Even after their split, Billy Crudup and Mary-Louise Parker opted, for the most part, to remain mum on the subject. However, if news reports at the time are anything to go by, Parker elected not to have Crudup present for the birth of their child, choosing instead for him to see their son later on, once she’d settled back into her home.
Nearly a decade later, however, she opened up about the emotional toll the affair scandal had taken on her, towards the end of her pregnancy. In one chapter of her 2015 memoir, “Dear Mr. You,” Parker recounted a particularly tense run-in she’d had with a taxi driver. He’d gotten lost, she’d begun cursing, and eventually she was ordered out of the cab and told, “I don’t want you anymore.” The choice of words proved to be a little too timely for the suddenly single and heavily pregnant Parker, however. “No one does … I am alone. Look, see? I am pregnant and alone. It hurts to even breathe,” she wrote.
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Parker added that the driver had been sympathetic once he realized that she was pregnant, and she ultimately felt guilty about the way she handled everything. That said, if anything could illustrate her mental state at the time, the story contained in the pages of “Dear Mr. You” would be it. Ever the fan of privacy, though, no mention was made of Crudup, Claire Danes, or the scandal itself.
