Famous widowers and widows

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

In May of this year, a sad event happened: 39-year-old producer Simon Monjack was found dead in his own home. The fact that the man passed away six months after the death of his star wife, actress Brittany Murphy, who died of pneumonia, makes this incident even more tragic. Monjack was inconsolable: their marriage lasted only two and a half years, the couple was at the beginning of their joint journey. Among the world's stars, there are many people who have survived the death of the second half. And each of them coped with the trouble in their own way …

Pierce Brosnan

In 1978, when Pierce was 25 years old, he fell in love at first sight with Australian actress Cassandra Harris. This beauty played one of the Bond girls in the movie "For Your Eyes Only". A year after meeting, they got married, and Brosnan adopted Cassandra's children Charlotte and Christopher. It was the wife who persuaded the actor to move from England to America and try his luck in Hollywood. She has repeatedly said that he was created for the role of agent 007. In 1982, Pierce began acting in the television series Remington Steele and received his first fame. A year later, Pierce and Cassandra have a son, Sean William. The next five years were happy and cloudless. And in 87, Cassandra was diagnosed with cancer … Several years of struggle with the disease were terrible, the actor took on any job in order to be able to pay the huge bills for the treatment of his beloved woman. Cassandra died in Pierce's arms in December 1991. The pain of the loss was overwhelming. He wanted nothing more, nothing pleased him, and an actor without a twinkle in his eyes was a downed pilot.

Chance helped: Timothy Dalton refused to star in the next episode of Bond, and in 1993 the role of agent 007 was offered to handsome Brosnan. Pierce rushed to work: Cassandra would like that.

The first film with the participation of the widower Brosnan "Golden Eye" became the most commercially successful Bond film. And in 1994 he met the journalist Keely Smith, with whom he fell in love and who became his wife.

Keanu Reeves

This actor knows firsthand what trouble is. His wife Jennifer Syme died a year and a half after her unborn child died in the womb. Keanu and Jen's wedding was supposed to take place on November 23, 1999, and the birth of their daughter was expected in January 2000. Neither one nor the other was destined to happen. A week before the birth, something went wrong … The doctors said: a blood clot in the umbilical cord. Jennifer was never able to recover from her grief. She began to drink a lot, became unsociable. Keanu could not console her: he himself felt bad. On the night of April 3, 2001, Jennifer crashed in a car. After the examination, it turned out that the 29-year-old girl at the time of the accident was under the influence of drugs. The already withdrawn Keanu withdrew completely.

Only work saved him. The actor was offered thirty million dollars for shooting the second part of "The Matrix", the role of Hamlet in the Canadian theater and Constantine in the thriller of the same name. He didn’t agree to everything. A lot of work is one of the best ways to numb the pain.

Liam Neeson

He's been snapped up lately: the action films "Hostage" and "Team A", fantasy "Clash of the Titans", the thriller "Chloe". After the death of his beloved wife Natasha Richardson, the only thing left is to work hard. The actress died on March 17, 2009 in an accident. It happened at the fashionable ski resort Mont Tremblant in Canada. During one of the classes, she fell and hit her head, but no one suspected that something was wrong: the actress had no external injuries. Despite the instructor's persuasion to see a doctor, she decided that this was not necessary … If Liam was there, he would make her go to the hospital: he was always so caring, he loved her so … They met in 1984 while working at TV, and got married ten years later. They had two sons. When in one of the newspapers they published gossip that he was allegedly getting a divorce, an enraged Liam filed a lawsuit. The publisher paid $ 85,000 for this gossip, but Liam and Natasha did not achieve this at all: they only needed a refutation. The couple donated the amount received to help victims of the August 15 bombing in Omaha. For this act, Neeson was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1999. But he did not need all these titles, because he had his beloved wife and adored children next to him.

The role in the film "Love Actually", where the actor played a widower trying to establish a life with an orphaned stepson, became prophetic: a few years later his real wife was gone. The actor plunged into work and raising his sons. Fortunately, this lifebuoy did not disappoint him.

These widowers turned out to be strong in spirit and could not give up, at least for the sake of the children.

Michelle Williams

Heath Ledger was found dead on January 22, 2008 in his Manhattan apartment. Most of the guy's acquaintances are sure that his parting with his beloved woman Michelle Williams is to blame. They met while filming Brokeback Mountain. The romance was stormy and passionate. Everyone who witnessed this suddenly flared up feeling said: "This is not passion, this is love at first sight." Already in 2005, Michelle gave birth to a daughter, Matilda. However, two years later - in September 2007 - the couple broke up. Few people understood what was happening, because the actors really loved each other. Rumor has it that both Heath and Michelle were terribly busy at work and saw each other once a month, and this undermined the relationship. They parted as friends, but no matter how hard Ledger tried to hold on, depression devoured him from the inside. Most of all, he was tormented by the inability to often see his daughter. Hit adored her: talking about the child was his favorite topic in the circle of friends. Apparently, the actor could not cope with his feelings: death came due to the abuse of antidepressants and painkillers … And then it was time for Michelle to suffer. Of course, her feelings for Ledger hadn't gone away. She hoped for a renewal of their relationship. After the actress heard the terrible news, she suspended work on all her projects.

10 months after Heath's death, she tried to give an interview … It was interrupted in the middle: the actress had a tantrum after the journalist's question about Ledger.

Michelle is now planning to start filming a documentary about Heath. This is her way out of her trouble.