After five years of marriage and 16 years as a couple, Game of Thrones star Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet call it quits.
According to CNN, Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet met at a jazz club in 2005, years before Momoa would become famous for playing Khal Drogo on Game of Thrones. To hear Momoa tell it, he’d been smitten with Bonet ever since he saw her as Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show. “Ever since I was like, 8 years old and I saw her on the TV, I was like, ‘Mommy, I want that one,'” Momoa told James Corden on The Late Late Show in 2017. “I’m like, ‘I’m going to stalk you for the rest of my life and I’m going to get you.'”
The pair had two children together, daughter Lola and son Nakoa-Wolf. Momoa also helped raise Zoë Kravitz, Bonet’s daughter from her previous marriage to singer Lenny Kravitz, with whom Momoa also grew close.
It seemed like a successful Hollywood marriage, but the other day, Momoa and Bonet announced in a joint statement that they were parting ways:
"We have all felt the squeeze and changes of these transformational times… A revolution is unfolding ~and our family is of no exception… feeling and growing from the seismic shifts occurring. And so~ We share our Family news~ That we are parting ways in marriage.We share this not because we think it’s newsworthy ~ But so that~ as we go about our lives we may do so with dignity and honesty. The love between us carries on, evolving in ways it wishes to be known and lived. We free each other ~to be who we are learning to become…Our devotion unwaveringto this sacred life& our ChildrenTeaching our ChildrenWhat’s possible ~Living the PrayerMay Love Prevail"
At least it sounds like the split is amicable.
Although Bonet has appeared on shows like Ray Donovan and Girls, she hasn’t been acting much in recent years. Momoa, on the other hand, is a rising star, with recent roles in Dune and as Aquaman in the DC Extended Universe. Zoë Kravitz has also been killing it; she’ll be playing Catwoman in The Batman, which comes out in March.
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