Kevin Costner’s Ups and Downs Through the Years: Divorces, Oscar and Emmy Wins and More
usmagazine.comTaking the good with the bad. Kevin Costner has garnered critical acclaim as both an actor and a director, but he’s faced his fair share of personal hardships.During a July 1995 interview with the Seattle Times, the Postman star opened up about his 1994 divorce from Cindy Silva after 16 years of marriage.
At the time, his film Waterworld — which he coproduced and starred in — had just hit theaters and failed to recoup its massive budget.“This has been the hardest year of my life.
I am no longer with Cindy, my partner since childhood,” Costner told the outlet at the time. “And I was working on this very tough picture.
A series of events conspired to happen at the same time. I know it hurt some people that I had failed in my marriage. And the marriage was my own failure.”The California native and Silva exchanged vows in 1978 and welcomed three children during their marriage: daughters Annie and Lily, born in 1984 and 1986, respectively, and son Joe, born in 1988.
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