In 2008, Madonna filed for divorce from Guy Richie, who she’d been married to since 2008. Around the same time, filming for “Sherlock,” which Ritchie directed, started up. Us Weekly, along with other gossip rags, posted the Kelly Reilly was romantically involved with Ritchie, and led to Madonna filing for divorce. The rumors turned out to be true and later that same year, US Weekly issued a retraction of the original report, via Gawker. However, the damage had already been done.
Reilly, while speaking with The Telegraph in 2009, denied the rumors. “I had done one day’s filming with [Guy Ritchie] and said, ‘Hello, how are you?’ shared Reilly. “We’d talked about a scene and before you knew it there were press on my parents’ doorstep going, ‘So, I hear that Kelly’s the reason for the divorce.'”
Two years later, in 2009 while promoting “Sherlock Holmes 2,” Reilly addressed the Guy Ritchie rumors again. All that was ridiculous nonsense,” said Reilly. “It was the first time anything like that had ever happened to me and I didn’t cope with it very well at all.” The actor went on to share that she “sued” and had to deal with people calling her and asking, “What’s this about you and?’ adding that ‘[The rumors] hurts people you love.'”
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