Michelle Williams is pregnant and engaged to Thomas Kail, the primary director of Fosse/Verdon. They likely fell for each other during production, while they were both married. Michelle’s marriage to Phil Elverum fell apart soon after filming ended. We have no idea when Kail’s marriage ended, because Michelle’s PR team seems to be working overtime to whitewash everything across the board. Michelle’s team has been doing set-ups with People Magazine for the past week or so – first it was the pregnancy announcement, complete with an exclusive photoshoot. Then they did a piece about her engagement ring, which is probably a pearl center stone (just like Emma Stone). Then Kail and Williams made their red carpet debut at the Golden Globes, so it’s time to put one big bow on all of this.
Michelle Williams has several reasons to look forward to 2020. The actress, 39, is fresh off her Golden Globe best actress in a mini-series win for Fosse/Verdon and will soon be expanding her family with fiancé and Hamilton director Thomas Kail.
“Michelle fell in love,” a source tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “She is happy and fulfilled and ready for another child.”
Williams and Kail, 42, worked together on the FX series Fosse/Verdon, in which the Tony Award winner directed the actress. The couple walked the Golden Globe Awards red carpet together where Williams kept her baby bump under wraps in a one-shoulder peach-colored Louis Vuitton gown. A source confirmed to PEOPLE in late December Williams was pregnant and engaged to Kail. Williams’ daughter with the late Heath Ledger, Matilda, 14, played matchmaker, the source added.
Her new romance comes more than a year after Williams married indie musician Phil Elverum during the summer of 2018. The two quietly separated in early 2019.
Thank the lord that People finally got around to mentioning poor Phil! But my question is… how can Michelle be in a “new romance” if she’s already pregnant enough to be showing? And how did Matilda set up her mom with Kail when Michelle and Kail were married to other people when they met? SO many questions, I guess we’ll never know! Props to Michelle’s team though, they’ve got it to the point where only gossip bloggers like me are grumbling about it. The official story isn’t being questioned or side-eyed at all by the public at large.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I wonder how can she play the “widow of Heath Ledger” card now. Or probably they will go for the finally in love angle.
“Michelle Williams finally in love! Never mind that she married someone else before!”
This is more PR games than she has played in years. She’s dripping in desperation for this not to be seen as the cheating, homewrecking, shady as hell situation it clearly was. But why is she freaking out? She’s never been America’s sweetheart. Even the whole “widow Ledger” routine pretty much ran its course. I’m kind of fascinated by her (their?) panic.
They may be panicking because shit will hit the fan once this guy goes through the divorce process while engaged and with a newborn from a mistress. Michelle better keep practicing her googly, sad, innocent eyes in the mirror
Back when she was dating or may be already married to her ex husband, she did an interview where her voice cracked while talking about Heath. I don’t think she’s going to allow this new guy to stop her from playing the widow card.
Wow! I mean, when people die the love you had for them doesn’t go away, you just learn to live with it. Many widows and widowers go on to marry other people whom they are happy with and love very much; but retain love for their deceased partner. And yes, I am aware that Michelle and Heath were broken up when he died. That doesn’t mean she wasn’t still in love with him. He clearly had a lot of issues. Leaving him may have been what was best for her and her daughter (or mutually splitting); but that doesn’t mean she didn’t still love him. Naomi Watts still talks about Heath with great love and no one burns her about it. And let’s not forget that Michelle has an eternal reminder of Heath in her daughter, and likely has to talk about him a fair bit with her daughter in a manner that empathises the positives about him.
Lol if word is true she got pregnant THE FIRST TIME they hooked up.
These two…..ever heard of protected sex? Condoms? THE MORNING AFTER PILL?
no excuses. glad the facade has fallen.
I bet she is fulfilled.😏
Does anyone know how she can have that shade of blonde if you shouldnt dye your hair while pregnant?
It’s bleach not dye isn’t it?
It’s fine to dye your hair while pregnant, per the NYU Hospital info my OB gave me seven months ago. Lots of old “knowledge” about what to do and not do in pregnancy is changing, thank god.
I don’t know. But with light hair like that’s she could be already grey and we don’t know
And?
I’m sorry, that hair color makes her look so washed out. Go a little darker FFS.
We just need to go back and read about her relationship with Phil, and replace his name with the new guy. It’s all the same quotes..
I bought some hair dye and it’s a little blonde but I really hope it doesn’t turn out like Michelle’s color
It won’t. Platinum blonde isn’t dye – you bleach all of the natural color out of your hair.
For someone who is supposedly in love, she doesn’t look too happy in any recent pics. She never looked happy in pics with her five-minute husband either.
To be honest she has perpetual grump face. I’ve never seen her happy. She looks sour all the time.
Do we have hard dates?
When she and husband (who was at the time reported to be cheating…..) split?
When the got pregnant?
When filming ended?
The last time he was seen with his wife?
When did he get a divorce?
Public at large here. 🙋♀️ Giving side-eye.
I read an interview she did years ago. And it was the most out of touch navel gazing nonsense I’ve ever read. It was a lot of poor me being rich and famous is hard. Ok then go work at a 7-11.
Link?
I recently watched Take This Waltz (as I think half the people who watched Marvelous Mrs. Maisel did. Luke Kirby…) and I can’t help but think about her character in that film in relation to this mess. An unfulfilled, almost child-like woman falls for the sexy artist neighbor and leaves her loving husband, only to find herself continuing to be unfulfilled in that relationship. *shrug*
I agree. This might be a little unfair because she was playing a character in that, not herself, but I can’t help but see Michelle in an unflattering light after that film. The way she played that character (and her desire to play her at all) kind of creeps me out because she’s so pitiful by choice. Cloyingly childish and the type of person who just can’t believe that their life is always such a mess, while never taking responsibility for being the person causing all the mess due to boredom, etc.
I think it shows what a great actress she is, the fact that I’m slightly revolted by her now. I still can’t decide if I hated that movie or not.
So glad someone else saw that movie! It was really good but very uncomfortable. It does reflect her “do what feels good now regardless of whom I hurt” choices.
Calling it: Monique Lhuillier is designing Michelle’s wedding dress.
It must be real because Monique commented on Busy Philips’ insta when she posted a pic of herself, Michelle and Tommy did after the Globes.
@SKF probably because its a one off thing with Naomi and didn’t make it her whole identity and why would it be she ended up having a long term relationship with someone else and had kids with him.