One famous woman said, "I went from being the funny girlfriend who was up for anything and had endless energy to the wife who is too sick to be by his side."

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Jesy also continued speaking out about SMA and campaigning for all babies to be checked for SMA after birth. Her petition reached 100,000 in a little over a day, triggering a debate in the UK's House of Commons.

Previously, in a January TikTok post, she shared, "Yesterday I met with Health Secretary Wes Streeting to discuss my campaign for all babies in the UK to be tested for Spinal Muscular Atrophy at birth, a cause that has become deeply personal after my girls were diagnosed with this life-changing condition. My hope is that no family has to wait for answers, and that every child can access treatment as early as possible. Thank you to everyone who has supported us so far and to all the families that have been fighting for this for years, your voices are helping us push for real change."

On Twitter in a since-deleted post, Ariana called her relationship with Mac "toxic," adding, "I have cared for him and tried to support his sobriety for years (and always will, of course). But shaming / blaming women for a man's inability to keep his shit together is a very major problem. Let's please stop doing that. Of course I didn't share about how hard or scary it was while it was happening but it was. I will pray from the bottom of my heart that he figures it all out and that any other woman in this position does as well."

On Instagram, Ariana shared a tribute to Mac, writing, "I adored you from the day I met you when I was 19, and I always will. I can't believe you aren't here anymore. You were my dearest friend. For so long. Above anything else. I'm so sorry i couldn't fix or take your pain away. I really wanted to."

She also told Vogue, "[The grief is] pretty all-consuming. By no means was what we had perfect, but, like, fuck. He was the best person ever, and he didn't deserve the demons he had. I was the glue for such a long time, and I found myself becoming... less and less sticky. The pieces just started to float away."

They kept their relationship under wraps as much as possible. Sammy's good friend, Arthur Silber, helped out by driving them to a Malibu beach house, sometimes with Sammy hiding under a blanket on the floor.

Sammy also installed a private phone line at the hotel where he performed so he could call Kim without anyone listening in. When she went home to Chicago for the holidays, he flew out to meet her family. Unfortunately, word reached the gossip columnists.

Meanwhile, Columbia purportedly demanded that Kim stop seeing Sammy, and they stationed guards at her home. She told Larry King, "And I thought, this is ridiculous, I don't want to live like this. I couldn't see what was wrong, do you know? What was so terrible?"

Sammy was friends with Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana, who offered him protection in Chicago or Las Vegas. However, he had no sway in LA, so Sammy offered Loray White, a Black dancer he'd been on a few dates with previously, between $10,000 to $25,000 to marry him. 

After the wedding, Sammy drank a lot and became extremely distraught. Arthur stopped him from attempting to die by suicide and sat with him until he fell asleep.

Sammy and Loray's marriage only lasted about a year. 

He went on to marry May Britt, a white actor from Sweden, and the couple faced racially charged backlash, hate mail, and threats of violence during their eight-year marriage. They lived in fear of being attacked if they were seen in public together, and JFK allegedly uninvited the couple from his inauguration gala to placate the Southern congresspeople. 

Sammy and May divorced in 1968 after he admitted to having an affair.

"It seemed like there was disappointment in the community with him because he was married to a little white Jewish girl from some show that we don't even remember... It was less about being successful and more about that kind of stuff," she said.

Keanu later reportedly told Parade, "Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.' They're wrong. When the people you love are gone, you're alone. I miss being a part of their lives and them being part of mine. I wonder what the present would be like if they were here — what we might have done together. I miss all the great things that will never be.

... All you can do is hope that grief will be transformed and, instead of feeling pain and confusion, you will be together again in memory, that there will be solace and pleasure there, not just loss. Much of my appreciation of life has come through loss. Life is precious. It's worthwhile."

Pier and Vic divorced in 1958, and he got custody of their son. She married composer/conductor Armando Trovajoli in 1962 and had another son the following year, but after their divorce in 1969, Armando also got custody of their son.

Pier endured financial difficulties and mental health struggles. Two years after her second divorce, she died by accidental overdose. 

Two months before her death at only 39, she sent a letter to a friend, writing, "I don't think any man can save me now. I think it may be too late. I think I was meant to live and die alone. Love is far away, somewhere deep inside of me. My love died at the wheel of a Porsche."

"It was the first time where I was like, 'Well, no one's really taking my picture. I'm just basically hanging out with my kid all day. Who cares?' I think when you stop caring about your personal appearance, your personal hygiene, it makes you even more depressed, but it makes you do it more. It's like a vicious cycle," he said.

He continued, "I would be an idiot to think that I didn't contribute to the unraveling of it. Of course, at first [I felt betrayed when Ashlee filed for divorce]. I'm like, 'This sucks! You bailed on me!' That kind of stuff. But you get perspective. We have a kid together. Our kid is awesome. He's great."

Ultimately, Pete and Ashlee settled their divorce without lawyers. He said, "Divorce attorneys make a lot of money. They send a lot of e-mails, they fax things, get on a phone, have a meeting. People who are going to get divorced: Work it out between you two, and don't get lawyers involved. ... We were like, 'This is insane!' They pit you against each other, and they're digging up every little piece of dirt."

She continued, "He lost his wingman, his partner in crime, and I [feel] as if he's starting to get impatient with my recovery. I understand that even brief periods of illness can strain important relationships in your life. A chronic condition like mine, one that has consumed years of our lives, poses enormous challenges.

... I had a great seven year run with him and I will always hold that in high regards and have gratitude for that time together. If he didn't leave the marriage, I would not be where I am today."

She said, "He got down on his knee and said, 'I've been in love with you for a long time. I don't want to live my life without you.' I just melted."

After their split, Paula struggled with disordered eating, but she sought help and checked herself into a clinic. Her parents supported her emotionally through her recovery. 

She continued to dream of having children. In 2007, she told USA Today, "Definitely within the next two years. I thought by now I'd have three grown children. With modern medicine, people are having kids in their 40s and even up until their late 40s. In their 50s, they're having their second child. If it doesn't happen naturally like that, I would always consider adopting."

As of 2026, Paula doesn't have any children.

Discussing his participation in Jennifer's 2024 documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told, Ben told GQ, "Part of it was, 'OK, if I'm going to participate in this, I want to try to do it in an honest way and in a way that's interesting.' Because I thought it was an interesting examination. Like I mentioned to you before, there are a lot of people who I think have handled celebrity more adeptly and more adroitly than I have, Jennifer among them. 

My temperament is to be a little bit more reserved and private than hers. As happens in relationships, you don't always have the same attitude towards these things. And so I thought, Oh, this is interesting because how do you reconcile that? Because exactly what [the interviewer] said is true. I love and support this person. I believe in them. They're great. I want people to see that. 

And I think the thing that I said in that documentary or the piece that they used was where I said, You don't marry a ship's captain and then say, 'Well, I don't like going out in the water.' You've got to own what you knew going into any relationship. And I think it's important to say that wasn’t the cause of some major fracture. It's not like you can watch that documentary and go, 'Oh, now I understand the issues that these two had.'"

There was also the fact that she was still processing the end of her marriage. 

She said, "When Chris and I started dating, my husband and I had only been separated for a couple of months. Even though we had an amicable divorce, I think that's still something that you need to mourn. When you get separated from somebody that you actually care about, it is the destruction of a belief system. That is really, really sad. I just didn't have the tools. And I didn't think very hard about that, to be honest. I wanted to step into the light. Chris is a sunny, loving, really fun person, and I didn't really understand why I should be prudent.

... We’re not on bad terms, but we haven't really seen each other, spoken a lot. I think it's probably best. I'd love to be his friend one day, but we threw down pretty hard. No regrets, though. Ever."

Chris later told USA Today, "You know, relationships are tricky, there are [a] lot of moving pieces. But I am endlessly grateful for having met her. She will be in my life always. ... We were both rooting for this. She's an incredible human being, a very, very special person. We're all lucky she's so driven; she's going to make some amazing art in her life."

In 2020, Nikki welcomed her son, Matteo, with her former Dancing with the Stars partner and fiancé at the time, Artem Chigvintsev, whom she later divorced in 2024.

She said, "I've always said it's harder for the loved ones because they often don't feel they can say, 'I'm finding it tough' for fear of people going, 'You're finding it tough? What about your partner?' When I was ill and going through treatment, he was so supportive. I love running – I run every day – and it frustrated me that I couldn't put on my running shoes and get out there. He would help me do 'laps' around the hospital ward, and we'd laugh as I tried to pick up the pace and he'd be going 'slow down!' He was a rock."

Trisha found new love with a man whose identity she keeps private. They got married in 2022.

In 2024, she publicly shared that she'd been diagnosed with breast cancer again.