Billy Crudup left Mary-Louise Parker for Claire Danes when she was 7 months pregnant

The love triangle caused a major scandal.


Another twenty years ago Celebrity scandal made its way to tabloids and the entertainment press when Billy Crudup LEFT Mary-Louise Parker , his seven -year partner, for Claire Danes , his co-star in the film Stage beauty . And although this drama would have made the headlines, in addition to all that, Parker was seven months pregnant with her and the child of Crudup when they separated. During the two decades followed, the three stars involved commented on the love triangle in one way or another. Read the rest to discover what led to the disorderly rupture and to the way dans, Crudup and Parker are feeling now.

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Parker and Crudup separated in 2003.

Billy Crudup and Mary-Louise Parker at the 2002 Emmys
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According to a 2004 New York Times CRUDUP profile, Him and Parker met When they co-star in a renewal of the Broadway play Bus stop In 1996. Their relationship evolved from there, and in 2003, Parker was pregnant with their first child.

In the meantime, the same New York Times The profile describes the Danes as an "old friend" with whom Crudup "got involved" in 2003 after their shooting Stage beauty , a 18th century piece.

Representatives for Parker and Crudup confirmed their split has People In December 2003. "It was difficult for Mary-Louise," said a source close to Parker. "To get pregnant together, and both wanting, and now that it happens - it has been very difficult."

A representative of Crudup said People That he and Parker had ended their relationship for months earlier. A Danes representative said that "Claire has been friends with Billy for 10 years" and that she was still going out with musician Ben Lee .

CRUDUP refused to talk about it in the interviews.

Billy Crudup and Claire Danes at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival
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THE New York Times reported that before being interviewed, they asked the publicist from Crudup if he would answer questions about his break with Parker and a later relationship with the Danes. The actor replied by e-mail that he wanted to "make an argument so as not to include anything" on this subject.

"First and foremost, it is personal, painful and involves an infant, and does not deserve to be exploited to ensure the appetite of traffic meters and bored readers," said the email. "I have never engaged in the erroneous notion of our society that my personal life is relevant for my work, so any ratio surrounding which is necessarily hearing, speculation or fantasy. Each report published is based solely On the trade in suffering. "

Parker has written about it for years later.

Billy Crudup and Mary-Louise Parker at the 2002 Tony Awards
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In 2015, the Memoirs of Parker, Dear M. , in which she wrote letters to various men that she had known or came into contact during her life, was released. THE Weeds Star did not approach Crudup directly in a letter but referred it to the one who was written to a journey of which she was in taxi while she was pregnant.

As Jezebel reported, Parker got angry and shouted To the driver when he got lost to take him to an appointment, and he expelled it from the car. She says that she said to her, "I'm alone. Look, see? I'm pregnant and alone. It hurts to breathe ... I try to go through but I am alone every night and every morning And no one, nothing helps. I'm sorry to have shouted. I can no longer put my shoes. She added in the book: "I realize now that everything I was going through was part of my life, a room of a larger story that is mostly magnificent. "

The Danes also shared his side of history.

Billy Crudup and Claire Danes at an event in New York City in 2006
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Danes and Crudup have continued to date for four years before breaking in 2007. In 2015, She tackled the scandal During an interview Howard Stern . As indicated by US Weekly , the host asked for Country Star what it was to deal with the public's response to the way in which his relationship with Crudup began. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"It was a frightening thing," she said. "It was really difficult. I didn't know how not to do that." She said of their relationship: "I was just in love with him. And I had to explore this and I was 24 years old ... I did not know what these consequences would be." THE Country Star added: "But I'm fine. I crossed it."

From where they were standing for years later, she said, "We are friendly, we are friends."

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Everyone has evolved.

Caroline Aberash Parker, Mary-Louise Parker, and William Atticus Parker at the 2021 Tony Awards
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The three actors have gone to new relationships over the years. The Danes were married to Hugh Dancy Since 2009, and when Crudup has married Naomi Watts In 2023, Parker has shown his support. "Honestly, I wish them of course all happiness because it is my son's father," she said The Guardian . "So I'm happy for them. I'm glad they found themselves."

Parker and Crudup have experienced a copy of their 19 -year -old son, William Atticus Parker , including meeting for events and other activities. THE Daily mail reported that Crudup and William attended a ceremony of reset to support of Parker, and during an interview in 2019 on The Ellen Degeneres show , CRUDUP said that Him and Parker had co-vere In one of their son's student films. Parker also welcomed another child in his life, his daughter Caroline Aberash Parker .

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