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[Blind Gossip] While everyone is busy congratulating this actress on her latest engagement and pregnancy, the story of how all this happened isn’t quite so nice!

She had only been married a couple of weeks to [Husband] when she began cheating on him with [New Fiance].

Yikes! She really left him up a creek with that sneaky move!

She kept saying that it was a really intense project and that’s why she need to spend so much time with [New Fiance]. [Her Husband] trusted her because they had just gotten married. Now he is kicking himself for being so stupid to believe her.

It’s interesting that the press has been so gentle and congratulatory on her new relationship without questioning the timing or the overlap with her marriage.

She comes across as this really nice, gentle person, but she actually is a lying, conniving witch. She gets a lot of mileage out of playing the “poor widow.”

That’s a reference to yet another previous relationship. She dated a famous actor who is now deceased. They never married, but they were together for several years and had a child, so many people assume that they were married.

Now that [Husband] looks back, he should have realized that she married him just a couple of months after breaking her engagement with a different guy. That should have told him something about her character.

Live and learn.

In case you are keeping score at home, this is our actress’ third engagement in two years!

What kind of person does that?

Similar: The Hateful Husband

Actress:

[Optional] Do you think she will marry her New Fiance?

SOLVED!

Actress: Michelle Williams

Michelle Williams really, really, really wants to win an Oscar someday!

She has been nominated four times, but has never won.

To that end, she is going all out on buffing up her image during this awards season.

That “buffing”, however, involves a jaw-dropping amount of hypocrisy, misdirection and general B.S.!

From Maureen Callahan at The New York Post:

Want to know how much any given actor wants an Oscar? Just listen to them talk — and talk and talk and talk — about people and subjects that were once famously off-limits.

…

As the old saying goes, you can’t have it both ways. Either you’re commodifying personal experience and loss for an Oscar or you’re not. It’s a choice, a devil’s bargain, one clearly hard to resist.

The Oscars aren’t really about rewarding the best performance or film of any given year.

Your friends at Blind Gossip have told you that many, many times!

It’s always down to the other story any given nominee is telling. And that other story — “I’ve suffered, I’ve grown, I’ve overcome an illness, a death, a divorce, I didn’t just show up to work but did so under great duress and still turned in an amazing performance” — ultimately wins the award.

…

Actress Michelle Williams refused to talk about her late ex-boyfriend Heath Ledger for years — but that changed in 2010, when she was campaigning for “Blue Valentine,” breaking her silence to ABC’s “Nightline.”

Then she quickly went to The Daily Beast, complaining that ABC duped her. Her people-pleasing nature, she said, had been exploited by evil news producers.

“I am still such the good girl,” cawed Williams, who had been working in Hollywood since her teen years and well knew her way around an Oscar campaign.

“The way they edited the piece . . . it appeared as if I were breaking some kind of silence and sitting down with the express purpose to discuss something that is very private to me.”

She was! She did! And ever since, her public persona has been the fragile Widow Ledger, one she now plays into on social media with her best friend, Busy Phillips.

Here’s Michelle Williams – a.k.a. The Fragile Widow Ledger – with the late Heath Ledger. Williams and Ledger had a child together but never married.

And here is Michelle Williams with best friend Busy Philipps.

Most recently, Williams leveraged yet another aspect of her personal life, going to People magazine days before the Golden Globes to soft-pedal the timeline of her new romance and pregnancy, which contained two inconvenient details: She was married to another man as recently as last year, and her new fiancé happens to be her director — who was married to another woman at the time.

Upon accepting her Golden Globe two weeks ago, a visibly pregnant Williams launched into a tearful speech about a woman’s right to choose, alluded to having had an abortion in the past, then urged women to go out and vote.

That was one weird, WTF moment, as it had nothing to do with her role.

It was a stunning example of what such hypocrisy can do. Williams’ speech had no tether to the role for which she won, as dancer and choreographer Gwen Verdon.

It was an attempt to hijack and distract from a messy romance that threatens her well-crafted image. And one can see why she did it, because this is what happens when a movie star keeps moving the goalposts of what is and is not up for public consumption, of what they’re willing to sacrifice for an award.

Michelle Williams has a dated some famous men (including Bobby Cannavale, Heath Ledger, Spike Jonze, and Jason Segal).

Remember when she walked around New York for a couple of years with Jason Segal and her daughter like they were a little family?

That did not end well.

Anyway, let’s focus on just the past two years!

  • Michelle Williams got engaged to Andrew Youmans (2017-2018).
  • She got engaged to and married Phil Elverum (2018-2019)
  • She got pregnant by and got engaged to Thomas Kail (2019).

Here she is with Thomas Kail, her director on Fosse Verdon, her new baby daddy, and her new fiance.

That’s three engagements in two years… and an awful lot of overlapping!

So, yes, her Public Relations team had to work overtime to bury that messiness and create a completely different narrative for Michelle Williams in order for her to win the Golden Globe.

We’ll see if their PR strategy of misdirection and sacrifice and loss and I’m-such-the-good-girl and abortion tears and widow-pity pays eventually pays off with an Oscar!

Did you catch the “up a creek”/Dawson’s Creek clue?

If you did, James Van Der Beek, Joshua Jackson, and Katie Holmes say, “Good for you!”

Congratulations to DaniJo for being first with the correct response!

Do you think Michelle Williams’ PR strategy is a good one? Do you think she will eventually win an Oscar?

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Comments

  1. aaaMuffy says

    I speculate that she will be one of the often nominated with a long losing streak. Eventually, when she is long in the tooth, she will receive an honourary Oscar for her body of work. If it were just about talent she likely would have won by now.

  2. august2019 says

    Wow, what a PR team she has. I had no idea her love life was so erratic. I feel bad for the daughter having to deal with all the different men in her life.

    I for one lost respect for her when she capitalized in the metoo movement and sold mark w down the river. She made such a fuss over his reshoot fee, which most a list stars receive including a list actresses. She might be Oscar worthy, but she isn’t a box office draw. Didn’t stop her from playing victim and making speeches, tho.

  3. PomegranatePam says

    I heard her then husband uprooted his child to be with her. Not cool. But there’s something so classy and quaint about her image that average Americans just don’t look into her love life. Ironically her “choice” speech might have put end to that!

  4. itstarapagain says

    When Heath and Michelle split, I read in Vanity Fair that she became quite unreasonable with her financial demands and kept him from their kid. Same with his will/estate.
    I respect her for making sure that her daughter has relationships with the Ledgers. Visits his family or they come to the US plus regular Skype etc… but… the 3 engagements plus 1 marriage plus 1 split plus a pregnancy. It’s exhausting and that is difficult to understand. Wish them all well with the baby.

  5. please says

    This skank has been targeting married men for years while she plays the poor widow (who was never married to Heath). Messy and heartless.

  6. mmssjj18 says

    Jodie turner Smith
    I think third time is a charm since it’s such a high profile relationship

  10. Aurora says

    Michelle Williams. I’ve never liked her. She’s a piece of trash just like her father.

  11. donna47129 says

    Michelle Williams, no, I don’t believe they will marry. I think she will get bored first.

  15. tippi1971 says

    I think this is Michelle Williams. She just recently got engaged and announced she was pregnant. She also used to date Heath Ledger and they had baby Matilida Rose.

  17. smokey01 says

    Actress is Michelle Williams. She was married to Phil Elverum in July 2019 and by the end of the heat she was engaged to and pregnant by Thomas Kail!!

  18. Debohinoh says

    Actress: Michelle Williams

    First baby daddy, now deceased: Heath Ledger

    New fiance & new baby daddy: “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail

    Will they marry? Yes, for the money & connections. It won’t last. They’re not Stephen Spielberg & Kate Capshaw.

  25. Organica05 says

    Widow: Michelle Williams
    Batchelor #1: Heath Ledger
    Batchelor #2/husband 1: Phil Elverum
    Batchelor #3/father-to-be: Thomas Kail -Hamilton director (with rise of skywalker actress for 13 years, until 2019)

    Marriage: yes. Can’t have two “unlawful” children, it may spoil her sweet girl persona. Heath’s daughter was fluke of youth.

  33. rebeccadewinter says

    Michelle Williams and Hamilton director Tommy Kail. He also had a long term partner when they met. Bit * all round really as I thought they were both nice people from interviews etc.

    Bet this is a work affair that accidentally made a baby and that’s why they got together officially. If so probably won’t last.

  34. craisins86 says

    Creek (Dawson’s Creek) reference tells me this has to be Michelle Williams! Plus ref. to Heath Ledger (RIP). Karma will probably come for her at some stage, I was like her once and learned my lesson the hard way.

  38. rodieb123 says

    Michelle Williams – creek reference, Dawson’s creek.

    I did find it surprising that she was all of a sudden engaged and pregnant when I thought she’d only just gotten married to someone else!

    Hopefully everything works out for all involved. I just always feel concerned and sad for the kids involved.

  47. sherri says

    Michelle Williams

    Only time will tell if she and Thomas Kail marry. Her track record is not great.

  51. VeronicaMarsBars says

    Michelle Williams, and yes probably.
    I was surprised to hear she was engaged and pregnant so shortly after marrying and divorcing someone else within a year’s time. Mind you this blind totally clarifies what was going on. I wonder how her daughter feels about all of this revolving door business with mom and now with a new sibling on the way.

  53. menageafoie says

    Michelle Williams. She probably will marry this guy. I think she’s just looking to increase her profile and get more, serious roles as she ages. Though it’s really not necessary as she is a great actress.

    Again it demonstrates how despicable most actors/actresses/entertainers are. They have to have a high level of narcissism and sociopathy just to endure ‘the industry’. Everyone has their price and the price of fame is their soul.

    (and yes, there ARE the .0001% who ARE ok people)

  55. Sleepyandconfused says

    Michelle Williams obviously
    Probably. Just for appearances mostly. Married with a baby looks better for her PR

  62. 4sixx2 says

    Michelle Williams. I really had no idea she was considered a * because she looks always looks nice and sweet. She won’t marry.

  63. MrsWCleaver says

    Michelle Williams. She was with Heath Ledger for a long time, had a kid but never married him. Has bounced from guy to guy since.

  65. leebie78 says

    Michelle Williams. Surprised to find out she was married before…how did I miss that?! Anyway, timing is def suspicious.

  72. annabelle77 says

    This is Michelle Williams and her “engagement” to Thomas Kail. Only problem? They are both still married to the spouses they cheated on 10 months ago when they began their affair. I was fooled by Michelle’s apparent “ nice girl” image. I used to really respect her. That’s all out the window now. This girl has MAJOR issues. She’s a man eater who uses men and throws them away. I’m disgusted that she gets away with it.

  74. GayleStorm says

    Michelle Williams
    I always got the feeling that she isn’t as sweet as her phony saccharine-sweet image. She always gave off that “Oh, poor me!” little Miss Innocent vibe.

    Probably. She’ll marry him for a bit so he can support her and the baby, along with her older girl.

  76. ProfessorPep11 says

    Michelle Williams. Recently engaged and recently married, plus all the creek (Dawson’s Creek) hints.

  78. elliedee says

    Actress: Michelle Williams (even if she is a witch she was incredible in Fosse/Verdon)

    [Optional] Do you think she will marry her New Fiance?
    Probably not; she doesn’t seem to have an issue with having children without marriage.

  80. fball0921 says

    Actress: Michelle Williams, Heath Ledger’s ex.

    I think they will get married unless her current fiance starts asking questions about her past relationships.

  85. JuiceBoxHero says

    Michelle Williams
    Ex husband: Phil Elverum
    New Fiance: Thomas Kail

    They’ll marry. Then divorce.

  86. letinstar says

    Michelle Williams (actor) and Thomas Kail
    She’ll marry him to add to her collection of marriages

  91. stickaforkinit says

    Michelle Williams. I have never got why media thinks she is all that in the fashion world or the acting world. Basically just meh.

  94. LizardQueen says

    Michelle Williams

    She’ll probably have a long engagement and raise baby with fiancee.

  97. Appleton says

    Michelle Williams… left him up a creek…dawsons creek!

    I still remember the shade thrown her way when people raised eyebrows at her quick wedding to her first husband. She might get married just to keep up appearances.

  103. dadiegirl says

    Michelle Williams. Who knew? She seems pretty under the radar with her personal life.

    Well. He will be her 3rd ex husband then! Carry on!

  105. lanter says

    Michelle Williams. Since she is pregnant, I’m guessing this engagement might stick but I don’t see the marriage lasting very long. She has a reputation in Hollywood for not being nice so this blind does not surprise me. Good actress though.

  106. perfect10 says

    Michelle Williams, who cheated on Phil Elverum. Phil’s been through enough already but the Mount Eerie album about this is going to be sick

  110. boombangcrash says

    Michelle Williams.

    Probably. Maybe. She’ll be horrible to them, too. I always thought she played the “widow” card too readily.

  111. Alexicon says

    Actress: Michelle Williams
    Fiancé: ‘Hamilton’ director Thomas Kail
    Ex-Husband: Phil Elverum
    Previous Fiancé: Andrew Youmans

  113. amagod121 says

    Michelle Williams

    I haven’t a clue. I really can’t imagine the mindset of someone who cheats after two weeks of marriage and if she wants to put a permanent ring on the new relationship.

  115. Alissa48 says

    Michelle Williams – actress who likes engagements
    Thomas Kail – baby daddy & future husband

    Phil Elverumm – ex

  118. JoshuaTree says

    Michelle Williams.

    Dumped Jason Segal and married musician Phil Elverum. They split in April after less than a year of marriage and now she’s pregnant and engaged to her Fosse/Verdon director Thomas Kail.

    • mayer2816 says

      Not jason segel, that was a long time ago dude. I think his name is andrew youmans or something that she was engaged to.

  122. IcePrincess says

    Definitely Michelle Williams for the win!

    Dunno, I’ve never understood what’s so great about her – I do wonder about the little girl being subjected to a string of ‘serious’ boyfriends. Ugh.

  125. shelaur22 says

    Michelle Williams. I pity her daughter, all these different men floating in and out of her life.

  129. Riley831 says

    Michelle Willams

    Lots of guys and engagements in 2 years. Guess her goal was to get pregnant since she wanted another child. Looks like the 3rd time was the charm.

  130. Theaterfan says

    She’s a nutcase. And supposedly, it was DiCaprio who spoke up on her behalf and led her to being hired by mainstream Hollywood again–(“Shutter Island”).

    Who knows if she’ll marry this guy.

  131. Theaterfan says

    Michelle Williams is an excellent actress but extremely unstable as a person. She has gone through more men in a few years than someone goes through a bag of potato chips in an hour.

    By the way, she was planning on suing Heath Ledger for FULL custody of their daughter Matilda, causing Heath to spiral further deeper into depression, insomnia and pills. For awhile, Williams got blackballed in Hollywood as certain people like Johnny Depp planned her for Ledger’s downward spiral.

    She’s a…

    • Theaterfan says

      She’s a nutcase. And supposedly, it was DiCaprio who spoke up on her behalf and led her to being hired by mainstream Hollywood again–(“Shutter Island”).

      Who knows if she’ll marry this guy.

    • TeacherKat says

      I mean, blaming someone for someone elses mental health and drug use is not exactly fair. For all we know, she was trying to keep Matilda away from Heaths’s drug use and mental health issues.

  135. newidentity says

    I do have a hard time believing that Michelle Williams is so “conniving” but maybe the timing isn’t great either. Or maybe her new husband just sucked.

    • JenJenJen says

      Same. Seems like some overlap is here and she’s keen to lock it down but she’s never struck me as conniving. Just hard working and a good mother.

  136. keiteu says

    Poor widow: Michelle Williams
    new man: Thomas Kail
    husband: Phil Elverum
    deceased ex: Heath Ledger

  140. FiyahHotFlashy says

    Actress: Michelle Williams

    [Optional] Do you think she will marry her New Fiance? NO

  142. TeacherKat says

    Michelle Williams

    Optional: Probably. Given the timing a d the fact that she’s brought her daughter into this already (Matilda played matchmaker, etc) shows that shes clearly aware of how this looks and is trying to set/change the narrative. Marrying him will make their “true love was inevitable” story line more believable as opposed to two home wreckers.

  143. sitbyme says

    Sounds like Michelle Williams & Thomas Kail. They were both married/in serious relationships with other people when they got together on the set of Fosse/Verdon. People Magazine ran a warm & fuzzy article about this latest engagement (complete with a totally not staged pap pic) that didn’t mention any of the messiness.

  144. HelsBellsLondon says

    Actress: Michelle Williams

    Optional: No. I hadn’t even realised that she had split from her husband. She does come across as very sweet and has played the “poor widow” very well…maybe it is all an act

  146. Lindasu says

    Michelle Williams. I had hoped she was nice, etc. But suspected she was another Meg Ryan. It was all PR. Op: No. I think she realized all along she’s just not the married type.

  152. Baileygirl says

    The only actress I can think of is Michelle Williams who had a child with Heath Ledger but wasn’t married to him. I hope it is not her because I like her but that clue about having a child with a deceased actor fits. I am not sure about fiances etc. I don’t keep up with her love life!:)

  156. delray74 says

    Michelle Williams. Is everything about her fake? Is there a real person in there somewhere? She did such a number on Jason Segel that he all but quit the business

  159. dagnabbit11 says

    Actress: Michelle Williams

    [Optional] Do you think she will marry her New Fiance? Yes

  161. wendy2407 says

    Definitely Michelle Williams. I thought of this, though, when I heard the news because I remembered that her and her husband had split around the time she was filming Fosse/Verdon, and didn’t think it was a coincidence that they split when she started spending time with the director. I’ve always thought she was a different person than the media portrayed her to be. People forget that her and Heath weren’t together anymore when he died.

  162. magi1228 says

    Actress: Michelle Williams

    Do you think she will marry her New Fiance? Only if the wedding can help her career

  165. charlene2345 says

    Michelle Williams, announced she’s pregnant and engaged to the director of “Hamilton” even though she was only divorced from her last husband a few months ago

    Clues: “Up a creek” (she starred on “Dawson’s Creek”). The related blind is about Bijou Phillips, married to Danny Masterson who was accused of sexual abuse, and Williams was very involved in Times Up movement. Williams was also involved with Heath Ledger who died.

    Optional: Marriage is not for everyone. Maybe it’s just…

  166. Matron says

    Michelle Williams.

    I don’t think she’ll marry him. They’ll split up towards the end of the pregnancy.

  178. yournewbff says

    Michelle Williams & her new fiance Tommy Kail (who I think is also still technically married?)
    I think they’ll get married, because why not at this point.

  179. WhoDatGirl says

    Actress: Michelle Williams

    Will she marry him? Maybe, maybe not. If someone comes along who is richer/higher profile, she’ll probably move on again.

  181. avalonlee says

    Michelle Williams, Cute Dawson Creek references. Yeah, usually the media loves a good cheating story. She comes across as arrogant to me, not sweet and nice.

  184. melrose71 says

    Michelle Williams. I saw how news outlets pointed out this overlap. If she’s getting bad press on it, she’ll probably marry him so it doesn’t look as bad.

  193. bec215d says

    Michelle Williams, who married Phil Elverum in July of 2018 and separated a few months after when she started working with, and presumably had an affair with, her Fosse/Verdun director/producer. Williams wouldn’t be the first woman to go through with a wedding knowing it was a mistake… but she should’ve come clean and divorced or had it annulled immediately after rather than hiding it from Elverum.

  194. AmateurGossipHour says

    Michelle Williams

    OMG, she really had me fooled! Although I did wonder why she wasn’t with Phil Elverum anymore, from what I’ve read even Heath Ledger’s family were very happy Elverum was in Matilda’s life!?!

  197. vogliodipiu says

    Michelle Williams..nice Dawson’s Creek reference! 3 engagements in 2 years is insane!!!

  198. aaaMaryg says

    Michelle Williams.
    Yikes! I didn’t know she was that awful. She really comes.across as a good person.
    Poor Jason Segel, then! I read that their breakup was really hard on him.
    And poor Heath Ledger.

  201. GretaGuesses says

    Michelle Williams. Just read that she was engaged and pregnant. She had a child with Heath Ledger. She married Phil Elverum in 2018 and divorced him in 2019. She became engaged to Thomas Kail in 2019. Sounds like she’s not quite the sweetheart that people think she is.

    She will probably marry Thomas, unless someone she likes better comes along before the wedding.

  210. ZedsDead says

    Michelle Williams. She’s a complete * for me.

    Don’t know if she’ll marry him or not, I think it depends on how far along she is in the pregnancy.

  212. aleshamom4 says

    Took me a minute..
    Actress Michelle Williams (up a creek Dawson’s Creek)
    Previous hubby less than a year Phil Elvrum
    Previous deceased ex Heath Ledger
    New fiancé Thomas Kail
    Wow, this disappoints me if true, thought she was better than that.. no wonder Heath was so depressed being apart from Matilda, wonder if MW kept her from him 😞

  213. cakeboy says

    Michelle Williams, who was the ‘grieving widow’ of Heath Ledger, and then married Phillip Elverum, and cheated on him with Thomas Kail while working on Fosse/Verdon.

    Option – no, should touch her with a barge pole. She is a bigger slapper than a seal.

  216. ILUVCA4evr says

    Actress:Michelle Williams

    [Optional] Do you think she will marry her New Fiance? Well she’s preggo, so probably

    • mmssjj18 says

      Thank you BG for making me feel less crazy. That timeline….. ugh I remember when she said she was soooooooo private and then days later was the face of Louis Vuitton
      I think her best role was in a YouTube/Instagram series where she played Joanne, a scamming white lady. It was her most honest role

  223. surfsunsand05 says

    Actress: Michelle Williams, who just announced that she’s engaged to Thomas Kail, and they’re expecting a baby together. She got married to Phil Elverum in July 2018, and then started shooting “Fosse/Verdon” with Thomas Kail in November that year. It was reported in April 2019 they had split “earlier in the year.” Before marrying Phil Elverum she was engaged to Andrew Youmans until sometime in 2018.

    Do you think she will marry her New Fiance? Sure, getting married is the easy part!

  227. viola45 says

    Actress: Michelle Williams

    Optional: Yes, if they get married before having the baby. Otherwise, no.