Connecting celebrity marriages with reminiscent marriage cues

8. Mel and Robyn Gibson

The pair met in the late 1970s in Australia and wedded in 1980. They went on to have seven kids. Everything seemed well and normal, and then Mel was busted for drunk driving in Malibu in September 2006. Reportedly, that’s when things really fell apart. Robyn filed for divorce in April 2009 and was finalized in December 2011. Robyn obtained a divorce settlement of more than $425 million. Not only that, but she would split the residuals from all projects Mel worked on during their marriage for the rest of her life. His life became a lot messier and more complicated in the years since his divorce, but Robyn has remained tight-lipped on the matter.

Matthew 5:32 But I say to you, whoever divorces his wife (unless the marriage is unlawful) causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. 

9. Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston

After being set up on a blind date by their agents in 1998, they became one of the most beloved couples in Hollywood. Their $1 million Malibu wedding in July 2000 was the stuff of fairy tales. However, rumors began swirling about difficulty in paradise in 2005. They publicized their separation in March of that year when he was filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith with Angelina Jolie. Although they refute unfaithfulness, Pitt has since disclosed that he fell in love with Jolie while they were co-stars. His divorce with Aniston was confirmed in October 2005.

Mark 10:11-12 He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."

10. Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen

When he met Denise Richards on the set of Good Advice in 2000, the actor had already been reputed for being a bit of a partier and gigolo. They started dating seriously in 2001 and married the following year. However, the marriage wasn’t destined to prosper. Richards filed for divorce in 2005 on a ground that Sheen had been abusive and infidel. She claimed that the actor had addictions to pornography and prostitutes. The divorce wasn’t final until 2006, and the couple were eminently alienated for a long time thereafter. Incredibly, though, they turned to be friends again, and Richards even momentarily took care of Sheen’s twins from a subsequent marriage.

Luke 16:18 Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery. 

11. Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin

They met in 1990 and tied the knot three years after. Circumstances weren’t going so well by the time 2000 rolled around. In a separation, Basinger stated that Baldwin had been physically and emotionally abusive. The divorce was final in 2002, but that wasn’t the end of the drama brought by ensuing custody battle over their daughter played out for a very long time. At one point, Baldwin briefly lost visitation rights due to Basinger’s allegations. Later, he infamously left their daughter a very nasty voicemail, which publicized and definitely didn’t paint him in a very compassionate light.

Mark 10:2-9 The Pharisees approached and asked, "Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?" They were testing him. He said to them in reply, "What did Moses command you?" They replied, "Moses permitted him to write a bill of divorce and dismiss her." But Jesus told them, "Because of the hardness of your hearts he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother (and be joined to his wife), and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate." 

12. Robin Williams and Marsha Garces

They didn’t meet in a traditional way. She was actually nanny of his kids when they met in 1989. They ended up being married for 19 years. Sadly, Williams, who had quit drinking decades earlier, weakened in 2006. Despite a period in rehab, it has been said that he never truly became restrained for long after that which caused huge strain on the marriage until they split up “amicably” in 2010. The lovable actor remarried subsequently, but his personal dilemmas apparently prolonged. Regrettably, he never got over the deterioration that doomed his marriage to Garces, and he committed suicide on August 11, 2014.

1 Peter 4:8  Above all, let your love for one another be intense, because love covers a multitude of sins. 

13. Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise

The couple met on the set of Days of Thunder. Kidman was only 23 when they married in 1990. However, rumors had spinned around about the actor and his marriage for years. Kidman was allegedly blindsided when he filed for divorce just embarrass of their 10-year wedding anniversary. Because Cruise technically filed nine years, 11 months into the marriage, many hypothesized that he was trying to avoid California’s 10-year even-handed split of assets law. In any event, the divorce was finalized in August 2001, and Kidman and Cruise ultimately divide everything 50-50.

Galatians 5:13  For you were called for freedom, brothers. But do not use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh; rather, serve one another through love.

14. Sean Penn and Madonna

Madonna holds the difference of making the list twice. Her marriage to Sean Penn was turbulent from the very beginning. They tied the knot in 1985. At their actual wedding, Penn shot up at helicopters that were trying to snap photos and videos of the celebrations. As their marriage untied, things took an especially shocking turn. Before their divorce was final in 1989, Penn climbed the walls of her home, tied her up and abused her for nine hours, which brought him to jail, and separation. The couple were separated for years following their breakup, but it has been reported recently that they were on reasonable good terms again.

1 Peter 3:1-11 Likewise, you wives should be subordinate to your husbands so that, even if some disobey the word, they may be won over without a word by their wives' conduct when they observe your reverent and chaste behavior. Your adornment should not be an external one: braiding the hair, wearing gold jewelry, or dressing in fine clothes, but rather the hidden character of the heart, expressed in the imperishable beauty of a gentle and calm disposition, which is precious in the sight of God. For this is also how the holy women who hoped in God once used to adorn themselves and were subordinate to their husbands; thus Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him "lord." You are her children when you do what is good and fear no intimidation. Likewise, you husbands should live with your wives in understanding, showing honor to the weaker female sex, since we are joint heirs of the gift of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.  Finally, all of you, be of one mind, sympathetic, loving toward one another, compassionate, humble.  Do not return evil for evil, or insult for insult; but, on the contrary, a blessing, because to this you were called, that you might inherit a blessing.  For: "Whoever would love life and see good days must keep the tongue from evil and the lips from speaking deceit, must turn from evil and do good, seek peace and follow after it.

15. Seal and Heidi Klum

From the outside looking in, the relationship of supermodel Heidi Klum and singer Seal seemed to be as fine as it gets. In fact, he couple even renewed their marital vows annually because they were supposedly so content together. While their divorce was being settled, Klum asserted that Seal had anger issues. On the other hand, Seal claimed that Klum had been dating with bodyguard Martin which the latter denied until she and Seal had separated.

Romans 7:1-7 Are you unaware, brothers (for I am speaking to people who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over one as long as one lives? Thus a married woman is bound by law to her living husband; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law in respect to her husband. Consequently, while her husband is alive she will be called an adulteress if she consorts with another man. But if her husband dies she is free from that law, and she is not an adulteress if she consorts with another man. In the same way, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.  For when we were in the flesh, our sinful passions, awakened by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are released from the law, dead to what held us captive, so that we may serve in the newness of the spirit and not under the obsolete letter.  What then can we say? That the law is sin? Of course not! Yet I did not know sin except through the law, and I did not know what it is to covet except that the law said, "You shall not covet."

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