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Revisiting Billy Crudup, Claire Danes and Mary-Louise Parker's Love Triangle

From heartbreak to moving on, explore Billy Crudup's love triangle with Mary-Louise Parker and Claire Danes and their journey since

“I just want to make an argument for not including anything about the Mary-Louise Parker situation,” he wrote to New York Times reporter Jesse Green via email in an October 2004 profile for the outlet. Mary Louise Parker and Billy Crudup’s tumultuous split made headlines when the Almost Famous actor left the Weeds alum for Claire Danes. Danes went on to note that “as a public person, you’re serving a certain function, and you’re a canvas for people to project their own hopes and fears onto, so you do have to perform a kind of mental trick and distance yourself from it.” She continued, “But there are times of weakness in which you wonder if what they wrote is relevant to you or representative of you.”

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