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Kevin Smith credits ‘Chasing Amy’ muse, ex Joey Lauren Adams, for his marriage that’s lasted 25 years: “I became the person that I became for the rest of my life because of that relationship.”

Kevin Smith credits 'Chasing Amy' star Joey Lauren Adams, whom he dated in the mid '90s, for his long-lasting marriage to wife Jennifer Schwalbach Smith in the documentary 'Chasing Chasing Amy'.

The pair met while making Smith's 1995 film Mallrats, which was followed by 1997's Chasing Amy, in which Adams starred in the lead role opposite Ben Affleck. (Adams and Affleck later appeared as their respective Amy characters, Alyssa Jones and Holden McNeil, in 2019's Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.) While their relationship was short-lived — Chasing Amy premiered in April 1997, and the two had split by that July — the writer-director says it was formative in his life.

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