Meryl Streep and Husband Don Gummer Have Been Separated for Six Years
Meryl Streep and husband Don Gummer have announced that they separated six years ago.
The three-time Oscar winner and her spouse of 45 years shared the news of their separation in a statement from a representative for Streep obtained by People.
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“Don Gummer and Meryl Streep have been separated for more than 6 years, and while they will always care for each other, they have chosen lives apart,” it read.
The couple haven’t posed on a red carpet together since the 90th Academy Awards, where Streep was nominated for her role as Katharine Graham in The Post. However, at the Princesa de Asturias Awards in Asturias, Spain, on Friday, the Only Murders in the Building actress was wearing her wedding band in photographs.
Streep and Gummer met shortly after her longtime partner John Cazale died of lung cancer in 1978. They got married in September of that year after six months of dating and welcomed their first child, Henry Wolfe, in November 1979. They have three other kids — Louisa Jacobson, Grace Gummer and Mamie Gummer — as well as five grandchildren.
Gummer is a sculptor who, while The Devil Wears Prada star was making a name for herself as an actress, he was doing the same in the art world.
Though neither one has spoken about their decades-long marriage all that much, Streep told Vogue that the secret to their long marriage was “goodwill and willingness to bend — and to shut up every once in a while.”
She continued, “There’s no road map on how to raise a family: It’s always an enormous negotiation. But I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can’t imagine eschewing one for the other.”
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