Keifer Sutherland and Jason Patrick are friends again after Julia Roberts’ love triangle

“Miss Roberts Regrets” The title in People magazine was – In the early 90s, it was the first real Hollywood scandal of the decade.

It was a love triangle involving newly formed megastar Julia, her famous fiancé and her best friend. It was all so unbelievable, so juicy, so the potential career ended that the trio went on for 30 years, without ever really talking.

But since when did two out of three bring it up – where else? – A podcast

, Let’s revisit a time when Hollywood still became a movie star, when the events of the film’s release took place, when we glammed and gossiped for forgiveness.

So here we go back to 1991: 23-year-old Julia Roberts, a hooker with a heart of gold in “Pretty Woman”, became the eclipse of her actor brother Eric, according to the Hollywood cliche, and 24-year-old was. -Kald Kiefer Sutherland

Julia and Kiefer were the first Gen-X Hollywood power couples, even older than Johnny and Winona. He chaired Gwyneth and Brad, Reese and Ryan, Ethan and Uma. Julia was tall, Kiefer short so; He smiled, he became serious; Her image was sunshine and apple pie, her danger and despair. The way Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw did it makes sense that he is a yin to his yang. Julia Roberts could do no wrong.

At a soundstage at Fox made to look like a garden in the 20th century, the wedding itself was a literal Hollywood production. (Why not an actual garden? Who knows? All poeticly, Artifice has teased the real thing here.)

On this million-dollar wedding day on June 14, 1991, Julia Roberts fed her groom at the altar and flew to Ireland with her best friend, Jason Patrick, and misbehaved with fellow passengers.

“Practically love” in the air, the London Daily Mail said.

Nobody saw it coming. It was a worldwide scam, the bigger it would become Brangelina. Booze, drugs, stripper, infidelity – all were whispered, none confirmed. People magazine had Roberts cheat on Roberts with the stripper, who was unavailable for comment as she underwent breast implant surgery.

Julia Roberts with Kiefer Sutherland.
Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland were to marry at 20th Century Fox at a soundstage.
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After the stripper’s story broke, the magazine checked Roberts for five days at Cedars-Sinai; Sutherland is moving out of his home and playing Holi at a $ 150-a-week motel, fielding a call from Michelle Pfeiffer; Roberts and Sutherland were fighting over whether Patrick should attend their wedding; Custom cakes for the wedding, a replica of a 15-pound turkey (a compromise after Roberts vetoed his plan to serve a Thanksgiving dinner at his reception), eaten instead of caterers; Roberts dumped Sutherland by phone, via a third party; And it is sad that most of the 1990s overall, the malicious Chinese tattoo Sutherland paid tribute to Roberts.

Good stuff, isn’t it?

Yet in 2011, when Patric was slowly asked about it by New York magazine, he said, “People do. No. Care. About it.”

Oh yes, we do.

Actor Michael Rosenbaum understands this, which is why he brought it up when he included Sutherland and Patrick in his podcast this week. After 20 years of not talking, the two became friends again around 2009, and also did a play.

Proud Dad: Kiefer Sutherland shows baby photos of her new daughter to Beast co-star Jason Patrick at yesterday's Variety Club lunch in a Canadian room in Royal New York.
Kiefer Sutherland shows baby pictures of her daughter Sarah to Jason Patrick.
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As for the gossip, Patrick said: “The press, and being invited to the wedding, and taking off with the bride – it’s all bull-tee.”

Sutherland: “All the bulls-t.”

They would not discuss the specifics, except that it was a case of “bad timing”. “You fall in love, you fall in love,” Kiefer says. “There’s nothing that you can do about it. He’s an extraordinary person, and he is also, and, you know, what the time is, and everybody moves on from that.”

Jason Patrick and Julia Roberts during the premiere
Jason Patrick and Julia Roberts at the premiere of “Rush”.
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Sutherland has also stated that it was not Roberts as much as he grieved Patric; At the time, he said that his life was like a country song: “I lost my pick-up and my dog ​​and my best friend, and I miss my best friend.”

Roberts herself never commented, and she never really lost the goodwill of the public – an amazing feat, given how often women are cast as jezebels who steal their men or who lose them Are worth And since it all went down before the internet, all three players maintained their dignity, even Patrick and Roberts broke up, and then quickly and briefly married Lyle Lovett.

“When I saw him again,” Patrick said of his reunion with Sutherland, “it was more than a laugh and a toast. They both [Kiefer and Julia] Later married, a couple of times. . . And what happened after my friend and Kiefer, 35 years old. “

To which Sutherland jokes, “Never got the truck back.”

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