I still have it! Julia Roberts and her husband, Danny Moderhave been together for over 20 years, but their relationship is stronger than ever.
The pair met in the early 2000s while the Oscar winner was filming The Mexican alongside Brad Pitt. Although they are now one of the longest-running couples in Hollywood, their romance started with a minor scandal.
When they met, the Erin Brockovich star was dating Benjamin Brattwhile the cameraman was married to Vera Steinberg. After Moder finalized his divorce from Steimberg in 2002, he married Roberts in a July 2002 ceremony at her ranch in New Mexico.
Roberts later claimed that she was not the cause of the couple’s breakup, but rumors about the situation dogged the actress for years. “He arranged his whole thing apart and apart from me,” she said in December 2003. “And I arranged my life, separate and apart from him. I think that’s the only reason we were able to fall in love and be together in the end.”
When asked in the same interview if she was responsible for Moder’s divorce, she replied, “I’m an easy person to point the finger at — ‘she did it’ — and I can see it.” I don’t begrudge people the easy finger pointing. It’s just not like that.”
Aside from how it started, the romance between Roberts and Moder was very different from her previous relationships in that the cameraman was considerably less famous than his wife. She was briefly engaged to her Flatliners Co-star Kiefer Sutherlandbut they separated in 1991, just days before their planned wedding.
In 1993 she married country singer Lyle Lovett, whom she met just three weeks before their wedding. They separated in 1995. The Closer star was also previously linked to Dylan McDermott, Matthew Perry, Jason Patrick And Liam Neeson.
Roberts later suggested that none of her relationships had shocked her as much as meeting Moder. “I think the first real… ‘seismic shift’ was meeting Danny,” she said Gwyneth Paltrow in 2018. “Marry Danny. That was the first, like my life will never be the same again in the most incredible, indescribable way.
The duo welcomed twins Phinnaeus and Hazel in November 2004. Their third child, son Henry, was born in June 2007. told In style in 2017.
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