Meryl Streep and Don Gummer have been secretly separated for over 6 years: ‘They will always care for each other’

Islamabad OCTOBER 21 (Online): Meryl Streep and Don Gummer have called it quits after 45 years of marriage. The duo met in 1978 shortly after the death of her boyfriend, actor John Cazale.

Meryl Streep and her husband Don Gummer have been secretly separated for six years. In a report by Page Six, sources have confirmed that the Oscar-winning actor has called it quits 45 years after tying the knot with husband Don Gummer.

Meryl Streep with Don Gummer at the 2018 Academy Awards.

What the spokesperson said
As per the report, a spokesperson of the star confirmed the news and said, “Don Gummer and Meryl Streep have been separated for more than 6 years, and while they will always care for each other, they have chosen lives apart.” Both of them were last seen in 2018 when they attended the Academy Awards. Meryl was nominated that year in the Best Actress category for Steven Spielberg’s The Post.

Meryl was earlier linked to actor John Cazale, who had starred in films like The Godfather and The Deer Hunter. John died of lung cancer in March 1978, and it was during the time of her mourning his death, when she first met Don Gummer. They got married just six months later. They share four kids, which includes a son, Henry Wolfe, and three daughters, Mamie Gummer, Grace Gummer, and Louisa Jacobson.

Talking about her marriage to Vogue in a 2002 interview, she had said, “Goodwill and willingness to bend — and to shut up every once in a while. There’s no road map on how to raise a family: It’s always an enormous negotiation. But I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life.”

Over the years, Meryl and Don have attended countless red carpet events together. At the Academy Awards in 2012, when the actor won Best Actress for The Iron Lady, she said in her acceptance speech, “First, I’m going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music, and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives, you’ve given me.”

Meryl Streep was last seen in season three of Only Murders In The Building.