Silverstein and Phillips first met not long after Phillips split fromColin Hanks.
And Silverstein’s real life has been inspired by his art, too.
He used some of the vows he and Phillips exchanged in his film “The Vow.”

Meanwhile, Phillips had no idea until she saw the film on a plane.
There was a point where Phillips told Silverstein she was leaving, and the pair almost divorced.
“Marc was like, ‘I’ll do anything.’

And I was like, ‘Okay, then do everything.
“I was fully out the door … “There was a man I was friends with, another dad.
We’d been having lunch and stuff.

“Honestly, I had a crush on him…He clearly liked me too.”
Ultimately it was Phillips’s BFFMichelle Williamswho convinced her to give things another shot with Silverstein.
Phillps said adjusting to quarantining together plus their two children was a “process.”
“We just had to prioritize.
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