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In May 2022, Busy Philipps made a surprising announcement on her podcast, “Busy Philipps is Doing Her Best.” She and husband Marc Silverstein had separated — more than a year earlier. “Marc and I talked about it, and when we first separated, we couldn’t even think about putting one of those statements out — it made us sick, both of us, truly ill,” Philipps said, explaining why she’d waited so long to share the news.
As for how they were handling their shared parental responsibilities, Philipps explained they’d agreed to try “nesting,” in which their kids live in the family home, with each parent taking turns living there with them. In their case, due to COVID-19 and other factors, there were occasions when their rotations in the home would overlap, at times resulting in she and Silverstein cohabitating. “Obviously, it’s not for everyone,” Philipps admitted. “There’s a lot of complication and hardship within the arrangement sometimes for the two of us.”
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Of course, anyone who was paying attention couldn’t have been that surprised, as Philipps has spoken candidly about her marital difficulties over the years. “Marriage is always hard, but especially when you have kids … You’re going to go through periods when you’re not into it, but there always has to be one person willing to fight,” she told Parents in 2018. “I went to Marc several times and said, ‘I cannot do this anymore. Something has to change, and it’s you.'”
