Funeral Instead of Wedding: Celebrity Love Stories Ending in Tragedy

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Most films end with happy ends: lovers, having passed all the tests, get married and live happily ever after. But, unfortunately, everything in life is much more prosaic, and even celebrities with their money and influence are sometimes powerless in the face of the blows of fate. These couples loved each other and planned to get married, but instead of a wedding, alas, a funeral took place.

Meryl Streep and John Cazale

The 27-year-old actress, who was just taking her first steps in the cinema, met 40-year-old John Casale, when he was already considered an accomplished star. The man contributed to the promotion of his lover's career in Hollywood, and they even played together in the film "Deer Hunter", after which Meryl received her first Oscar nomination.

Since then, Streep's career has gone uphill, and therefore, when she was offered to fly to Australia to shoot, Casale did not interfere. True, the man hid from his beloved that he was diagnosed with oncology. The actress returned home only a few months later, and what she saw shocked her: the groom, due to illness, could no longer even get out of bed. The lovers had a little less than a hundred days to be together.

Meryl spent the last months of her life next to John and after his death decided that from now on she would not sacrifice her personal life for her career. The sculptor John Gummer supported the actress after she lost her fiancé, and soon he turned from a best friend to a husband. The couple have raised four children and are trying to live away from camera flashes.

Zhanna Friske and Dmitry Shepelev

The ex-"Brilliant" never suffered from a lack of male attention, and she was credited with novels with recognized beauties of domestic show business. However, the singer gave her heart to the young and promising TV presenter Dmitry Shepelev. The lovers were not embarrassed by the almost ten-year age difference (Friske was older), but they preferred to keep their relationship secret. And in 2013, the couple had a son, Plato, and the artist disappeared from the secular crowd, preferring to devote time to her family.

But, as it turned out, the reason was not only this: Jeanne was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. Unfortunately, even modern medicine was powerless against this ailment. Jeanne passed away in 2015. And her relatives for a long time "shared" her grandson with Shepelev. As a result, the latter stopped showing his son to those close to Friske altogether. He also found his love: for two years now he has been living with the architect Ekaterina Tulupova.

Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Syme

Keanu Reeves is one of the most mysterious, weird and saddest Hollywood actors. But there are reasons for this: the events that happened to him left an imprint on his life for a long time.

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In 1999, the actor and his fiancée Jennifer Syme were preparing to become parents, but a few weeks before the birth, a planned ultrasound scan showed that the baby was dead in the womb. The lovers were very worried about this tragedy, and a little over a year later, Jennifer was gone too: she died in a car accident. Keanu admitted that then only work gave him strength to live. But it was from then that he became a hermit. True, last year Reeves' fans still had a reason for joy: the actor was published with the artist Alexandra Grant. The couple was just friends for many years, and then realized that she was connected by something more.

Teona Dolnikova and Nikita Bychenkov

The musical star Teon Dolnikova met with actor Nikita Bychenkov for more than a year, and the couple was preparing for the wedding. But in 2014, a young man unexpectedly died of a heart failure. The girl was very worried about the loss and decided to start a new relationship only two years after the death of her beloved. The new chosen one of the artist was the actor Maxim Schegolev, whom she married and gave birth to a son, Luka.

Gemma Ward and Heath Ledger

The fact that the now deceased actor had a relationship shortly before his death, the public learned only later. Gemma Ward herself told about them after she was able to recover from the incident.

At the beginning of the 2000s, the girl was one of the successful models, but due to the gained weight and fatigue, Gemma's popularity began to fade. Hit became one of the few who supported her during that difficult period. And gradually, friendly relations grew into romantic ones. True, they lasted only a few months - in 2008, the actor's heart stopped beating due to a combustible mixture of pills and tranquilizers.

Only work helped the girl to escape from grief - she very successfully began to show herself in the acting field. Her personal life also improved: five years after the death of Ledger, Gemma gave birth to a daughter and a son from a fashion model David Letts.

Petra Nemkova and Simon Aitley

The Czech top model and the photographer met for two years, and by an unfortunate accident at the end of 2004 they ended up on the island of Phuket in Thailand, where they went on vacation. It was then that a more powerful tsunami occurred there, the victims of which were about three hundred thousand people.

A huge wave covered the lovers too. Simon died, and Petra managed to catch hold of a palm tree and wait eight hours for the rescuers to find it. But the model received such serious injuries that the doctors were not sure that she would be able to walk at all: the girl's pelvis was broken in four places.

But Nemkova not only got on her feet, but even took part in a project similar to our "Dancing with the Stars". Later, in memory of her deceased groom, the girl founded a fund that helped victims of natural disasters. Petra's personal life did not go well for a long time: she met with famous actors, but not a single romance resulted in anything serious. However, the model was still able to find happiness: in 2019, she married businessman Benjamin Lerretche and gave birth to a son from him.

Ekaterin White and Jim Carrey

In 2012, Ekaterin worked as a makeup artist on the set of one of the films in which Jim was involved. The couple met for several months, and then broke up, but two years later, she resumed the relationship. However, in 2015, a falling out broke out between the lovers, after which they decided to put another point in their romance.

And five days later, the girl's dead body was found at her home by friends who sounded the alarm after she stopped communicating. There were pills next to the corpse, and experts concluded that White had died of an overdose of potent drugs.

Friends and relatives of Ekaterin hurried to accuse Jim of driving her to suicide and even sued the actor. But Kerry was acquitted. There is also a version that the girl killed herself after a quarrel with her mother. Also, some are sure that White was pushed to commit suicide by the Church of Scientology, whose teachings she became interested in shortly before her death.

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As for Kerry, he began to feel really depressed, and only work helped him out of this state.

Marion Cotillard and Julien Rassam

The romance of the actress and her chosen one developed rapidly, and the lovers were even going to get married. But the young man suffered from drug addiction and mental disorders. And once he attempted suicide, throwing himself out of the window in front of his beloved.

Julien managed to survive, but he remained disabled. However, Marion did not leave the groom, she was always by his side and did everything to get him back on his feet. But Rassam still did not give up trying to commit suicide and two years later he attempted suicide again. This time it turned out to be successful.

Only a few years later, the actress managed to recover from a terrible tragedy: in 2007, she married Guillaume Canet and gave birth to his son and daughter.

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