Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski confirmed their marriage is over, telling People in a joint statement that “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,” according to reporting from outlets including WSB-TV and AOL.
The two married in March 2017 after eloping, following a relationship that started when they met performing together in the off-Broadway play “The Way We Get By.” They share two children, daughter Nina, 9, and son Thomas Jr., who turns 6 later this month. Nine years is a long run by any Hollywood standard, and the pair had kept their marriage almost entirely out of the tabloid cycle, rarely commenting on their relationship in public and giving few joint interviews about their life together.
What stands out in their statement is what it does not do. There is no blame assigned, no mention of a third party, no hint of the acrimony that usually accompanies a celebrity split announcement. Instead the couple frames the separation itself as a considered decision, something arrived at rather than something that happened to them, and closes by affirming the family bond stays intact regardless of the marriage’s status. That framing matters for how a split lands on kids old enough to read headlines about their own parents.
Key Points
- Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski confirmed their split in a joint statement to People, saying the decision “proven to be the right move” for their family.
- The couple married in March 2017 and shares two children, Nina, 9, and Thomas Jr., who turns 6 this month.
- The statement makes no reference to blame or a third party, instead framing the separation as a mutual decision that preserves the family relationship.
Statements like this one are worth paying attention to precisely because they are rare. Most celebrity breakup announcements arrive through unnamed sources feeding details to outlets before either party has said a word themselves, which tends to shape a narrative of fault before anyone involved gets to define it on their own terms. Seyfried and Sadoski skipped that entirely and spoke for themselves, together, in one statement.
For any couple going through a long-term separation, celebrity or not, the structure of that statement offers something usable: naming the decision as intentional, keeping the language about the family rather than the failure, and refusing to let anyone else write the story first.
