Ryan Phillippe
He posts a 90s photo with ex-wife Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe at a performance in 2001.
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Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe fell in love in the 90s. The actor apparently likes to think back on it.
Ryan Phillippe (49) has posted a photo of himself and his ex-wife Reese Witherspoon (48) in his Instagram stories. “We were hot and drenched in late 90’s angst @reesewitherspoon (a way cooler time than today),” the actor wrote under the picture.
In the photo, the former couple have their arms around each other. Witherspoon is wearing a black and white striped halter neck dress with a bow on the collar and a chin-length bob. Phillippe has a mohawk and three-day beard in the snapshot. He also presents a sleeveless, blue and white striped shirt with a collar, black pants and dark sunglasses.
Hollywood stars were married for nine years
Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon are said to have met at her 21st birthday party in 1997 and shortly afterwards played the leading roles in “Cruel Intentions” alongside Selma Blair (51). In 1999, the two stars married six months after their engagement.
Phillippe and Witherspoon were married for nine years and had two children, daughter Ava (24) and son Deacon (20). The actors finally separated in October 2006, but continued to care for their children together. Phillippe once revealed in an interview with “W Magazine” that the divorce was “the darkest, saddest place I’ve ever been.” He didn’t get out of bed for about “four or five months,” the star said. “It was the worst time of my life.”
A large patchwork family
Witherspoon married Jim Toth (53) in 2011 after a two-year relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal (43) and had a son, Tennessee (11), with him. In March 2023, she and Toth announced their separation. Phillippe has not yet remarried, but had a daughter, Kai (12), with his ex-girlfriend Alexis Knapp (34).