Ryan met Dennis Quaid on the set of Innerspace and they quickly sparked a romance. According to MSN, they got married in 1991 and later welcomed a son and a daughter. Their marriage started to crumble and in 2000, Ryan decided to get a divorce from Quaid.
Around that same time, she met Russell Crowe on the set of Proof of Life. Ryan and Crowe started dating and the timeline of their relationship led people to think they were having an affair while she was still with Quaid. Ryan's relationship with Crowe changed Hollywood's view of the "squeaky-clean persona she'd cultivated from a decade of rom-com success," as InStyle noted.
The scandal took a huge toll on Ryan, who was 37 at the time. She told W Magazine back in October 2000, "I found myself in a hotel lobby in London a few months ago, thinking, all of a sudden, 'So this is what it feels like to be the Scarlet Woman.' Oh! I'm having that experience now!" (via E! News). Her relationship to Crowe ended in December 2000, according to InStyle.
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