SAT . Billy Crudup makes rare comment about ex Mary-Louise Parker 22 years after he left her for Claire Danes
Billy Crudup gave a rare glimpse inside his parenting relationship with ex Mary-Louise Parker, 22 years after he left her for Claire Danes.
“Well, without commenting on any of our…,” Crudup told the Times in an interview published Thursday.
The “Weeds” star — whom Crudup had been dating for seven years — was seven months pregnant when he began a relationship with his “Stage Beauty” co-star.
Crudup and Parker’s son, 21-year-old William Atticus Parker, has followed in his parents’ footsteps and is now a writer, director and actor.
“He has, through the mash-up of the two of us, been endowed with superpowers for theatricality,” Crudup told the outlet.
“He’s such a badass,” he added. “Mary-Louise and I appeared in most of his films.”
A rep for Parker did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
Crudup, now 57, and Parker, 61, met as co-stars in the Broadway production of “Bus Stop” in 1996.
The “Morning Show” actor met Danes — who was then dating Ben Lee — in 2003, and after both left their respective partners, they went public in 2004.
Danes and Crudup went their separate ways in 2007, but the widely publicized romance left an impression on all involved.
Danes later told Howard Stern that she “didn’t quite know what those consequences would be” when she fell in love with Crudup.
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“You have to live with the mistakes that you make,” Crudup told the Times back in 2017.
Parker, meanwhile, detailed her heartbreak in “Dear Mr. You,” her 2015 memoir.
“I am pregnant and alone. It hurts to even breathe,” she wrote in part via a note to a cab driver who was transporting her to a doctor appointment.
In 2007, Parker went on to adopt daughter Ash, 18, from Ethiopia, and she was briefly engaged to “Weeds” co-star Jeffrey Dean Morgan in 2008.
Danes, now 46, married Hugh Dancy in 2009, and the couple has since welcomed three children.
Crudup tied the knot with Oscar winner Naomi Watts in 2023 — and despite their complicated past, Parker had only supportive words for Crudup and Watts.
“I wish them well,” Parker told the Guardian.
“And absolutely, I honestly of course wish them every happiness because that’s my son’s father. So I’m happy for them. I’m happy they found each other.”
