Melanie Lynskey Recalls Her Spontaneous Wedding to Jason Ritter & Says It Happened Out of Panic
justjared.comMelanie Lynskey and Jason Ritter have been together for close to 10 years! The 44-year-old Candy and Yellowjackets actress and Jason, 42, tied the knot in 2020 after seven years of dating in what Melanie calls a spontaneous wedding.
While promoting Candy, Melanie, who plays Betty Gore in the new Hulu series, revealed just how their wedding happened. Click inside to read more… Just before leaving to go and film Yellowjackets, Melanie said that a friend had told her that Jason wouldn’t be allowed in Canada, where the show was filmed, unless they were married. “I got married cause someone was like, Jason, won’t get into Canada unless you’re married, which just wasn’t true,” she says. “I panicked.” Melanie‘s reaction to what her friend had told her was “‘We have a child.
What? I can’t leave for six months.’ So I was like, ‘We have to get married tomorrow.’” That’s exactly how it happened too. “We got married on our front porch of our little rental house in Atlanta.
A nice lady came and married us. We had two friends there,” she recalled. “[Singer] Ellie Ann and William Jackson Harper were the two friends.
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