{"id":39863,"date":"2017-08-21T04:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39863"},"modified":"2017-08-20T23:29:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T03:29:40","slug":"joss-whedons-ex-wife-on-whedons-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/08\/21\/joss-whedons-ex-wife-on-whedons-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Joss Whedon’s ex-wife on Whedon’s affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kai Cole<\/a> at The Wrap<\/em>:<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been asked some questions by the press recently about my divorce from Joss Whedon, to whom I was married for 16 years. There is misinformation out there and I feel the best way to clear up the situation is to tell my truth. Let me begin by saying I am a very private person and the act of writing this is antithetical to who I am and everything I stand for. Yet, at the same time, I feel compelled to go on the record and clear up some misperceptions. I don\u2019t think it is fair to me or other women to remain silent any longer.<\/p>\n

I met Joss in 1991. I was driving across the country from Massachusetts on a whim, and met him when I was passing through Los Angeles. We fell in love and I moved to L.A. so we could be together.<\/p>\n

I was with him when his Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em> script was adapted, and the resulting movie released. It was painful to see how his vision was interpreted by the production team and on our honeymoon to England in 1995, I urged him to figure out how to turn it into a TV show. He didn\u2019t want to work in television anymore, following in his father\u2019s and grandfather\u2019s footsteps, but I convinced him it was the fastest way to get the experience he needed, so he could direct his own films someday. I had no idea, in that lovely garden in Bath, that it would change everything.<\/p>\n

There were times in our relationship that I was uncomfortable with the attention Joss paid other women. He always had a lot of female friends, but he told me it was because his mother raised him as a feminist, so he just liked women better. He said he admired and respected females, he didn\u2019t lust after them. I believed him and trusted him. On the set of Buffy<\/em>, Joss decided to have his first secret affair.<\/p>\n

Fifteen years later, when he was done with our marriage and finally ready to tell the truth, he wrote me, \u201cWhen I was running Buffy<\/em>, I was surrounded by beautiful, needy, aggressive young women. It felt like I had a disease, like something from a Greek myth. Suddenly I am a powerful producer and the world is laid out at my feet and I can\u2019t touch it.\u201d But he did touch it. He said he understood, \u201cI would have to lie \u2014 or conceal some part of the truth \u2014 for the rest of my life,\u201d but he did it anyway, hoping that first affair, \u201cwould be ENOUGH, that THEN we could move on and outlast it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joss admitted that for the next decade and a half, he hid multiple affairs and a number of inappropriate emotional ones that he had with his actresses, co-workers, fans and friends, while he stayed married to me. He wrote me a letter when our marriage was falling apart, but I still didn\u2019t know the whole truth, and said, \u201cI\u2019ve never loved anyone or wanted to be with anyone in any real or long-term way except for you ever. And I love our life. I love how you are, how we are, who you are and what we\u2019ve done both separately and together, how much fun we have\u2026\u201d He wanted it all; he didn\u2019t want to choose, so he accepted the duality as a part of his life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kai Cole at The Wrap: I\u2019ve been asked some questions by the press recently about my divorce from Joss Whedon, to whom I was married for 16 years. There is misinformation out there and I feel the best way to clear up the situation is to tell my truth. Let me begin by saying I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13],"tags":[1086,122,101],"class_list":["post-39863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-usa","tag-marriage","tag-movies","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-amX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39907,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39863\/revisions\/39907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}