Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor Don't Take a Day 'for Granted' After Reconciling: 'You Know It Could Go Away'

Ben Stiller knows his marriage to Christine Taylor is special.

During an appearance on The View Thursday, Jan. 16, the Severance director, 59, recalled how he and his wife, 53, separated in 2017 but were able to strengthen their bond when they rekindled their relationship several years later during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I don’t know how it happened other than we both wanted it,” Stiller said when asked how he and Taylor fell back in love when most couples who separate don’t.

He continued, noting that with any relationship, especially one as long as their 25-year marriage, “You have to work at it.”

“Now, every day that we’re together, we do not take for granted. At least, I know I don’t, because you know it could go away and that to me is the gift for our relationship is that we have that every day, and I really am so happy that we’re together.”

The couple, who have starred in several movies together throughout the years, tied the knot in 2000 and share two kids, daughter Ella, 22, and son Quinlin, 19.

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As the interview went on, the Severance executive producer recalled how “when COVID happened,” everything changed after his family “all got a house together.”

“I dunno. I’m just grateful,” Stiller said. “I don’t have any great relationship advice other than I’m so grateful that we’re back together, and I think now — I think sometimes people shouldn’t get back together — sometimes it’s not the right thing. For us it was the right thing.”

Stiller's sentiments echoed those he made in a wide-ranging interview published by the New York Times on Jan. 11.

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"When we separated, it was just having space to see what our relationship was, what my life felt like when we weren’t in that relationship, how much I loved our family unit," the Tropic Thunder actor explained to the paper. "It was like three or four years that we weren’t together but we always were connected. In my mind, I never didn’t want us to be together."

He added that The Brady Bunch Movie actress could have felt differently, but he would let her tell her own story.

"I don’t know where Christine was, you’d have to ask her, but COVID put us all together in the same house."

Taylor opened up about their split in March 2023, saying on The Drew Barrymore Show that "Family was always a priority.”

“But I think Ben and I both started to grow in different directions," the Craft alum said. "And when we made the decision to separate, it was not something we wanted to talk publicly about or took lightly."

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Taylor also said that when she and Stiller separated, they "were at this impasse of, 'Let's figure this out — what's best at this chapter in our lives?' "

"I think we have these growth spurts, even as adults. And we needed time to figure that out," she said.

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