Vanessa Williams revealed that she quietly ended her six-year marriage to businessman Jim Skrip in 2021. The 61-year-old actress spoke out about her divorce on Wednesday.
“I do what I love and I’m in love with life,” Williams told People. “I’m not in love with just one person, I’m in love with everyone.”
The “Desperate Housewives” actress met her husband in 2012 on a Nile River cruise in Egypt, where they had a “three-hour first date.”
“I wasn’t looking for anything. I had been single for a number of years and had been divorced for 10 years at the time,” the star of the upcoming West End musical “The Devil Wears Prada” told Madame Noire in 2015. “I found a guy from my mother’s hometown in Buffalo, New York, and I started a conversation.”
The couple tied the knot in Buffalo in 2015, where Williams paid homage to the place where they met by wearing a “very silky, streamlined” skirt and top combination.
“It was magnificent,” Williams, the first black woman to be crowned Miss America in 1984, told People. “I felt like an Egyptian goddess, and that was exactly the theme I was going for.”
The “Ugly Betty” actress was married to film producer Ramon Hervey II from 1987 to 1997; they had three children, Devin, Jillian and Melanie. In 1999, Williams married actor and former NBA player Rick Fox. The couple had one daughter, Sasha Gabriella, and announced their divorce in 2004.
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