Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum and actor Michelle Williams have separated less than one year after they were secretly married, The Associated Press, The Hollywood Reporter, People, and E! News report. According to THR and People, Elverum and Williams’ split was amicable.
Michelle Williams revealed her marriage to Phil Elverum in a July 2018 interview with Vanity Fair. The secret ceremony took place in the Adirondacks and was attended by a small group of friends, as well as Williams’ daughter Matilda and Elverum’s daughter. In the interview, Williams called their relationship “very sacred and very special.”
“Ultimately the way he loves me is the way I want to live my life on the whole,” Williams told VF. “I work to be free inside of the moment. I parent to let Matilda feel free to be herself, and I am finally loved by someone who makes me feel free.”
Phil Elverum’s first wife, artist and musician Geneviève Castrée, died in 2016 of pancreatic cancer. Elverum’s last two Mount Eerie studio albums—2017’s A Crow Looked at Me and 2018’s Now Only—were written in the wake of her death.
