Dick Van Dyke is looking back in the criticism he received about marrying someone half his age.
Thirteen years later, the Mary Poppins The actor, now 99, insists that the couple is still happy with the decision.
“We get along very well,” Van Dyke told People magazine this Sunday in the collection of vandy country from the couple in Malibu, California.
“Everyone said it would not work,” he recalled, to which Silver, now 53, doubled his statement.
“We care so much about each other”, explaining that it is “mysterious how good [the marriage] works.”
Silver joked saying that “people of the same age do not last.”
The Dick Van Dyke show Star also remembered having met his now wife for the first time at the 2006 SAG Awards.
“I never said hello to a strange girl in my life,” he confessed. “I was too scared. But I was in a show in the backstage and she passed, and for some reason, I jumped and said: ‘Hello, I’m Dick’. There is something in it [that] I am and I was right. “
After his initial meeting, Van Dyke hired Silver as a makeup artist for later projects, but they didn’t start leaving until years later.
The couple also agreed that they empowered each other, with silver sharing that Van Dyke “made me feel that I can do anything.”
The couple married in 2012 when the comedian was 86 years old and his girlfriend was 40 years old.
Van Dyke previously married Margie Willett from 1948 to 1984, during which they welcomed four children, including Christian, 74, Barry, 73, Stacy, 69, and Carrie Beth, 63.
He also had a long -term relationship with Michelle Triola Marvin, with whom he lived from 1976 until his death in 2009.
