Dennis Quaid looks back on his previous marriage to Meg Ryan and shares the best parts of their relationship.
THE Reagan the actor was recently interviewed on Who is talking to Chris Wallace?where host Chris Wallace asked them if being in the spotlight — and being labeled one of Hollywood’s “golden couples” — had an impact on their relationship. The couple was married from 1991 to 2001.
“When I met Meg, I was here career-wise, and she was here,” Quaid recalled, holding a hand representing himself over the hand representing Ryan. “And then it just [switched] like this,” he added, reversing the position of his hands.
“I try to be a big person and tell myself it didn't bother me, but people are human,” Quaid said of his ex-wife's rising popularity at the time. “She was going up a level while I was going to rehab.”
Yet, more than two decades after the two split, Quaid still has nothing but positive things to say about Ryan.
“Meg is a really wonderful person, sweet and very talented, and she deserved all her success,” Parents in the Trap said the former student. “I don't regret anything about my marriage to Meg. We got Jack Quaid out of it, who is actually going to eclipse both of us, I think.”
Their son, Jack, went on to star in dozens of his projects, including The boys, Ithaca AND Plus onein addition to giving voice to the characters in Star Trek: Lower Decks AND My Adventures with Superman. He will also be the protagonist of the next film, Company.
Quaid has been married to Laura Savoie since 2020. He was previously married to Kimberly Buffington from 2004 to 2018. Ryan has not remarried but was briefly engaged to John Mellencamp from 2018 to 2019.