Joanne Woodward's 50 Year Marriage to Paul Newman Was Harder Than You Thought

For fifty years they were sold as Hollywood's perfect couple — the marriage that survived where everyone else's failed. But the truth Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman worked hard to keep private was rougher than the fairy tale ever let on.

It began as an affair. When Paul Newman met Joanne Woodward, he was already married to Jackie Witte with three young children — and he reportedly waited nearly five years, until after his youngest child with Witte was born, before he finally left. The romance that Hollywood later called a love story started as the thing that broke a first family apart.

Then came the cost Joanne paid herself. She won an Oscar before Paul was even a movie star, and she stepped back from her own career to raise six children between two marriages and follow his rise. Behind the glamour were Newman's heavy drinking, a brief separation, long-running affair rumors, and a private grief the public never saw.

So what really held Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman together for fifty years — and what did it cost her to stay? We break down the marriage behind the myth: how it began, what nearly ended it, and the woman who held the whole family together.

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