Christine Taylor hopes honesty about Ben Stiller reunion helps others
The 54-year-old actress shares two children with Ben, who she wed in 2000, but the pair announced their separation in 2017.
Christine Taylor wants more people to talk about how therapy helped their relationship, after crediting counselling for saving her marriage to Ben Stiller.
The 54-year-old actress shares two children with Ben, who she wed in 2000, but the pair announced their separation in 2017.
They confirmed in 2022 that they were back together, and Christine said in a chat on the McBride Rewind podcast that it was the Covid-19 pandemic, and the therapy sessions she and Ben had during the lockdown, that helped them get back on track.
Christine said: “If there’s a silver lining for us during Covid, that was the little gift. We all kind of bubbled up together with our kids. Our daughter was graduating high school at the time, our son was graduation eighth grade. We all were in the house together and we had nothing but time.
“So Ben and I spent a lot of time just working on us with a therapist and we'd log into Zoom and we'd do our therapy sessions and really found the way back. I think it's something people don't love to talk about because it feels like a failure.
“By the way, if the right answer for us was that it didn't work, but we were able to figure that out very clearly and focused, then that's great too.
'Life moves at such a rapid pace that we don't often take the time to just pause and say, ‘Okay, he looked at his stuff, I looked at my stuff’… long-term marriages are a lot of work.”
Now, Christine and Ben are “really stronger and better than ever”, and she’s hoping that opening up about the situation will help others be more honest about their own issues
She added: “I feel really comfortable talking about it because I think it's really important for people to feel like that's okay.”
The Zoolander star also said that the actual decision to separate wasn’t one they made easily.
She said: “I can talk about it now... but in the moment, I mean, it was very difficult to come to that decision.
“It was not light. It was not without a heavy heart and feeling really, even, dejected at the time of like this is not how I imagined it was going to be and we should have been able to work it out.”
