Bill Murray has spoken out for the first time on his breakup with his wife. Bill’s wife of nearly 11 years filed for divorce in May. In the papers filed by Jennifer Butler Murray, she alleged that Murray abused her and was addicted to alcohol and marijuana, among many other horrific charges. One expected a very messy public divorce trial would proceed, but the divorce was quickly made final in June. With some quick negotiation a court decided that the couple’s four children will live with their mother, while Murray has visitation rights and will pay child support.
Though the freshness of such a wound would keep many Hollywood stars far away from the press, Murray, 58, came to New York from his home upstate to help publicize “City of Ember,” a film opening Friday in which he co-stars along with Saoirse Ronan, the young star of “Atonement,” and Tim Robbins. In a forthright and emotional conversation, Murray rarely struck a tone of bitterness about the break-up, but rather spoke with watery eyes of a tremendously painful summer trying to reconcile himself to the divorce.
Not unlike The deadpan and depressed characters he has specialized in portraying” the news deeply troubled Murray and left him somber. Murray said:
That was devastating. That was the worst thing that ever happened to me in my entire life. I was just dead, just broken.
“When you’re really in love with someone and this happens _ I never had anything like this happen,” he said. “It’s like your faith in people is destroyed because the person you trusted the most you can no longer trust at all. … The person you know isn’t there anymore.”
Murray said his lowest point came a few weeks ago. When friends asked if he wanted to participate in an air show to support the Illinois United Service Organizations (Murray grew up outside Chicago), he accepted the skydiving invitation.
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