After the breakup in 2017, several years passed before the actors Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor Good luck.
Now, after nearly 25 years of marriage, Stiller is speaking candidly about their time apart and their decision to try again.
While talking with New York TimesStiller discussed that his marriage was “not in a great place” after he moved from California to New York following his release Zoolander 2, flop That “blind” Steeler.
“There was a lot going on,” Stiller said. “When we broke up, it was just getting the space to see what our relationship was like, what my life felt like when we weren't in that relationship, and how much I loved our family unit.”
“There were three or four years where we weren't together but we were always connected. In my mind, I never wanted us to be together,” he continued.
“I don't know where Christine was, you'll have to ask her, but Covid brought us all together in the same house.”
When a New York Times reporter David Marchese Stiller agreed, describing the timing of their reconciliation as an “act of God.”
““It was about a year of living in the same house before we were actually together,” Stiller explained. “But I'm very grateful for that, and I don't think a lot of people get back together when they break up.”
Stiller and Taylor have two children: daughter Ella, 22, and son Quinlyn, 19.
“There's nothing like that when you come back,” Stiller added. You have more appreciation for what you have, because we know we can't have it.
In conversation with Drew Barrymore In 2023Reconciliation during the pandemic “was for us,” Taylor said.
“We got married very quickly,” Taylor recalls of their 2000 wedding. “We had known each other for six months. We were married within a year and had Ella the following year.”
“I think about us, just life, especially in this business and careers, a lot of work and family has always been a priority, but I think Ben and I are starting to grow in different directions.”
At the time they decided to split, Taylor told Barrymore that it was something they wanted to keep private because it “wasn't something we took seriously.” But they were both at a “dead end” that required them to figure out what was best for each of them.
Spending time away to learn who they are as individuals has allowed them to have “growth spurts even as adults,” Taylor said. She admitted it was time for them, though, as they “always remained a family unit” despite their split.
“We found that way back,” Taylor continued. “We had a lot of time to talk.”
