Meryl Streep and Husband Don Gummer Have Been Separated for Six Years

Meryl Streep and husband Don Gummer have introduced that they separated six years in the past.

The three-time Oscar winner and her partner of 45 years shared the information of their separation in an announcement from a consultant for Streep obtained by Folks.

“Don Gummer and Meryl Streep have been separated for greater than 6 years, and whereas they’ll at all times look after one another, they’ve chosen lives aside,” it learn.

The couple haven’t posed on a purple carpet collectively for the reason that ninetieth Academy Awards, the place Streep was nominated for her function as Katharine Graham in The Publish. Nonetheless, on the Princesa de Asturias Awards in Asturias, Spain, on Friday, the Solely Murders within the Constructing actress was carrying her wedding ceremony band in images.

Streep and Gummer met shortly after her longtime companion John Cazale died of lung most cancers in 1978. They acquired married in September of that yr after six months of relationship and welcomed their first youngster, Henry Wolfe, in November 1979. They’ve three different children — Louisa Jacobson, Grace Gummer and Mamie Gummer — in addition to 5 grandchildren.

Gummer is a sculptor who, whereas The Satan Wears Prada star was making a reputation for herself as an actress, he was doing the identical within the artwork world.

Although neither one have spoken about their decades-long marriage all that a lot, Streep advised Vogue that the key to their lengthy marriage was “goodwill and willingness to bend — and to close up each occasionally.”

She continued, “There’s no highway map on elevate a household: It’s at all times an infinite negotiation. However I’ve a holistic must work and to have big ties of affection in my life. I can’t think about eschewing one for the opposite.”