Making it work! Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux known as it quits in February 2018, however they’ve labored laborious to keep up a friendship since then.
The previous couple met for the primary time in 2007 on the set of Tropic Thunder however didn’t begin courting till 2011 after they reunited as actors within the movie Wanderlust. In August 2015, they tied the knot at their house in Malibu.
The ceremony was so top-secret that even their associates — Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Jason Bateman and Sandra Bullock, to call a number of — didn’t know they had been attending a marriage till they arrived. The sneaky duo had advised them they had been coming over to have a good time Theroux’s birthday.
Two and a half years later, nonetheless, the pair introduced that they had been going their separate methods, however even of their breakup assertion, they saved issues civil.
“In an effort to cut back any additional hypothesis, we’ve determined to announce our separation,” the pair advised Us Weekly in a joint assertion in February 2018. “This determination was mutual and lovingly made on the finish of final 12 months. We’re two greatest associates who’ve determined to half methods as a pair, however stay up for persevering with our cherished friendship.”
Six months later, the Associates alum stated that the cut up wasn’t as devastating as some headlines made it out to be.
“The misconceptions are ‘Jen can’t preserve a person,’ and ‘Jen refuses to have a child as a result of she’s egocentric and dedicated to her profession,’” she advised InStyle in August 2018. “Or that I’m unhappy and heartbroken. First, with all due respect, I’m not heartbroken. And second, these are reckless assumptions. Nobody is aware of what’s happening behind closed doorways. Nobody considers how delicate that could be for my associate and me. They don’t know what I’ve been by medically or emotionally.”
The Inland Empire star echoed his ex’s sentiments one month later, telling The New York Instances that the breakup was as calm as such a factor may very well be.
“The excellent news is that was in all probability essentially the most — I’m selecting my phrases actually rigorously — it was form of essentially the most light separation, in that there was no animosity,” he stated in September 2018. “In a bizarre approach, simply form of navigating the inevitable notion of it’s the exhausting half.”
Since then, the twosome have stayed in one another’s lives. In 2019, they even spent Thanksgiving along with associates together with Bateman and Cox, and every February, Theroux needs Aniston glad birthday by way of social media.
Maintain scrolling to learn every thing the previous couple have stated about their friendship:
