Guy Pearce has a rare confession about his ex-wife Kate Mestitz.
The 57-year-old actor spoke of the “greatest love” of his life with the guardian Saturday when the conversation turned to his ex-wife.
“My ex-wife, Kate [Mestitz]”He was the greatest love of my life,” Pearce said of the Australian psychologist, to whom he was married for 18 years before they broke up in 2015.
“But I already left her and the greatest love of my life is my son, Monte,” he added, referring to his son, whom he welcomed with his girlfriend Carice van Houten, 48, in 2020.
Pearce was also candid about how he dealt with the breakup.
“I felt like I had ruined my marriage,” she explained. “I don’t feel that way anymore, but at the time I was devastated.”
Pearce and Mestitz met during college days 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 was not a bitter breakup.
“No one knows me like Kate and we will always be grateful for our mutual respect for each other,” Pearce added. “We have both grown enormously through our relationship, but sadly the time has come for us to part ways.”
