Justin Theroux, on his separation from Jennifer Aniston: "It broke our hearts"
The actor claims that they were both concerned if their friendship deteriorated, although he also assures that their divorce was "the kindest of all possible"
Seven months have already passed since the separation of the one who - with the permission of Julia Roberts - came to be considered America's Bride, the actress Jennifer Aniston, and the one who was her husband for two and a half years, the actor and director Justin Theroux. The couple announced that they had ended their relationship in mid-February. "It is a mutual decision made with love at the end of last year," the Friends actress, 49, and the protagonist of The Leftovers, 47, explained in a statement. Apparently, she wanted to make her life in New York and he was not willing to leave Los Angeles, California, which ended up distancing them.
Since then, the two have been quietly silent. In fact, Theroux explained a couple of weeks after the breakup that he didn't intend to talk about his private life and that he had stopped caring what people thought of him: "I keep working, which is the only thing I can do. That when someone I don't know comes and asks me a personal question, I say: 'I don't know what you're talking about.'
However, now the screenwriter, director and producer has given an interview to the style section of The New York Times newspaper in which he gives certain details about their separation process, and in which he explains that it has taken place in a friendly way. , "without aversion". "The good news is that it has probably been - and I am choosing my words with the greatest care - the kindest separation of all possible."
That does not mean that this separation was not sad for both of them. "It broke our hearts, just in the sense that our friendship was not going to be the same, especially on a day-to-day basis," Theroux explained. "But the friendship has been redirected and changed, you know, so it's part of something we're both very proud of." The same they gave to understand when they separated, since the statement in which they informed the media read: "We are two great friends who have decided to break up as a couple, but who hope to continue with their much-loved friendship."
"Really, neither of us has died, neither is willing to throw an ax at the other," Theroux now tells the American newspaper. "It's friendlier. It's boring, you know, we respected each other enough and so it was the least painful we could have."
In early August, Aniston also gave statements about her marriage and did so for InStyle magazine in its US edition, of which she was the cover. She then she spoke about that constant image of her that tries to characterize her as a woman always looking for a partner, that she lives from one failed relationship after another and that, supposedly, she tries to have a child without getting it. "Jen can't keep a man", "Jen refuses to have a baby because she is selfish and she is committed to her career" were some of the prejudiced phrases that she rejected with humor from the pages of the magazine. "There is pressure on women to be mothers (...) Maybe my purpose on this planet is not to procreate," she said.
Theroux and Aniston got married by surprise in their Californian mansion on August 5, 2015 when they had been dating for about four years. It was the first wedding for him, who had been in a relationship with stylist Heidi Bivens for 14 years, until 2011. For her it was the second hers after her media marriage to Brad Pitt, which lasted from 2000 to 2005.
