Relationships end. That's just a hard reality of love. However, when you see a couple that's been together as long as Jeremy Allen White and Addison Timlin have, it's utterly heartbreaking. While most of Allen White's fans have openly thristed over him for years, there's no doubt that they found his relationship with the Californication star touching.
Despite the fact that they've known each other since they were teenagers and have had two children together, the end of their relationship was announced on May 12th, 2023. According to People, Timlin was the one to file for divorce. However, rumors of her cheating on him with a film director silently circulated months before. Here's what we know about whether or not a cheating scandal was the reason for their breakup and if the rumors are even remotely accurate...
Why Did Jeremy Allen White And Addison Timlin Break Up?
At the time of this writing, we simply don't know enough about what really went on between The Bear star and the mother of his two children. Jeremy Allen White married Addison Timlin back in 2019 after a truly epic romance that the Shameless star claimed was the "craziest thing" he's ever done for love.
Allen White and Timlin first met when they were 14 at a performing arts school in New York. And, according to a comment from Timlin on Instagram, she was enamored with him right from the start.
Following Allen White's January 2023 Golden Globe win for his transformative work in Hulu's The Bear, she took to Instagram to write, "When we were 14 years old and I saw you perform for the first time in drama class, I couldn't take my eyes off of you."
But despite Addison Timlin's respect for Allen White, the two were just friends when they were young. And, according to Popsugar, they actually had a bit of a falling out in the years following. However, things changed in 2008, when they were both cast in the Indie film, Afterschool.
During his interview with InStyle, Jeremy Allen White explained that he and Addison Timlin had a few "false starts" in their relationship, alluding to a romance during their teen years.
"We had a couple of false starts throughout our, sort of like, adolescence and early twenties," Jeremy Allen White said to InStyle.
"And we both had other, kind of, you know, like serious relationships during the time that we weren't together. But, I think, you know, I was always really after Addison. And, um, that long game was pretty crazy."
That "long game" resulted in a marriage that lasted around 4 years and produced two beautiful children, Ezer and Dolores. This made the news of their divorce even more shocking to fans, who have been delighted in watching their absurdly romantic relationship on Instagram.
However, according to a report from DeuxMoi, there's been trouble in paradise for some time now. And this was backed up by Addison Timlin's 2023 Mother's Day Instagram post that stated that she's been a "single mother" for around "9 months". This means she and Allen White have been broken up long before he publicly stated his love for her in his Golden Globes acceptance speech.
Did Addison Timlin Cheat On Jeremy Allen White?
Jeremy Allen White and Addison Timlin have faced their share of scandals throughout their relationship. This includes a set of leaked images and videos from their personal life as well as facing a cheating scandal at the start of their relationship.
In the early days of Shameless, Allen White was dating his on-screen love interest played by Emma Greenwell (Mandy). But their relationship ended in 2014, around the time he faced rumors of infidelity, according to CheatSheet. It was rumored that Allen White struck up a relationship with his old on-and-off again flame, Addison Timlin.
This was seemingly backed up by Addison Timlin's interview with Harper's Bazaar around the same time in which she said, "I’ve got a sweetheart who I will not disclose, but, yes, he’d be the guy. We have a nice foundation from being friends for a long period of time, and then it took a hard right turn into romance."
But these cheating rumors have not been confirmed or proven accurate. Not unlike the ones at the forefront of the announcement of their divorce...
Not long after Jeremy Allen White won the Golden Globe for The Bear, DeuxMoi posted an anonymous report via email that fans on Reddit deemed damning evidence of Addison Timlin being a cheater. In the email, the person alleged that an unnamed wife of a recent Golden Globe winner was sleeping with someone else.
After the subject line "Golden Globes Hubby", the inside source wrote, "anon please, but I've been sitting on some wild tea for a few weeks and am inspired to share after seeing a certain TV actor still wearing his wedding ring on tonight's award show. Said actor's wife is currently cheating on him with an actor/writer/director whom she met through the female co-star of his latest film. Not sure when it's coming to light, but I've heard both parties in the affair are planning to go public soon."
Now, this is no concrete proof that Addison Timlin had an affair nor that she and Jeremy Allen White are even the subjects of this email. However, fans on Reddit appear to have been convinced since January 2023. After all, Allen White made a touching show of affection to Timlin in his Golden Globe's acceptance speech, stating, "Addison Timlin, I love you deep in my bones, thank you for all that you do, thank you for everything that you've done."
This show of affection could certainly have been what inspired the inside source to speak out. At least, this is what some Redditt users are saying.
Again, there's no proof at the time of this writing.
Nor is there any proof of who Timlin allegedly cheated with. And yet, fans appear to have that sorted out too. According to numerous threads, said "actor/writer/director" is Cooper Raiff. He is best known for his 2022 film, Cha Cha Real Smooth, which he wrote, directed, and starred in alongside Timlin's best friend, Dakota Johnson. Redditors believe that Johnson is responsible for connecting Timlin and Raiff.
But there's zero proof of that as well.
An apparent conflicting DuexMoi tip suggested that Allen White was the one who cheated with a PA on his show ahead of the second season. But this is unconfirmed as well.
What we do know for sure is that two extraordinarily talented individuals have gone through a challenging emotional journey that resulted in the end of their marriage. Fans are just going to have to wait for Jeremy Allen White and Addison Timlin themselves to shed light on what really occurred... should they ever choose to do so. Regardless, we wish them well.
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