis was not going to take this public rehashing of the relationship lying down. He released his own statement which said that Meg’s statements would only remind now 16 year old son Jack of the “pain” and “turmoil” caused by the divorce, and then added “I, myself, moved on years ago and am fortunate to have a happy, beautiful family.” He pointed out that they divorced eight years ago and he found it “unbelievable that Meg continues publicly to rehash and rewrite the story of our relationship.”