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Christine Taylor<\/strong><\/a> candidly discussed how she and husband Ben Stiller<\/strong><\/a> reconciled years after their “challenging” 2017 split, crediting the COVID-19 pandemic for helping the pair reconcile.<\/p>\n

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“If there was a silver lining for us during COVID, that was the little gift,” Taylor, 54, said while appearing on the Tuesday, May 26, episode of “The McBride Rewind”<\/a> podcast. “We all kind of bubbled up together with the kids. Our daughter was graduating high school at the time, our son was graduating eighth grade.”<\/p>\n

Taylor added that she and Stiller, 60, had “nothing but time,” so they “spent a lot of time just working on us with a therapist.” She continued, “We’d log into Zoom and we’d do our therapy sessions and really found the way back.”<\/p>\n

The couple – who got married in 2000 and share kids Ella<\/strong>, 24, and Quinlin<\/strong>, 20 – announced they were separating in May 2017.<\/p>\n

“We were just not on the same page with a lot of things and working so hard to try to make it fit and make it right,” Taylor explained of their split. “And I think really when we kind of just zoomed out on it, it was like, \u2018Let’s just put a pause here.'”<\/p>\n

Taylor added that breaking up was the best option for them at the time, though “it was very difficult to come to that decision.”<\/p>\n

“It was not without, you know, a heavy heart and feeling really even dejected at the time of like, \u2018This is not how I imagined it was going to be and we should have been able to work it out,'” she said. “I mean, it was challenging.”<\/p>\n

While Taylor and Stiller didn’t confirm they were back together until 2022, they were always connected through their children.<\/p>\n

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“We were always in contact,” Taylor said. “We were coparenting together. We were spending time together as a family.”<\/p>\n

Stiller previously spoke about his split from Taylor in his October 2025 documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost<\/em>, admitting that he often compared their relationship<\/a> to the relationship of his parents, Jerry Stiller<\/strong> and Anne Meara<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“When we separated, my feeling was, like, \u2018Oh, I’m failing at this and look at my parents. They have this incredible 60 plus years of marriage and I can’t live up to that,'” Stiller said, referring to his late mother and father, who were married for 61 years.<\/p>\n

Stiller added that he felt an “aversion” to working with Taylor. The couple has worked together on several projects, including Zoolander, Tropic Thunder, Dodgeball, Dedication<\/em> and Friendsgiving<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Taylor, who also appeared in the documentary, acknowledged Stiller had a “history” of couples working together because his parents were frequent collaborators.<\/p>\n

“I think a lot of it was your experience about what that ultimately meant for a relationship. It can put extra strain when you’re eating, sleeping, breathing each other in that way,” she said. “I also felt like there was a fear for you for me of what that would look like to the outside world. I mean it was very loaded.”<\/p>\n

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