Michelle Williamshassplitfrom her husband, musicianPhil Elverum, after less than a year of marriage — but the star has always kept a positive outlook on love.
A source confirmed the news to PEOPLE on Friday that Williams, 38, and Elverum, 40, separated earlier this year, saying, “It was an amicable split and they remain friends.”
Williams revealed they married in a quiet ceremony during an interview withVanity Fairin July 2018. The actress, who has 12-year-old daughter Matilda with the lateHeath Ledger, uncharacteristically opened up about waiting for love.
“I never gave up on love,” theFosse/Verdonstar said about moving on after Ledger died in 2008. “I always say to Matilda, ‘Your dad loved me before anybody thought I was talented, or pretty, or had nice clothes.'”
Williams met Ledger on the set of their filmBrokeback Mountain. They welcomed their daughter in 2005 before splitting in 2007. Five months later, Ledger died of a prescription drug overdose.
Michelle Williams and Heath Ledger.Charles Sykes/REX/Shutterstock
Michelle Williams and Phil Elverum.The Image Direct
After his death, the actress dated actor Jason Segel, Spike Jonze and financial consultant Andrew Youmans. Williams toldVanity Fairher relationship with Elverum gave her something she was searching for.
She continued, “This kind of freedom, it’s the thing that I look for. It’s been a theme in my life. It’s the thing that I experience in Montana, the thing that I experience onstage, the thing that I get in my work in between ‘action’ and ‘cut.'”
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As for keeping her personal life private, Williams said she was more keen on helping others who had experienced grief in their lives.
“I don’t really want to talk about any of it. But what if this helps somebody?” she said. “What if somebody who has always journeyed in this way, who has struggled as much as I struggled, and looked as much as I looked, finds something that helps them?”
She continued, “Don’t settle. Don’t settle for something that feels like a prison or is hard, or hurts you. If it doesn’t feel like love, it’s not love.”
source: people.com
