Michelle Williams Secretly Wed Phil Elverum, and It's Just the Sweetest

By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | July 26, 2018 |

By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | July 26, 2018 |

There’s not much we can add to this beyond what is contained within the Vanity Fair profile, except to say that two very lovely people who have dealt with insurmountable tragedies in their lives have met, fallen in love, and gotten married.

By the time you read this, she and her partner, singer-songwriter Phil Elverum, whom she met through a mutual friend, will have been married in a secret ceremony in the Adirondacks, witnessed by only a handful of friends and their two daughters. Her new husband, an indie musician who records and performs under the name Mount Eerie (and, before that, the Microphones), also lost a partner in tragic circumstances while parenting a small child. His late wife, illustrator and musician Geneviève Castrée, was diagnosed with inoperable stage-4 pancreatic cancer in 2015, four months after the birth of their daughter, and the two very private artists went public with a GoFundMe page to help defray medical costs. Castrée died 13 months later, in July 2016, leaving Elverum with an 18-month-old daughter … In July, he packed up his home in Anacortes, Washington, and drove across the country to live with her and their daughters in Brooklyn.

Here’s the fella she wed.

And if you’re wondering, yes: They’re incredibly happy together.

“I never gave up on love,” she later tells me, saying that she has spent the 10 years since Ledger’s death looking for the kind of “radical acceptance” she felt from him. “I always say to Matilda, ‘Your dad loved me before anybody thought I was talented, or pretty, or had nice clothes.’ ” I can hear her voice crack. She sometimes can’t believe that she’s found this kind of love, at last. “Obviously I’ve never once in my life talked about a relationship,” she says, “but Phil isn’t anyone else. And that’s worth something. Ultimately the way he loves me is the way I want to live my life on the whole. I work to be free inside of the moment. I parent to let Matilda feel free to be herself, and I am finally loved by someone who makes me feel free.”

Fucking allergies, man.

Source: Vanity Fair; Image via Getty