In a summer filled with news of celebrity engagements and relationships, the latest is perhaps one of the most low-key and moving announcements. Actress Michelle Williams told Vanity Fair that she married the singer-songwriter Phil Elverum—who makes music as Mount Eerie—in “a secret ceremony in the Adirondacks, witnessed by only a handful of friends and their two daughters.” Per the profile:
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The one subject Williams won’t initially discuss is her private life. She’s got a relatively new someone—or new to the media, anyway—and I can tell she’s itching to mention him, the way people in love are. “I would tell you everything, in the spirit of women sharing with each other,” she says, but “the Internet’s an asshole.” A couple of weeks later, she changes her mind and decides to talk in the hope that doing so might “take some heat and confusion” out of the situation when it finally becomes public.
The actress, who recently featured in Amy Schumer’s I Feel Pretty, said Elverum “loves me is the way I want to live my life on the whole.” “I work to be free inside of the moment. I parent to let Matilda feel free to be herself, and I am finally loved by someone who makes me feel free.” Elverum’s most recent releases Now Only and A Crow Looked at Me grapple with the 2016 death of his late wife, illustrator and musician Geneviève Castrée, from pancreatic cancer. According to the interview, Elverum and his daughter, who was born in 2015, began living with Williams and her daughter in Brooklyn this month.
Williams also spoke movingly of her late former partner, Heath Ledger, saying, “I never gave up on love…. I always say to Matilda, ‘Your dad loved me before anybody thought I was talented, or pretty, or had nice clothes.’”
Read the full interview, in which she also discusses equal pay in Hollywood and her forthcoming new show Venom, here.
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