Billy Crudup started dating Mary-Louise Parker in 1996 but left her in 2003 for Claire Danes. What made the split from Parker salacious, was that she was seven months pregnant with their child when Crudup decided to be with Danes — whom he met working on the film “Stage Beauty.” Years later, Danes opened up about the scandalous relationship. “I was just in love with him,” the “Romeo + Juliet” star said while appearing on “The Howard Stern Show” in 2015, via Entertainment Weekly. “And needed to explore that and I was 24 … I didn’t quite know what those consequences would be,” Danes added, referring to the backlash she received then.
In early 2004, Parker gave birth to her and Crudup’s son. Although they had an unceremonious breakup, she still named the child “William,” after his father. Over a decade later, the “Weeds” actor addressed her breakup with Crudup in her 2015 book “Dear Mr. You,” a compilation of various letters written for men throughout her life. In a letter titled, “Dear Mr. Cabdriver,” Parker recalled a contentious encounter with a cabbie not long after Crudup had left her. “I am alone. Look, see? I am pregnant and alone. It hurts to even breathe,” the “RED” actor wrote, via Jezebel. “I’m trying to get through it but I’m by myself every night and every morning and no one, nothing helps,” Parker added.
Unfortunately for Crudup, his relationship with Danes did not have a happy ending either.
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