Just imagine: you are having your regular day working in a restaurant and all of a sudden
your favorite actor comes in and orders a coffee. This resembles a plot of some 90s
romcom rather than a real life. Right? What if we tell you these fairytale-like stories
happened with some of your favourite actors?
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their fans!
Patrick Dempsey Younger audiences probably know him as Derek
Shepherd from Grey's Anatomy, but let's not forget that Patrick Dempsey got quite successful
already in the 80s starring in numerous films and TV productions.
This story happened in the mid 1990s. Jillian Fink was working in a Los Angeles salon and
when she saw Dempsey's name in her appointment book, she thought it was a prank.
She recalls: "I was shocked [when he came in for an appointment]
but at the same time, I was happy because he was so cute"
Both were in other relationships at the time, but after three years of haircuts, he caught
wind that she was single and finally asked her out. From that point things moved rather
quickly: three months after their first date they moved in together and soon got married.
Their relationships have had their ups and downs: Fink filed for divorce in 2015, but
the couple reconciled for the sake of their love and their three children. After that
incident Dempsey and Fink agreed that their marriage had a (quote) "new beginning".
The actor said: "Our union has to be the priority. I wasn’t
prepared to give up on her and she wasn’t either. We both wanted to fight for it."
Tom Cruise According to her own confessions, Katie Holmes
had had a crush on Tom since she was 15. The young actress used to tell her Dawson's Creek
castmates about her obsession with the Hollywood A-lister. Holmes literally knew everything
about the Top Gun star. In 2004 she even told Seventeen magazine that she used to think
she was going to marry Cruise. It was just a short time later that Holmes got her wish
and started dating her teenage crush. The two got engaged in 2005 and welcomed their
daughter Suri a year later.
We doubt, however, that her dream involved divorce and custody battles, but this is what
happened to Katie in real life. Cruise didn't expect his fairytale to end like this, either.
He confessed in an interview some time later that he had no clue Holmes was planning to
file for divorce.
"To be 50 and to have experiences and to think you have a grip on everything ... and then
it hits you: This is it, what life can do to you."
Matt Damon Matt Damon and Argentinian-born Luciana Barroso
aren’t your typical Hollywood couple. For Matt, who thought that he would never come
across his soulmate, it was a series of lucky events that led to his meeting with Barroso.
It was the year 2003, Damon was in Miami shooting Stuck On You. He ended up at a bar where his
future wife was the bartender and he instantly spotted her across the crowded room. But their
first encounter wasn't smooth. Even though they instantly connected, guess what happened:
everyone else recognized Damon and started asking for pictures and autographs. Luciana
recalls:
"..and then it got kind of aggressive because people are drinking and stuff, and so he came
and hid behind my bar"
Having a super busy day, Luciana challenged Matt to help her out. Damon, who had trained
as a bartender for a film years before, started making drinks. Of course everyone else wanted
to see the Hollywood star mix drinks and it all eventually turned into a fun night.
Matt and Luciana married in 2005 and have been having fun since then, together with
their 4 kids!
Kevin Bacon
They remain one of the most enduring couples in Hollywood. They are both recognized and
respected actors, but be sure we will surprise you with how it all started.
Kyra Sedgwick first met Kevin Bacon when she was only 12. She had just seen the actor perform
in the matinee of a play he was doing and she immediately liked him.
As Bacon explained: "A little girl was in there who had just seen the matinee, and her
brother said, 'You liked that actor, go tell him you liked him,' and it was Kyra."
Kevin was 8 years older and thankfully they didn't start dating until they met again on
the set of Lemon Sky in 1988. The two have been inseparable since then.
Lisa Bonet
It was long before the Game of Thrones and Aquaman and even before his teenage years
when Jason Momoa decided that actress Lisa Bonet was the perfect woman for him.
He saw her on the Cosby Show and instantly fell in love, aged just 8. Lisa was 11 years
older than him and… well…. who takes childhood crushes seriously after all…
But the actual meeting DID happen, just waaaaay later. It happened at a jazz club. Even years
after seeing his crush on TV, Momoa in his late 20s felt the same way about her.
He recalls: "I literally turned around and I see her and
she goes, ya know, 'I'm Lisa. I turned around to my friend and I was like 'ahhh!' I had
fireworks going off inside man."
Lisa drove him home, they made a stop at a coffee shop. And that was it! Now not only
for Jason, but for Lisa, as well. Any need to mention they lived happily ever after?
Nicolas Cage By the time the Leaving Las Vegas star met
Alice Kim, he had already been married and divorced twice.
Kim was just 19 and she worked as a cocktail waitress at a Korean-themed restaurant in
Los Angeles. Imagine the situation: you are at work and one of your favourite actors comes
in for a bite. This is exactly what happened to Kim one of those days in 2004.
Despite their 20-year age gap, the waitress and the Oscar-winning actor clicked immediately
and soon started dating and got married. The two spent 11 happy years together before separating
in 2016, and became parents to a wonderful boy.
However, for Cage, who was 54, their split came as a shock. He confessed in his interview
with The Guardian: ''I definitely didn't see it coming, and those feelings had to go somewhere,
so they went into the performance.''
It was the third marriage for the Hollywood A-lister who said that he didn't even count
the previous two. His bond with the girl who used to be his fan was the only meaningful
connection for Cage. He married again in 2019, only to file for annulment four days later.
John Travolta As John Travolta and his family mourn the
recent passing of his incredible wife Kelly Preston who lost the battle with breast cancer,
we want to pay tribute to Kelly by recalling their first meeting.
Kelly was a fan of the actor's work long before they met. When Travolta saw Preston for the
first time, at a screen test for The Experts, she was married to fellow actor Kevin Gage.
However, according to Travolta, when she entered the room, it was an immediate chemistry. Preston's
rocky marriage engendered a closeness with Travolta that would serve as the foundation
of their romantic relationship that started some years later.
The two married in 1991 and had been through a lot of ups and downs together. The most
horrifying period in their lives was when the couple lost their 16-year-old son Jett
Travolta. The teenager who at an early age was diagnosed with a poorly understood syndrome,
had a seizure and hit his head on the bath. All the attempts to revive him were unsuccessful.
The actor described the death of his son as (quote) "the worst thing that's ever happened
in my life". And now John has to deal with another loss.
Paying tribute to Preston, who passed away at the age of 57, Travolta thanked the doctors
and everyone who was there to support Kelly while she was fighting the courageous battle
with cancer.
Christian Bale This Hollywood heartthrob had given up on
marriage after growing up in a family full of failed marriages. He even went on record
to say he never planned to get married at all. But that had been before he met Sibi,
the personal assistant who was working with Wynona Rider in 2000. He was 26, she was 30.
Just like that, all of a sudden, the idea of long-term commitment started making sense
to Bale.
That was 20 years ago. Christian is a happy father of two and is still madly in love with
his wife. Bale who rarely speaks about his family issues says that Sibi "terrifies" him
in a good way.
“She’s probably the most strong woman I’ve ever come across in my life.”
That's all for today! Did you know any of these amazing stories of celebrities who married
their fans?