A few months before her separation from her husband Warren Cash, Jessica Alba said she and Warren “became roommates.”
Alba, 43, opened up about her marriage in a frank conversation with podcaster Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt in April 2024.
“Everything is rosy for 2 and a half years, but after that you become roommates,” Alba revealed on Schwarzenegger’s “BDA Baby” podcast. “And it’s just that you’re roommates.” You’re just going with the flow. It’s responsibility. A lot of it is about checking boxes.
TMZ reported on Wednesday (January 8) that Alba and Warren, 45, recently separated and are prepare to file for divorce. Us every week has contacted their representatives for comment.
The pair met on the set of Fantastic Four in 2004, where Alba was the leading lady and Warren a production assistant. They married four years later.
During their 2008 vows, Alba was nine months pregnant with their daughter Honor, now 16. The couple then welcomed daughter Haven, 13, and son Hayes, 6.
When Schwarzenegger Pratt, 35, asked how Alba managed to balance her heavy responsibilities — and making sure “your husband feels taken care of” — Alba grimaced.
“If you’ve figured it out in your relationship, let me know,” she joked, adding, “You know, I think (Warren) will probably get the short end of the stick. … It’s tough .It’s impossible.
Alba said she and Warren have already tried planning regular date nights where “we won’t have our phones and we’ll just talk.” But then it stopped for some reason – and so we’re just not consistent.
She advised Schwarzenegger Pratt’s listeners that it was important “to communicate when you’re unhappy and bite it immediately instead of letting it fester — and then you have animosity and then it explodes.” »
Alba also noted that she and Warren had “experienced it,” since they had been together for so long, and joked that “he basically stole my 20s and 30s.”
“We have, obviously, the friendship, the reassurance of like, ‘You’re not going anywhere,'” she added. “And so sometimes you don’t treat these people in the best possible way, right? You don’t consider their feelings the same way you would consider the feelings of others. So that’s something that I think is a constant – it’s a constant to work on.
She said married couples should avoid discussing topics such as children’s schedules when they are alone.
“That night, or that time, is the time when you really shouldn’t talk about the boring things you talk about during the week anyway. It’s time to move past that and check in in a different way. But it’s hard. It’s really hard.