Christopher Guest and Jamie Lee Curtis.Photo: Michael Buckner/Variety/REX/Shutterstock
With over four decades in Hollywood,Jamie Lee Curtisstill feels most at home wherever her husband is.
Featured on the cover ofAARP The Magazine’s August/September 2021 issue, theHalloweenstar says it’s her husband, writer/directorChristopher Guest(Best in Show), who keeps her grounded.
“I feel safe when I drive up and see that [he is] home,” Curtis, 62,tells the publication. “That’s the long marriage.”
“It’s the safety of knowing his car is in the garage, that I’m not alone,” she adds.
In December, Curtis and Guest, a screenwriter,celebrated 36 years of marriage. Curtis, who rarely shares photos of her husband on Instagram, commemorated the milestone with a sweet tribute to Guest.
“One of the longest relationships I’ve had seeking comfort and contact and connection is with Chris,” she wrote in the caption of a black and white photo of them holding hands. “Today marks the 36th anniversary of our wedding.”
“My hand in his. Then and now. Connected through our children and family and friends it became the links in our human emotional chain that have seen each of us through triumph and tragedy,” she added.
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Curtis previously recalled the moment she knew she was going to marry Guest when she came across his picture in a 1984 issue ofRolling Stonearound the release ofThis Is Spinal Tap.
“I looked at the man on the right, wearing a plaid shirt and a waggish smirk. I’d never seen him before, but I pointed at him. ‘I’m going to marry that man,’ I said to my friend,” she wrote in anessayforOprah Winfrey’sO magazinein 2004.
source: people.com
