Guy Pearce has a rare confession about his ex-wife Kate Mestitz.
The 57-year-old actor spoke about the “greatest love” of his life with The guardian Saturday when the conversation turned to his ex-wife.
“My ex-wife, Kate [Mestitz]was the greatest love of my life,” Pearce said of the Australian psychologist, whom he was married to for 18 years before splitting in 2015.
“But I left her now, and the greatest love of my life is my child, Monte,” he added, referring to his son, whom he welcomed with his girlfriend Carice van Houten, 48 years old, in 2020.
Pearce also got candid about how he dealt with the breakup.
“I felt like I had ruined my marriage,” he said. “I don’t feel that way anymore, but at the time I was devastated.”
Pearce and Mestitz first met at university in 1980, when they were both enrolled at Geelong College in Australia. The couple then married in 1997.
Pearce announced the decision to split in January 2015, but revealed it wasn’t a bitter split.
“No one knows me like Kate, and we will always appreciate our mutual respect,” Pearce added. “We have both grown immensely through our relationship, but unfortunately the time has come to part ways.”
