In August 2017, Chris Pratt and Anna Faris announced that they were no longer a couple. On his official Facebook page, the Guardians of the Galaxy actor broke the sad news, saying, "We tried hard for a long time, and we're really disappointed. Our son has two parents who love him very much and for his sake we want to keep this situation as private as possible moving forward."

Since then, the couple have seemed to maintain their amicability as best as they can. "We’ll always have each other and be incredible friends," Faris said later on in an interview. "We watched each other grow, and he still cracks me up all the time. And I think I crack him up — unless he’s a really good actor and great at faking laughter."

However, there have been one or two rocky moments since their split - and Jennifer Lawrence found herself being at the center of one of them.

The first harsh knock to Faris' and Pratt's newfound "friendship" was the rumors that Faris was "furious" that her ex-husband had started dating Olivia Munn. Pratt and Munn were friends while he was still with Faris, and had even spent some time together as couples (at the time, Munn had been dating NFL player Aaron Rodgers).

However, last month, Munn shared a text message exchange between herself and Faris that proved otherwise. In the message, Munn assured Faris that a recent tabloid story about herself and Pratt was not true, and finished off by wishing the actress a happy new year.

Faris, in return, said, "You are so sweet to text ... let's please catch up soon" - so there's obviously no animosity there.

A year before that, however, different rumors began to circulate that Jennifer Lawrence was having an affair with Pratt while he was still married - and she's only just spoken out to finally clear up the matter.

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"I never had an affair with Chris Pratt on Passengers," she said in an interview yesterday.

And she denied it at the time, too - as did Pratt. However, Faris later admitted that she was made to feel "incredibly insecure" about the rumors, and the thought of her husband cheating on her behind her back made her feel "hurt".

When Faris and Pratt eventually split, those rumors obviously got resurfaced.

"I mean they got a divorce like two years later and everybody was like [shouting] Jennifer Lawrence! And I was like what the … what I’m in Montreal two years later," the 27-year-old Hunger Games actress said.

She also mentioned that she'd been tied to another big name Hollywood actor on another occasion. "It was super flattering but at one point I was just like ‘dating Brad Pitt’", she said. "We were having like ‘secret rendezvous’. You know that was weird."

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"Our son has two parents who love him very much and for his sake we want to keep this situation as private as possible moving forward.

"We still have love for each other, will always cherish our time together and continue to have the deepest respect for one another."

"It started as a convenient rebound but blossomed into something very real and exciting," the source said. "Chris and Olivia have a genuine connection ... They both want to see where this goes." Munn has now addressed these rumours on Instagram, where she shared a text conversation she had with Faris, as well as some comments on the issue.

It's been a tough year for love. After Anna Faris and Chris Pratt announced their separation last summer, all of us who heralded them as "couple goals" were left disillusioned. "What is love?" we pondered during our morning commute.

Anna and Chris, who were married for eight years, took to Instagram to announce their split. “We are sad to announce we are legally separating," they stated. "We tried hard for a long time, and we’re really disappointed. Our son has two parents who love him very much and for his sake we want to keep this situation as private as possible moving forward. We still love each other and will always cherish our time together."

And it clearly prompted a veritable domino effect. Earlier this month, Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan announced that they're calling it quits after nine years of marriage. But while we all, for a short amount of time, believed that love had been rendered terminal, in a recent interview Anna Faris revealed that it was, in fact, alive and kicking - just not in the way we expected.

In an interview in the latest issue of Women's Health, Anna Faris revealed that she and her husband still have plenty of "love" for each other and that they try to keep lines of communication open. This is, of course, for the benefit of their six-year-old son, Jack, who remains their highest priority.

"What Chris and I try to do is to communicate openly. We reiterate that there aren't rules to this," the 41-year-old stated. "We have a lot of love and friendship, and our big goal is to protect Jack. I cherish my family, my close friends, my child—that makes the rest of it worth it."
She also stressed that her divorce from Chris Pratt - who she met back in 2007 at the table read for Take Me Home Tonight - hasn't disillusioned her belief in romantic love, and the prospect of future relationships. Certainly, she's currently dating cinematographer Michael Barrett.

"I love love! Like all of us, I need a sense of human connection and intimacy, Anna asserted. "At the end of a workday I feel exposed and kind of raw. I want to be with someone I can confess to, and who can confess to me."

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Well, I certainly hope that Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan will pay heed to Anna's wise words. The couple, who have a five-year-old daughter together, also took to Instagram to announce their separation.

"We have lovingly chosen to separate as a couple," the 37-year-olds stated. "We fell deeply in love so many years ago and have had a magical journey together. Absolutely nothing has changed about how much we love one another, but love is a beautiful adventure that is taking us on different paths for now."

"There are no secrets nor salacious events at the root of our decision — just two best-friends realizing it’s time to take some space and help each other live the most joyous, fulfilled lives as possible. We are still a family and will always be loving dedicated parents to Everly. We won’t be commenting beyond this, and we thank you all in advance for respecting our family’s privacy.  Sending lots of love to everyone." 

So there you have it. While the whole notion of "love" has seemed to be in jeopardy of late, Anna Faris proved that it's possible to have a happy and healthy relationship with your ex. Here’s hoping that Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan will quickly reach this conclusion too...

The divorce of Chris Pratt and Anna Faris really was a devastating blow for us romantics. They were together for eight years, and the way Anna described their relationship in her book, Unqualified, made it seem like it was totally a fairytale romance. She wrote about how he would braid her hair and send flowers to her workplace every Friday, adding that he "taught" her "how to be happy".

Anna's book, which was published mere months after the announcement of their divorce, chronicles how they first met on the set of Take Me Home Tonight while she was still married to her first husband, Ben Indra. She says that they fell in love over long walks and late night chats, with Anna ultimately leaving Ben for Chris when she realised that she was in the wrong relationship.

But alas, things didn't work out, and the couple announced their separation over social media almost exactly a year ago. "We are sad to announce we are legally separating," they shared in a joint statement. "We tried hard for a long time, and we’re really disappointed."

Since the divorce, the couple has continued to speak highly of one another, and are keeping things civil to ensure that their six-year-old son Jack remains a priority. Anna has been dating cinematographer Michael Barrett since November, and Chris has had an ongoing summer fling with Katherine Schwarzenegger - Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver's daughter.

However, in an interesting turn of events, they were recently spotted hanging out together without Jack. The ex-couple was seen out in public going for walks on Monday and Tuesday, according to E! News. Little Jack was with them on the Monday, all smiles and skipping between his parents, who also seemed pretty happy on their walk through Santa Monica, California.

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The next day, however, Chris, 39, and Anna, 41, were pictured without their son. Again, they were going for a casual daytime scroll, both wearing some kind of lanyard.

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While tabloids and hopeful fans might be ready to point at the pics and scream that they are getting back together... I wouldn't be so sure. I mean, exes can be friends, and these guys probably see each other all the time because of Jack.

Anna detailed in her book how the relationship suffered when Chris shot to super-stardom.

"For a long time, I felt really lucky," she wrote. "Even though Chris was becoming hugely famous and I’d been sort of famous for a while, the two of us led such boring lives that the tabloids usually left us alone … But when Chris filmed Passengers with Jennifer Lawrence, that all changed."

"I didn’t think it would bother me … But then, when it actually started and magazines began running rumours, it was totally hurtful."

It's been confirmed several times that there was never any truth to the rumours about the Passengers co-stars forming a romantic relationship, though the associated stress of that period was ultimately what lead the couple to decide to mutually and amiably call it quits.

We're happy to see they still hang out, especially for the sake of Jack.

The word 'divorce' stinks of heartbreak, painful legal proceedings, and all round nasty feeling - but Anna Faris and Chris Pratt have seemingly managed to avoid all of this.

The former Hollywood couple continually prove that your relationship with your ex doesn't have to be unpleasant - something that was once again confirmed by Anna's comments this week.

Opening up about her friendship with the Guardians of the Galaxy star during a recent appearance on the Divorce Sucks podcast, she named Chris "so sweet" and "an amazing person".

"We are so good and respectful towards each other," she said. "And I think that there is so much kindness and love."

The actress continued to admit that, despite the goodwill between the pair, the split was hard on her, saying: "It is very difficult to be completely separate from somebody you have spent so much emotional investment with. I had two 10-year relationships back to back so how do you emotionally leave that person behind? That’s a tricky thing to grapple with."

Here's Anna Faris and Chris Pratt, shortly before their split in early 2018:

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When later asked if she would get married again, the House Bunny star cast doubt on the idea, stating: "I will say I believe in love and monogamy and I believe in the commitment with a relationship... I do struggle, having gone through it a couple of times now, with the idea of our legal system just making... I struggle with that on a feminist level."

She went on to admit that she’s "not crazy about weddings" - so it's probably safe to say that we won't see her getting married to boyfriend Michael Barrett anytime soon.

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It's not the first time the 42-year-old has spoken out about Chris. In the past, she has expressed her happiness for him and his fiancée, Katherine Schwarzenegger, even reminding them that she's an ordained minister and offering to marry them.

On her podcast, Unqualified, she revealed that Chris had messaged her about the proposal before the announcement, the morning after he had popped the big question, stating: "Chris texted me this morning and he was like, 'I proposed to Katherine last night.' And I was like, 'Ahh, that’s amazing'. And I texted him back like, 'I just wanted to remind you I’m an ordained minister.'"

She added: "I’m so happy for them. I knew that it was gonna happen and I love her and I love him and I’m just so happy that they found each other."

On the same podcast, she also spoke about what it was like going through the break-up and sharing custody of their son, Jack.

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"Chris and I work really hard ‘cause we have Jack, that is sort of the long game idea and making sure Jack is really happy, which makes us really happy," she explained. "We have sort of the luxury of circumstance. You know, we are both in other loving relationships. … But it’s like, how do you not in general sink into a place of bitterness?"

She continued: "I do want to reiterate though that I f**king acknowledge - we all do, everyone acknowledges - that there is bitterness and pain with all breakups and that hopefully makes us human. But the long game is just the worst, being the bigger person. It just is. It f***ing sucks until, then when it happens though, is that everyone’s happy."

It sure sounds like they're nailing this whole divorce thing - Anna and Chris, you're an inspiration to us all!