Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor Don't Take a Day 'for Granted' After Reconciling: 'You Know It Could Go Away'

Mar. 15, 2025

Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor.Photo:Gotham/GC Images

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Ben Stillerknows his marriage toChristine Tayloris special.

During an appearance onThe ViewThursday, Jan. 16, theSeverancedirector, 59, recalled how he and his wife, 53, separated in 2017 but were able to strengthen their bond when they rekindled their relationship several years later during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I don’t know how it happened other than we both wanted it,” Stiller said when asked how he and Taylor fell back in love when most couples who separate don’t.

Ben Stiller on The View — Jan. 16, 2025.ABC

ABC

He continued, noting that with any relationship, especially one as long as their 25-year marriage, “You have to work at it.”

“Now, every day that we’re together, we do not take for granted. At least, I know I don’t, because you know it could go away and that to me is the gift for our relationship is that we have that every day, and I really am so happy that we’re together.”

The couple, who have starred in several movies together throughout the years, tied the knot in 2000 andshare two kids, daughter Ella, 22, and son Quinlin, 19.

As the interview went on, theSeveranceexecutive producer recalled how “when COVID happened,” everything changed after his family “all got a house together.”

“I dunno. I’m just grateful,” Stiller said. “I don’t have any great relationship advice other than I’m so grateful that we’re back together, and I think now — I think sometimes people shouldn’t get back together — sometimes it’s not the right thing. For us it was the right thing.”

Christine Taylor and Ben Stiller, May 21, 2024 in New York City.Noam Galai/Getty

Noam Galai/Getty

“When we separated, it was just having space to see what our relationship was, what my life felt like when we weren’t in that relationship, how much I loved our family unit,” theTropic Thunderactor explained to the paper. “It was like three or four years that we weren’t together but we always were connected. In my mind, I never didn’t want us to be together.”

He added thatTheBrady Bunch Movieactress could have felt differently, but he would let her tell her own story.

Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor — October 26, 2023.Jamie McCarthy/Getty

Jamie McCarthy/Getty

“I don’t know where Christine was, you’d have to ask her, but COVID put us all together in the same house.”

Tayloropened up about their splitin March 2023, saying onThe Drew Barrymore Showthat “Family was always a priority.”

“But I think Ben and I both started to grow in different directions,” theCraftalum said. “And when we made the decision to separate, it was not something we wanted to talk publicly about or took lightly.”

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Taylor also said that when she and Stiller separated, they “were at this impasse of, ‘Let’s figure this out — what’s best at this chapter in our lives?’ "

“I think we have these growth spurts, even as adults. And we needed time to figure that out,” she said.

source: people.com