Addison O’Dea (left) and Minnie Driver at the 2019 Chanel pre-Oscars awards dinner; Minnie Driver and Addison O’Dea on their first date.Photo:Minnie Driver/Instagram (2)
Minnie Driver/Instagram (2)
Minnie Driveris showing her appreciation forAddison O’Deaon their anniversary.
“It’s our anniversary today,” Driver wrote as the post’s caption. “Five years filled with laughter, grief, creativity and becoming our little tribe of 4 (counting Bob).”
Throughout 2019, Driver shared snaps of her and O’Dea together, such as on a group trip in Cornwall in July of that year, but it wasn’t until the Emmys that they made their relationship more official.
Minnie Driver and her partner Addison O’Dea.TheImageDirect.com
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In 2022, Driver went onThe Kelly Clarkson Showwhere she told Clarkson that she and O’Dea first met at a friend’s breakfast and later went on a “sea-based incursion” where they became “shipwrecked.” While waiting for the coast guard Driver says she “asked him every question about why men are unfaithful, why men do the things that they do.”
The actress went on to explain that she told O’Dea “I’m ruined, I’m never gonna have another boyfriend,” to which he replied, “Well, I don’t want a girlfriend, and definitely not you.”
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She added, “Of course, we became friends. And of course, we fell in love. And of course, we’ve been together ever since.”
Driver and O’Dea first publicly revealed their relationship when they stepped out together for the AmazonEmmy Awardsafter party at Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles on Sept. 18, 2019.
Driver has been previously linked to other famous faces such asHarrison FordandMatt Damon.
In 2022, sheopened up about her relationship with Damon, whom she dated from 1997 to 1998, in her memoirManaging Expectations: A Memoir in Essays: “My family loved Matt — it wasn’t that. It was that they could see that this young man was rocketing really fast and so was I, and when you’re young, it’s pretty hard to keep your head on straight and to maintain a grounded sense of deportment.”
Driver added at the time, “They were like, ‘This may well end badly for reasons that are to do with all these things coming together in a perfect storm.’ while also noting “you shouldn’t date someone you work with.”
source: people.com
