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She Left Her Husband Up A Creek

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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.

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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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  2. viola45 says

    Actress: Michelle Williams

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

  6. 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!

    • 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

  13. ILUVCA4evr says

    Actress:Michelle Williams

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

  16. 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.

  17. 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 😞

  19. 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.

  28. 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.

  31. BooStrawberry says

    Happy New Year Everyone!

    Michelle Williams.
    She really knows how to exploit the ‘poor widow’ image for media coverage and roles – her best acting yet!

    Imagine another high profile actress did that? There would be endless coverage, polarizing opinions and exclusives from ‘insiders’ left and right.

    I think he will remain her fiancée for a while.

  32. 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.

  33. vogliodipiu says

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

  37. 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!?!

  38. 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.

  47. 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.

  50. 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.

  52. 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.

  53. 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.

  66. Matron says

    Michelle Williams.

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

  67. 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…

  70. magi1228 says

    Actress: Michelle Williams

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

  71. 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.

  73. dagnabbit11 says

    Actress: Michelle Williams

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

  76. 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

  80. 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!:)

  86. 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.

  88. 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

  89. 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.

  90. 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.

  92. FiyahHotFlashy says

    Actress: Michelle Williams

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

  96. keiteu says

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

  97. 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.