After meeting Jackson in 2006, the German actress agreed to drinks but not dinner, but he made the reservation anyway.
“I felt really bad because he looked so enthusiastic and had a clean shirt on,” Krueger recalled on “Conan” in 2013. “And I was like, ‘Okay, okay. Let’s go.'”
What started as a reluctant dinner turned into a decade-long relationship, with the couple splitting their time between his hometown of Vancouver, her beloved Paris, New York, and Los Angeles.
Kruger, who was married to Guillaume Canet for five years, told Glamor magazine in 2011 that she believed in a “commitment made in my heart” when it came to marriage. Years later, Jackson told the magazine, “I don’t feel any kind of commitment to Diane because she didn’t stand in front of a priest,” but she didn’t rule out the possibility of them exchanging vows someday.
However, the couple split in 2016 after rumors spread that Krueger was in love with Norman Reedus, her co-star in the 2015 film Sky. She and The Walking Dead star are still together and welcomed daughter Nova Tennessee in November 2018.
However, there were no hard feelings, as Jackson congratulated Kruger when she was honored at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, writing on Instagram that he was “so happy” for her.
