Both Meg Ryan AND Dennis Quaid Should Shut Up!
Seriously, are there any people left in Showbizland who have even a modicum of sense? Or did they sign that away when they agreed to fame and fortune?
Case in point: Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid. Former spouses who went so far as to have a child together before going their separate ways, they had pretty much kept hushy-mouthed over personal details in their lives. Until now, that is…when one has a movie to promote and interviews to give, all bets are apparently off. Meg has been running her mouth about the painful breakup of her marriage, saying that while she may have had an affair she was simply following Dennis’ lead:
Ryan’s freedom from conventional values revealed itself when she began an affair in 2000 with Russell Crowe, her co-star in Proof of Life, as her nine-year marriage to Dennis Quaid was falling apart. Suddenly, much of the enormous public affection for her turned to anger, and everything was affected: her image, her career, her sense of self. “It was a great story,” she says. “But what wasn’t in the story was the reality of my marriage…” And what was the reality? After a pause, Ryan says quietly, “Dennis was not faithful to me for a long time, and that was very painful…”
This is surprising—the story splashed across magazine covers at the time cast her as the cheater. “I think when things get played out that simply in black-and-white, it makes people feel good… The tabloid culture can’t tell a complicated story.” But Ryan is committed to the complicated story. She wasn’t the stereotypical long-suffering wife, nor was Quaid a monster. Meg is adamant: “I am not a victim. I was there. I was in that marriage for a really long time.”
Ryan did get a little lost in the tabloid story of her marriage and divorce. “Some days you think, This is so crazy, and you are all intellectual about it,” Ryan explains. “And other days, it’s just really, really painful.” She knew she could have filled in the details of Quaid’s cheating, which would have made it clear that she was not the one who wandered over the many years of their relationship. And she now wonders about her choice to say nothing at all: “I think I made a mistake in not talking more specifically.”
Dennis, for his part, is so angry that Meg has been talking about their personal, uhm, affairs to the press, that he has unleashed his ire, and you guessed it, it appears in the media:
“It was eight years ago, and I find it unbelievable that Meg continues publicly to rehash and rewrite the story of our relationship,” the actor tells us exclusively. “Also, I find it regrettable that our son, Jack, has to be reminded in a public way of the turmoil and pain that every child feels in a divorce.” [...]
Quaid, who went on to marry real estate agent Kimberly Buffington and have twins last November, adds: “I, myself, moved on years ago and am fortunate to have a happy, beautiful family.”
Nothing says “I hate my ex slamming me in the media,” like using the media to slam your ex back. Way to think about your kid and their feelings, you two chuckleheads.
I think my work here is done.
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The time and place was 8 years ago, not now. Also, does anyone know why Meg Ryan’s face is melting? It’s scaring me. A lot.
Comment by D — September 30, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
I know it’s pretty freaky, she’s beginning to look like Jocelyn Wildenstein!
Comment by Jannah — September 30, 2008 @ 7:18 pm
Maybe it’s just a bad pic of Ryan. I hope for her sake it is; not aging well otherwise.
I may be the only one who feels this way but I don’t find Dennis in the least bit attractive.
Comment by Rachel — September 30, 2008 @ 8:58 pm
Got bad news…it isn’t. The photos of her lately are all like that, it’s what bad plastic surgery does to your face. They call it “trout pout”…too much stuff injected into the lips trying to get a beestung look.
Comment by k — September 30, 2008 @ 9:02 pm