The dissolution of Hugh Jackman’s 27 years of marriage to Deborra-Lee Furness was shocking for a lot of fans.
Earlier this month, some bombshell revelations about the marriage and its demise were made.
Now, his ex-wife is speaking up about her pain. Keep reading to know more.
Hugh Jackman married his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, in 1996. The couple announced their separation in 2023, and Furness filed for divorce just this month. However, Jackman has been publicly seen with his new girlfriend, Sutton Foster.
But fans are piecing together their relationship timeline, and it seems like they might have been together for a while.
Images of the couple in 2008 have resurfaced at a showing for Shrek the Musical in New York city. At the time the images were taken, both were married to their significant others. While Jackman was still happily married to Lee-Furness, Foster was married to Christian Borle.
At the 68th Annual Tony Awards in 2014, the couple had been spotted again. The couple performed a waltz, with a lot of chemistry between them, to the point that, in hindsight, seems suspicious to some.
“They were leaning into each other, completely lost in their own moment. It didn’t look like just a performance,” one person said.
Though they were first spotted and romantically linked to one another in late 2024, their friendship has been around for a while due to them running in the same circles for theater and musicals. And in 2022, they did their rendition of The Music Man.
“They were both with other people at the time, but it was clear there was a deep connection,” an insider said to Life & Style.
While their connection blossomed, it seemed like their marriages might have suffered as a result. Now Lee-Furness has come out and plainly stated that the reason for her marriage ending had to do with ‘betrayal.’
Sources have described what Lee-Furness has gone through as an “emotionally devastating period.”
The 69-year-old Australian actress and producer based her decision to divorce Jackman also on the fact that she believed him to be having an ’emotional affair’ with Foster long before the couple decided to end their marriage.
“She felt betrayed. She gave nearly three decades of her life to that relationship,” a source said in an interview about the issue.
“My heart and compassion goes out to everyone who has traversed the traumatic journey of betrayal. It’s a profound wound that cuts deep,” she said in a public statement she released earlier in the week.
“Even when we are presented with apparent adversity, it is leading us to our greatest good, our true purpose,” it further read.
Jackman has not responded to this statement but has been sharing snippets from his life.
In a video he posted to his social media, the 56-year-old actor showed off an intense jump rope routine set to NSYNC’s Bye Bye Bye, with a caption that read “finally.”
While the song could have been referencing Deadpool and Wolverine, in which they are heavily featured. The timing of the post and the caption, makes it seems that it might have been a sly dig at his ex-wife.
There have also been some rumblings that Foster is currently relocating to Jackman’s luxury New York penthouse, which he set up with his ex-wife, as she slowly brings her belongings to the space.
A source has said the couple are living together, and are ‘inserperable,’
However, it seems that some fans are not too thrilled with the timeline of the entire thing. A lot of people are now convinced that Jackman cheated on his wife. “She is so beautiful and 30 years should have meant something. So sorry she had to go through that pain,” one fan lamented in a comment.
“Damn, I’m disappointed to hear he did that to her,” another wrote. “If you lack marital integrity, you lack personal integrity,” another added.
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