Dennis Quaid said he has no regrets about his ill-fated marriage to Meg Ryan over 20 years after the pair called it quits.
During an appearance on “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” Friday, the “Parent Trap” star was asked if fame put a strain on the pair’s relationship after they began dating in 1987.
“When I met Meg I was here as far as career thing and she was here and then it just went like that,” Quaid said, indicating with his hands how the “Top Gun” star’s popularity surged well above his own.
“I tried to be a big person and tell myself that didn’t bother me, but people are human,” he continued.
Quaid explained that the “When Harry Met Sally” star’s career “was ascending” when he went “into rehab” in the ’90s, drawing a slight wedge between them.
“Meg is really such a great, sweet person and really talented and deserved all her success,” he said of his ex-wife.
“I don’t regret anything about my marriage to Meg,” he added. “We got Jack Quaid out of it who is really going on to maybe eclipse both of us.”
The couple wed in 1991 and welcomed their son, Jack, a year later. However, they split nine years later amid alleged infidelity on both ends.
Dennis, 70, and Ryan, 62, were viewed as one of Hollywood’s power couples for years, making their June 2000 split even more shocking.
Around the same time, the actress was spotted getting cozy with “Proof of Life” co-star Russell Crowe.
However, during an appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 2006, Ryan insisted that Crowe wasn’t to blame for the end of their “very unhealthy marriage.”
“I was very sad that it came apart in the way it seemed to have. It was never about another man,” she told Winfrey. “It was just about what my and Dennis’ relationship couldn’t sustain.”
“I think once the tabloids get a hold of three celebrity names you’re just really in trouble … I didn’t leave my marriage for Russell Crowe,” she added. “I left my marriage.”
During an interview with InStyle a few years later, the former rom-com queen claimed that Dennis also cheated during their nine-year marriage.
“It was a great story. But what wasn’t in the story was the reality of my marriage for nine years,” Ryan told the magazine, per Honey.
“Dennis was not faithful to me for a long time, and that was very painful. I found out more about that once I was divorced.”
The “Reagan” actor later slammed the actress for continuing to “publicly rehash and rewrite the story” of their relationship.
While Ryan never remarried, she dated John Mellencamp on and off for nearly a decade before they split in 2019.
Dennis, for his part, married his fourth wife, Laura Savoie, in 2020.
He and his first wife, PJ Soules, split in 1983 after five years of marriage. After his marriage to Ryan, the actor wed Kimberly Buffington in 2004. The now-exes were together for 12 years before going their separate ways.
Dennis and Buffington share 16-year-old twin daughters.
