As MSN notes, esteemed actor Mary-Louise Parker had a high-profile relationship with fellow performer Billy Crudup, who has since found love with Naomi Watts, but the two never got hitched.
Although it shouldn’t really be a talking point nowadays, particularly for a highly successful woman like Parker, her nonmarried status continues to confound some people. In an interview with The New York Times, she acknowledged that it might never happen — and that’s totally fine. With a fulfilling career, children, and pets, Parker doesn’t feel like she’s missing out on anything.
Moreover, the actor was ruined early on, in a way, because her parents’ marriage was perfect. “Maybe a psychiatrist would say I’m not married now because I have some sort of father thing,” she said. “But you know what? That would be the least of my problems.”
Parker was so enamored of her late father, John Parker, that she wrote a book in tribute to him, “Dear Mr. You.” “He was a mythic character and so informative to who I am in every way,” she gushed to Elle.
The actor reiterated again that, although she approaches romantic relationships with enthusiasm, nothing compares to her parents. As a result, Parker doesn’t think the typical nuclear family unit is for her. “A man doesn’t love a woman the way my father loved my mother; a woman isn’t devoted to a man the way my mother was to my father,” she said. “It just doesn’t happen.”
