The Angels in America actress had previously touched on their relationship and breakup in her 2015 memoir, Dear Mr. You, which was written as a series of letters to men in her life. One letter was written to a cabdriver who asked her to leave his taxi after Mary-Louise lost her temper with him in the wake of her breakup.
“I am alone,” she wrote. “Look, see? I am pregnant and alone. It hurts to even breathe. I’m trying to get through it but I’m by myself every night and every morning and no one, nothing helps.”
As for Billy, he briefly addressed the breakup in 2004, although he noted he was hesitant to do so in the first place.
“First and foremost it is personal, painful and involves an infant,” he told The New York Times in an email published as part of a 2004 profile on him, “and does not deserve to be exploited to sate the appetites of circulation counters and bored readers.”
“I have never indulged our society’s misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work,” Billy continued, “so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy. Each published report is based only on the trade of suffering.”
