The Crown star Claire Foy has announced her separation from husband Stephen Campbell Moore, months after he underwent crucial surgery to remove a brain tumour.
The actress, 33, best known for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in the Netflix Royal drama, confirmed her four-year marriage to Campbell Moore, 38, is over in a statement released on Thursday evening.
Speaking to The Sun, Foy revealed the couple, who originally met while working on 2011 film Season Of The Witch, parted ways long before the news was made public.
All over: The Crown star Claire Foy has announced her separation from husband Stephen Campbell Moore, months after he underwent crucial surgery to remove a brain tumour (the couple are pictured in April 2016)
‘We have separated and have been for some time,’ she said. ‘We do however continue as great friends with the utmost respect for one another.’
A separate source claimed the couple are desperate to keep the split amicable for the sake of their daughter, two-year old Ivy Rose.
‘After seven years together this came as a real shock to many of their friends, but they’re lovely people and are determined to keep everything civilized,’ the insider claimed.
Surgery: The news comes just months after The History Boys star Campbell Moore had a life-saving operation to remove a brain tumour – his second in five-years in July 2017 (pictured in June 2013)
‘Obviously it has been a very sad period for both of them, and for their wider families. But they are wonderful parents, intelligent and both successful in their own right.’
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The news comes just months after The History Boys star Campbell Moore had a life-saving operation to remove a brain tumour – his second in five-years in July 2017.
Popular: Foy is best known for her role as Queen Elizabeth in the Netflix Royal drama The Crown
‘I have quite a thick skin in lots of ways,’ he told the Telegraph two months after surgery. ‘ Even the first time I had the operation, it almost bounced off me.
‘They told me that it was a lot more dangerous this time, that there were a lot more potential problems. And then suddenly I was like: ‘Oh God, this is really killing me.”‘
Campbell-Moore originally discovered he had a walnut-sized tumour his pituitary gland in 2012 after an overwhelming bout of anxiety led to the actor suffering stage fright while preparing for an Arthur Miller play, prompting doctors to suggest he go for a brain scan.
Amicable: Speaking to The Sun , Foy revealed the couple, who originally met while working on 2011 film Season Of The Witch, parted ways long before the news was made public (pictured in May 2016)
His second op took place while Foy was filming the second series of The Crown with co-star and screen husband Matt Smith.
‘You realize you’re not the most important person in that process, and everybody who loves you goes through far worse,’ he told The Sun in January.
‘There are certain things that you make sure you’ve done before you go into surgery. You write a letter. But it’s all very much on the off chance that something did go wrong, because every part of you is saying that nothing will. Waking up and being told the operation had gone well was understandably a huge relief.’
Previously: Foy was recently seen without her wedding ring as she made a glamorous appearance at the 68th annual Berlin Film Festival premiere of her latest movie, Unsane
Foy was recently seen without her wedding ring as she made a glamorous appearance at the 68th annual Berlin Film Festival premiere of her latest movie, Unsane.
Turning heads in a plunging black gown from Valentino, she was in high spirits as she joined co-star Joshua Leonard and the film’s celebrated director Steven Soderbergh on the red carpet.
Shot largely on an iPhone, the film represents a departure from the slick production she’s used to on The Crown, but Foy recently admitted she’s at something of a personal and professional crossroads.
Reflecting on the future, she told Town & Country: ‘At this juncture I think it will find me. I think it will be a good time to sit down and take stock of what I want to do, which is possibly not acting, or where I want to go—all of those things you don’t really have time to think about when you’re working.
‘I’ll probably have to consider all of that at some point, but not quite yet.’