Making a change. Dakota Johnson said that parents Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith‘s 1996 divorce likely influenced her friendship with Chris Martin‘s ex Gwyneth Paltrow.“Maybe I think about relationships like that differently because I grew up in my family,” the Cha Cha Real Smooth actress, 32, told Vanity Fair in a feature published on Tuesday, June 28.Don, now 72, was married to Griffith, now 64, briefly in 1976 and again in 1989.
The Miami Vice actor separated from the Working Girl star in 1994 before reconciling only to separate again in 1995. Their divorce was finalized in 1996, and Griffith went on to marry Antonio Banderas later that year (they divorced in 2017).Though Dakota is the former couple’s only child together, she has half-siblings on both sides of her family.
Griffith gave birth to son Alexander, 36, with ex-husband Steven Bauer. She also welcomed daughter Stella, 26, with Banderas.
Don, meanwhile, shares son Jesse Johnson, 39, with ex Patti D’Arbanville. He welcomed kids Grace, 22, Jasper, 20, and Deacon, 16, with Kelley Phleger, who he has been married to since 1999.“We were all cool [with each other].
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