Gossip Cop has noticed the seemingly unending rumors in the tabloids and decided to investigate why these rumors have such longevity.
A Fated Meeting
Toth and Witherspoon first met in 2010, shortly after Witherspoon ended her brief relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal. In an interview with Elle, Witherspoon revealed that the two of them met at a friend’s house party.
Toth saved his future wife from the advances of a terribly drunk man who was hitting on her. “It happened out of the blue,” Witherspoon explained.
“This really drunk guy was hitting on me, making such an idiot of himself, yelling at me. He was like, [slurring, scowling, pointing finger in her face] ‘You don’t know me.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I know. I don’t know you!’ Jim came over and said, ‘Please excuse my friend. He’s just broken up with someone.’”
The encounter left a very good impression on the Big Little Lies actress, who went on to say, “Jim was a really good friend, pulling him out of that situation. That’s just kind of who he is, a really good person.”
The attraction was instant and the two soon began dating in earnest. A little less than a year after the two began seeing each other, Toth popped the question and Witherspoon happily accepted, despite previously believing she’d never get married again.
“Jim said, ‘I’m gonna show you every day what a good partner is, what a good person is. I’m going to take care of you. I’m gonna do this so much that you’re gonna get used to it.’ I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’ I’ve never had anybody like that in my life.”
Reese Witherspoon, Jim Toth Begin Their Lives Together
The very next year, after they exchanged vows, Witherspoon and Toth welcomed their first child together, a son they named Tennessee. The now-7-year-old boy is Witherspoon’s third child, with the actress having had her daughter, Ava, and older son, Deacon, with her ex-husband Ryan Phillippe.
Although Jim Toth and Reese Witherspoon seem like they have an almost fairy-tale love story, the tabloids constantly harp on how unstable and on the verge of collapse the pair’s marriage is.
Any change, no matter how big or how small, in either Witherspoon or Toth’s life results in breathless speculation from the supermarket gossip magazine rack that the two are headed for a divorce. These rumors have only gotten nastier since much of the country has gone into lockdown due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In quarantine, the spouses’ marriage has apparently suffered greatly.
Witherspoon, Toth Quarantining Separately?
In April, NW insisted that the spouses were quarantining separately, which suspicious insiders believed this separation would become permanent. “Reese can gush as much as she wants about her ‘supportive’ husband, but they barely speak two words to each other these days,” a supposed pal told the magazine.
Tensions between the two had gotten so bad that Witherspoon was even considering getting a divorce. “She and Jim might talk themselves out of a divorce every time because of money, but she’s at the point where that doesn’t matter anymore. She wants someone to come home to, and Jim’s not it,” the source confided.
Gossip Cop didn’t believe this bogus tale for a single second. First of all, Witherspoon revealed that she and her family were quarantining together during her appearance on Miley Cyrus’ Instagram show, where she specifically mentioned her husband. Clearly this tabloid ran this story with faulty information.
In Touch later ran a two-page spread claiming the Morning Show star was living in a “quarantine Hell” and divorcing her husband of nearly 12 years. “Reese and Jim have always had their issues, but things are amplified now that they’re both working from home.
There are even rumors they’re headed for a divorce,” a insider for the magazine said. Like all the other rumors about the spouses having a difficult time during their quarantine, Gossip Cop found this story to be false. In an interview in the June 2020 issue of Candis magazine, Witherspoon said of her husband, “We have the best time together.
We find humor in everything,” adding, that they “have that lovely easy relationship – you know how you get that sort of great feeling when it’s all working out.” Obviously we trust the actress to speak for herself over the ramblings of some anonymous “insider.”
