Faris is framing this as a story of resilience—emphasizing how she channeled her pain into creative work and community-building. Her podcast, which started as a humble side project during the darkest chapter of her life, became her emotional anchor. Now she's expressing gratitude for fan recognition and career opportunities, positioning herself as someone who emerged stronger from public scrutiny.
But let's not forget what Faris actually said about WHY her marriage imploded: competitiveness between two actors who couldn't drop their egos long enough to be vulnerable with each other. This isn't just a sad divorce story—it's the same Hollywood relationship dysfunction we see play out repeatedly. Both she and Pratt have remarried, but this interview is giving 'closure-seeking' energy eight years too late.
The couple married in 2009, welcomed son Jack in 2012 (now 13), and finalized their divorce in 2018. Faris told Variety: 'I was feeling sad,' crediting her podcast with getting her through. In a 2021 episode with Gwyneth Paltrow on 'Anna Faris Is Unqualified,' she admitted her marriages to actor husbands failed because they didn't eliminate 'competitiveness' or reveal vulnerability.
Faris has always been refreshingly candid, but even she knows some wounds take longer to explain than others. Eight years later, she's finally ready to talk—and the receipts prove it was never about fame, just survival.
Anna Faris is finally opening up about the emotional wreckage left behind when her marriage to Chris Pratt crumbled in 2018—and get this, she's crediting a podcast with saving her sanity during the whole mess. The "Scary Movie" star sat down for a Variety profile published Saturday and got surprisingly real about diving headfirst into work after the split from the Marvel actor who would later marry Katherine Schwarzenegger. "I was feeling sad," Faris, 49, admitted in the interview.
"I'm lucky that at that time I had my podcast." We're talking about "Anna Faris Is Unqualified," which she launched during her darkest days with zero expectations of it going anywhere. The actress confessed she originally wanted "like four people to listen and to build my own secret community"—an avenue outside Hollywood where she could actually connect with humans who weren't sizing up her box office numbers. Here's the thing though: despite having "a constant desire to connect with people," Faris admitted she "didn't disclose a lot on the podcast." But that wasn't because she was hiding—it was about knowing the option existed.
"It made me think, 'I know I could be happy if I'm writing because I've always loved that, and maybe that's an avenue to make money,'" she explained. During this period, Faris was apparently "thinking of a version of retirement," which tells you exactly how bleak things looked behind the scenes. But wait—there's more context from earlier that makes this current interview hit different.
Back in 2021, during an episode of her podcast with guest Gwyneth Paltrow, Faris got brutally honest about what actually killed her marriage to Pratt. "My past two husbands were actors," she shared at the time. "We didn't do a great job of eliminating competitiveness." She added: "Or at least I didn't, being a proud person, and not wanting to reveal vulnerability." That's the real tea—not just that they split, but that their inability to drop the Hollywood ego game was the killing blow.
Now fast forward to present day, and Faris sounds genuinely grateful. "When people see me, they usually smile and say, 'Oh, I love The House Bunny' or 'Oh, I love Scary Movie' or 'Mom helped me through that hard time,'" she told Variety. "I'm just overwhelmed with gratitude." She even noted that "the opportunities are more bountiful than they've ever been!" After weathering 26 years in the spotlight and a high-profile divorce that tabloids dissected for months, Faris has clearly made peace with her trajectory—even if she'd rather not dwell on the chaos that got her here.
"But, f–k the scrutiny," she remarked. Preach, honestly. Both stars have since rebuilt their lives: Pratt married Katherine Schwarzenegger in 2019 and they share three kids—Lyla, 5, Eloise, 4, and Ford, 1.
Faris tied the knot with Michael Barrett in 2021. Eight years after signing divorce papers, this might be Faris's most candid acknowledgment that she went through something genuinely painful—and survived it on her own terms.
