Amanda Seyfried and her husband Thomas Sadoski have announced their separation after nine years of marriage.
The Mamma Mia! star, 40, and The Newsroom actor, 50, revealed they had actually been living apart ‘for a while,’ although exactly when their relationship ended remains unclear.
Confirming the news in a joint statement, the former couple insisted the separation had been positive for them and their two children.
‘We have been separated for a while, and it’s proven to be the right move for us and our family unit. We’ve got each other forever—and it’s GOOD,’ they told People.
Seyfried and Sadoski share daughter Nina, nine, and son Thomas, five, and have largely kept their family away from the Hollywood spotlight during their marriage.
And there certainly appears to be little animosity between the pair following their split.
Hours after the news emerged, Seyfried shared a photograph of her estranged husband on Instagram, showing Sadoski sitting with a reptile perched on his shoulder.
‘@thomassadoski is a #reptiledad,’ she captioned the playful snap.
She also shared several reflective messages with her followers, including one about keeping your heart open and forgiving both other people and yourself.
Another read: ‘There’s really not a difficult thing unless you decide it’s a difficult thing. Otherwise, it’s just the next thing you’re figuring out.’
The announcement comes only months after Seyfried publicly praised Sadoski for supporting her through an extraordinarily busy period in her career.
Speaking to Vogue in January, she said her husband ‘sacrifices a lot for me,’ adding that he understood the opportunities currently coming her way were ‘insane.’
That same month, the pair were photographed together at a Chateau Marmont celebration following Seyfried’s Golden Globe nomination for The Testament of Ann Lee, which is believed to have been their last public event together.
Seyfried has since been flying solo on the promotional circuit, most recently attending the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd on September 13.
The actors first met in 2015 while appearing together in the off-Broadway play The Way We Get By, although romance wasn’t immediately on the cards.
Seyfried later recalled that both were in unhappy relationships at the time and said one of the things that impressed her about Sadoski was that he never flirted with her or disrespected his then-wife.
They crossed paths again while filming The Last Word later that year, where they played love interests, and began dating in real life in early 2016.
An engagement followed before the couple quietly eloped in California in March 2017, just days before welcoming Nina.
There was no sprawling celebrity wedding or star-studded guest list. Instead, Sadoski later revealed they had headed into the countryside with an officiant and exchanged vows with nobody else present.
‘It was beautiful. It was everything that it should be,’ he said at the time. ‘It was just the two of us talking to each other.’
Seyfried similarly recalled that after marrying in Topanga, their celebrations amounted to going out for dinner, exactly how she wanted it.
The couple later welcomed Thomas Jr in September 2020 and settled into a relatively low-key family life on a farm in upstate New York, where Seyfried regularly shared glimpses of their many animals rather than their relationship.
Despite now going their separate ways, their unusually upbeat statement suggests the relationship between them is far from disappearing entirely.
As they put it themselves: ‘We’ve got each other forever.’