Ben Stiller is opening up about an extremely weak time in his life.
The “Severance” director talks about his 2017 separation from his spouse, Christine Taylor, in a brand new documentary he made about his late mother and father, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.
Stiller says within the documentary, “Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost,” that due to how related his actor mother and father’ careers have been, he didn’t wish to make that very same mistake when he began seeing Taylor, who can be an actor.
“I do feel like there was history, and I think a lot of it was your experience of what that ultimately meant for a relationship that it could put extra strain when you’re eating, sleeping, breathing each other in that way,” Taylor tells Stiller, through Folks journal. “I also felt like there was a fear from you for me of what that would look like to the outside world. I mean it was very loaded.”
Stiller put it merely, stating, “I don’t want to become my parents.”
Nonetheless, when he and Taylor went on to separate in 2017, he had a distinct considered how his relationship associated to his mother and father.
“When we separated my feeling was like ‘Oh, I’m failing at this,’” he shared. “And look at my parents, they have this incredible 50 plus year marriage and I can’t live up to that.”
Stiller and Taylor finally didn’t keep separated and publicly introduced that they have been again on in 2022.
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The “Night at the Museum” actor advised Esquire that the 2 reunited throughout the coronavirus pandemic, after they moved again in collectively to be with their two youngsters, Ella and Quinlin.
“Then, over the course of time, it evolved,” the now-59-year-old shared on the time. “We were separated and got back together and we’re happy about that. It’s been really wonderful for all of us. Unexpected, and one of the things that came out of the pandemic.”
Taylor additionally spoke in regards to the two’s reunion throughout an look on “The Drew Barrymore Show” in 2023.
“Family was always a priority, but I think Ben and I both sort of started to grow in different directions,” Taylor mentioned of the couple’s resolution to separate.
“That time apart for each of us to sort of get to know who we are,” she later added. “I think we have these growth spurts even as adults.”
