Featured Image Credit: Sean Teegarden/Disneyland Resort via Getty Images
Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV, Hollywood, US News
Liv Bridge
Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV, Hollywood, US News
Sarah Michelle Gellar has lifted the lid on the 'simple secret' to her happy 23-year marriage with Freddie Prinze Jr.
The couple first met way back in the 90s, while on the set of the 1997 teen thriller I Know What You Did Last Summer.
In their early 20s, Gellar and Prinze went on to star alongside each other in movies in the early stages of their relationship, including the 1999 romcom, She's All That, followed by the 2002 comedy Scooby-Doo, and its sequel, Monsters Unleashed in 2004, after they tied the knot in 2002.
While enjoying more than two decades of happy marriage together, they also share two children, Charlotte, age 15, and their son, Rocky, 12.
Advert
So, it's fair to say they know the secret sauce to keeping their relationship happy and healthy.
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer star is due to appear in the upcoming revival of the show, which she discussed while appearing on an episode of Today with Jenna & Friends as well as her husband's role in the new I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel.
But co-hosts Jenna Bush Hager and Tiffany Haddish were both keen to know what the 'secret' is to the couple's long 23-year marriage.
The 48-year-old promptly replied: "Separate bathrooms. It's that simple."
The pair apparently agreed to use separate bathrooms years ago after Gellar cited having two loos in their home as a 'secret' to their marriage in 2017.
While on Harry Connick Jr's talk show, Harry, she said: "I feel like there are certain things that should just be kept your own and they never need to know. Also maybe, possibly a separate shopping credit card? Or if you're a guy, maybe a separate gaming card so I don't have to see how much video games cost."
The revelation comes as the pair seemed as happy as ever for their 22nd wedding anniversary in September last year - and after they both worked together again on the movie, Clerks III in 2022.
The couple also told PEOPLE in 2020 that their first date was a happy accident and that they had built up a friendship before dating seriously.
"We were friends for a very long time," Gellar said at the time. "We'd had many dinners before. And we were supposed to go with someone else, and the third person didn't make it out, and we decided to still go.... We were just two people at dinner catching up. We had a long car ride and a long dinner and things just happened."
Prinze added: "From our first date, I didn't go on dates with other girls, nor did I even want to pursue dates with other girls."
Although the couple have spent most of their adult lives in the spotlight, they share similar values when it comes to their kids.
Neither Rocky nor Charlotte will be allowed to even try their hand at acting professionally until they graduate high school, Gellar told The Hollywood Reporter.