
Sign up for Us Weekly's free, daily newsletter and never miss breaking news or exclusive stories about your favorite celebrities, TV shows and more! “I hope people have the sense to really understand that everything was beautiful and wonderful in our relationship and so pure.” Brittany’s life was dogged by ridiculous rumors, and the truth always wins out,” he told Us Weekly in February 2010. “Our marriage was dogged by these ridiculous rumors. The man at the helm of one of Murphy’s final films remembered the Georgia native coming to set and “be in a really good place, and then I would see her go off with Simon.” When she would come back, Merkin said he “felt a stark change in her mood.”įollowing her death, many including Murphy’s father, Angelo Bertolotti, accused Monjack of having a hand in her demise - something the Factory Girl producer vehemently denied months before his own May 2010 death.

Merkin claimed he exhibited “Jekyll and Hyde behavior” and often seemed “out of it.” Alex Merkin, who directed Murphy’s 2009 film Across the Hall recalls seeing red flags in the Two Days, Nine Lives director. However, in the HBO Max doc, those close to the Girl, Interrupted actress describe Monjack as a sinister presence in her life. While many seemed confused by the pairing, Murphy told OK Magazine in April 2009, eight months before she died, that “the easiest decision I ever made in my life was getting married.” The pair ended their romance in August 2006, shortly before she took up with Monjack. She was engaged twice, first to producer Jeff Kwatinetz for nearly five months in 2004 and again the following year, to Joe Macaluso, a production assistant on her 2004 film Little Black Book. “She wanted to marry him, and I said, ‘Honey, it’s not been long enough.’”īefore saying “I do,” Murphy had been involved in high profile romances with her 8 Mile costar Eminem and Ashton Kutcher, who starred with her in the 2003 comedy Just Married. “Like, who was this guy and what was happening?” the Hocus Pocus actress said in the doc. In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies
