When these stars met, they were already in a relationship.

Sometimes love simply knocks you off your feet and makes you forget about everything, including the fact that you are not free in reality. And such stories are not uncommon. In fact, a considerable number of star couples met while they were still married or in a relationship. Some of them even had no idea that they would ever be together or that they would disperse. How did they deal with the situation, and what came of it?

Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani

They met in 2014 on NBC on The Voice. At that time, Shelton was married to Miranda Lambert, and Stephanie was married to musician Gavin Rossdale, but in 2015 the stars filed for divorce almost simultaneously and confirmed their relationship by the end of the year, although they emphasized that it was the divorce proceedings that brought them closer together, since they were going through the same experience and on this basis agreed.

Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union

They met in 2007 while hosting a Super Bowl party. The basketball player was married to Siobhan Fanches, and the actress recently divorced Chris Howard. Wade filed for divorce that same year, but did not appear in public with Union until July 2009. In 2010, Fanches sued Gabrielle for “emotional stress” and the mistreatment of her three sons by Wade. Wade himself claimed that this was the revenge of the former for his claim for sole custody of their children.

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck

Fate brought them together in the summer of 2000 on the set of Pearl Harbor, but Garner was then the wife of Scott Foley. Affleck admitted that feelings only flared up two years later, when they starred together in “Daredevil”. Garner is still married to Fowley and Affleck is in a relationship with Jennifer Lopez. In the spring of 2003, the actress broke up with her husband, but their first appearance with Ben as a couple happened only in October 2004. They had a good family and three children, but it all ended in divorce in 2017.

Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott

Dean and Tory hooked up in 2005 on the TV series Reason Makes More Important Than Killing. At that time, Tori is Charlie Shanian’s wife, and Dean is married to actress and singer Mary Joe Eustace, nevertheless, Tori did not hesitate to say that she and Dean slept on the first evening of their acquaintance, but not out of banal lust, but because they fell in love … Both immediately divorced and started their own family, where as many as five children appeared. By the way, in 2014, Tory herself had to deal with Dean’s infidelity, but they still kept the marriage.

Julia Roberts and Daniel Moder

The star actress and cinematographer got together during the filming of The Mexican in 2000, when Moder was still married to Vera Steimberg and Roberts was dating Benjamin Bratt. However, six months later, Moder moved to Julia, and in the summer of 2002 they got married.

“He figured it out on his own without my intervention,” the actress said to Oprah Winfrey in 2003. “And I figured out my life myself. This is the only reason why we were able to love each other and stay together. “

John Travolta and Kelly Preston

This happened in 1987 at a screen test for the film The Experts. Travolta always said that his meeting with Kelly was love at first sight, but for the actress who was married to Kevin Gage, things turned out to be a little more complicated. And Travolta was not the first partner she went to after the divorce. First, Kelly moved in with George Clooney, then met with Charlie Sheen (they were even engaged). Travolta waited a long time, and when he got a chance, he immediately proposed to Kelly on the eve of New 1991.

Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly

The rapper and the actress met in March 2020 on the set of the indie film Midnight in the Grain Field, after which Meghan stated that she instantly felt the chemistry between them, despite her long marriage to Brian Austin Green. By the summer, Fox and Green had parted ways, and in the fall the actress introduced the rapper (in the world his name is Colson Baker) with her three sons from her ex-husband.

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively

In 2010, they played lovers in Green Lantern and, apparently, played too much. Ryan was the husband of Scarlett Johansson at the time, while Blake was dating Penn Badgley, a co-star on Gossip Girl. The Reynolds family soon fell apart, as did Blake’s relationship with Penn.

“We were single for a year after filming together,” Ryan recalled. – And we went on a double date with friends. Blake with another guy, me with another girl. It was awkward and weird as sparks were flying between Blake and me. In our case, the best way to start a relationship is to start with friendship. “

Billy Crudup and Claire Danes

When Crudup and Danes met on the set of English Beauty. He had an eight-year relationship with Mary-Louise Parker, but left her for Claire Danes in late 2003, when Parker was seven months pregnant. In 2004, Danes and Crudup officially became a couple, although they broke up two years later.

In 2013, the actress admitted that she did not realize the scale of what she and Krudap, who was 11 years older, had done:

“This is the stage of my growing up. I just fell in love with him, and I was only 24 years old. I didn’t quite understand the consequences. “

Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan

The two developed a passion for each other during the filming of the thriller Proof of Life in 2000, when Ryan was still married to Dennis Quaid. Their relationship with Crowe and Ryan’s subsequent divorce immediately became the property of the entire tabloid press, and the public strongly condemned Meg. The romance quickly ended, but Russell Crowe, in a gentlemanly way, said that public opinion was very unfair to the actress.