Warning: Discussion of pregnancy loss, drug use, and domestic abuse.
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Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush met on the set of One Tree Hill and began dating in 2003. They tied the knot two years later, only to split after five months of marriage, with Sophia requesting that the marriage be annulled due to “fraud.” Sophia later referred to herself as “21 and stupid” during their relationship.
Chad similarly said in a 2024 interview, “I was a baby. I didn’t know up, down, left, right. You move out there and you go, ‘Well, what am I supposed to do now? Get married? That’s exciting!'”
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Nicolas Cage filed for divorce from Lisa Marie Presley just four months after they were married in 2002. Lisa later said that they should have never been married and that Nick would frequently have a “temper tantrum,” telling Rolling Stone in 2003, “We’re both so dramatic and dynamic that when it was good it was unbelievably good, and when it was bad it was just a fucking bloody nightmare for everybody.”
“Oftentimes, when you have two people who are very strong and their own personalities and rather intense, sometimes you can have a hard time meshing,” Nick said in 2003. “It’s sad, and I miss her every day, and sometimes I wish we couldn’t have rushed the marriage, and sometimes I regret rushing the divorce, but it just seemed like it wasn’t going to change.” They later became friends.
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Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson were briefly married in 2006, shortly after they reconnected after a prior split. He later said, “Getting married is the most fun you can have in life. Being married sucks.” According to Kid Rock’s retelling, she was angry at him when he prioritized seeing a Lakers game over visiting her in Vancouver, eventually telling him, “I just had a miscarriage, and you don’t even give a fuck.”
He then claimed that she lied about the miscarriage, to which Pamela said, “I hope his album does well. I hope he’s happy in life. We were married for four months. If he has nothing nice to say about me, then please tell him to stop talking about me.” She claimed they didn’t speak after their split, but added in 2018, “When he was with me, he didn’t hunt. I don’t think he was very Republican, but now he is. Oh well.”
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Jennifer Esposito filed for divorce from Bradley Cooper in 2007, a few months after they were married. He told Howard Stern in 2011 that they both realized the relationship “just wasn’t right.”
She then wrote of an unnamed relationship gone wrong in her memoir about celiac disease: “He was funny, smart, cocky, arrogant, and a master manipulator. I didn’t necessarily find him that attractive, but I figured that I could enjoy his sense of humor and nonsense for a while…Within days, my relationship hit an all-time low, and within a week, it was over.” When the press speculated it was about Bradley, she issued a statement calling the coverage “an insult to me and this disease that plagues so many.”
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In 1999, a then-19-year-old Drew Barrymore married 31-year-old bar owner Jeremy Thomas. They split after 19 days. She referred to him as “the devil” in an interview after their divorce was finalized. “I just want to be free,” she further said. “That’s the whole point I’ve been trying to make since I was a child, and I’m still making it.” Last year, she said of being married three times, “Divorce now, to me, I don’t have shame around it. I’m like totally liberated.”
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Elisabeth Moss and Fred Armisen split eight months after getting married in 2010. Elisabeth later said of their marriage, “It was extremely traumatic and awful and horrible.”
Fred described getting married to Elisabeth as part of a wider pattern he had with dating: “It’s so exciting, and this is gonna sound so shallow, but I get lost in fantasy a lot…the fantasy of this person from Mad Men, you know, great actress…I have a problem with intimacy, where all of a sudden, there’s a real person there…It’s not the girl on Mad Men.”
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Renée Zellweger filed for an annulment four months after marrying country singer Kenny Chesney in 2005, citing fraud. For some reason, the tabloids speculated that “fraud” was a comment on Kenny’s sexuality, which they both denied.
Kenny attributed the demise of the marriage to his being “panicked” over the sudden press attention, saying in 2015, “I did the only thing I knew to do: I ran. I pushed her away, in every way possible—to the point where I just didn’t want to be married to her anymore. It’s that simple. I still struggle with it. Was it the right thing to do or not? I still think about her every day. Every day I wonder if she’s okay. I mean, you don’t just fall out of love with somebody.”
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In 2014, actor Sonni Pacheco filed for divorce from Jeremy Renner after a 10-month marriage. In a custody battle over their daughter — the details of which didn’t emerge until 2019 — Sonni requested sole custody and called him an “unfit parent.” She accused him of threatening to kill her and himself, and biting their daughter’s shoulder. He has denied the allegations, calling them “dramatisations” made with a “specific goal in mind.”
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Teen Wolf actor Colton Haynes filed for divorce from Jeff Leatham in 2018, six months after their wedding (which was officiated by Kris Jenner). “I got married and that didn’t work out. That was extremely public and heart-breaking, and right when that was going on, my mom died. That was only a year ago,” Colton later said.
“At that point, I fell apart. My brain broke. I was doing this massive comedy for a studio, showed up to work and got fired on the first day,” he continued. “I think it was the best decision in the world to fire me. I got so heavily involved with drugs and alcohol to mask the pain I was feeling that I couldn’t even make some decisions for myself. I was drowning in my own shit.”
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White Lotus alum Lukas Gage and celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton called it quits after seven months of marriage. Kim Kardashian officiated the ceremony and Shania Twain performed — Lukas wound up apologizing to the latter, saying in 2024, “That was unhinged. That was like, the biggest waste of her time.”
Chris said of their 2024 divorce, “Moving fast doesn’t always mean you’re reckless. I think sometimes it means you’re hopeful…Any relationship I’ve ever been into, I’ve gone into with an open heart. And I have no regrets about that.”
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Finally, undoubtedly one of the most famous examples: In 2011, Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries were married for 72 days before she filed for divorce. In interviews, she said that she was “nervous” to end things, but regretted the wedding as soon as they were on their honeymoon.
She said the following year, “Everything is great at the beginning…And for me, I didn’t spend more than I think a full week with my ex before we got married. We never lived together,” she said, adding that once they did live together, she knew “he was not the one.” For his part, he called the relationship “100% real” but said the “embarrassment” of the public split was “brutal.”
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