James Cameron’s marriage with Linda Hamilton ended on a tumultuous note, and the actress reveals it wasn’t because of his affair with Titanic’s Suzy Amis. The ex-couple met on the set of The Terminator in 1984 after Hamilton starred as Sarah Connor, later officially becoming a couple during the production of the second movie.
The director’s dedication to his work is said to be the culprit of the destruction of his marriage with Hamilton. The grueling film production of Titanic, along with its raging success, took over his life and he reportedly paid more attention to it than his family.
James Cameron and Linda Hamilton broke up because of Titanic
Linda Hamilton was married to James Cameron from 1997 to 1999, but she said that his affair with Suzy Amis, who played Lizzy Calvert in Titanic, was not the only reason they separated. They already experienced problems within their relationship, which resulted in a temporary breakup.
Cameron started dating Amis during this period, but he also left her after Hamilton changed her mind. They got married, but the director felt guilty about what he did to Amis. Even though Cameron chose the Titanic actress in the end, Hamilton said she wasn’t the main reason for wanting to break up with the filmmaker for good.
In her interview with The Sun (via Digital Spy), she claimed, “Titanic was the mistress he left me for.” The 68-year-old star revealed that her ex-husband was so obsessed with his work. “He was the kind of man who really would rather be at work with the mistress than at home with the wife,” she added.
On a more striking note, Hamilton thought the success of the Titanic movie changed Cameron.
He couldn’t stop talking about how successful it was. Christmas dinner with the Cameron family would involve everyone talking about their ‘experience’ of Titanic, instead of just getting together and being a family.
The 1997 romance drama film became one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, becoming one of Cameron’s most profitable and critically acclaimed projects throughout his entire career. Since then, Hamilton has moved on and maintained a good friendship with the veteran filmmaker.
Linda Hamilton reveals why her marriage with James Cameron did not work out
In 2019, Hamilton spoke about her marriage with Cameron after collaborating again in Terminator: Dark Fate. She said that even both of them didn’t know what happened. “That relationship was a mystery to all of us—even Jim and myself—because we are terribly mismatched,” she confessed via The New York Times.
In the end, she realized they did not fit like a puzzle, unlike the first time they met. What happened was that Cameron fell in love with her version of Sarah Connor, which the director admitted as well. He saw Hamilton’s similarities with her character, and they became fascinated with each other. “I think we were just in this high-velocity spiral around each other for a long time,” he told the news outlet.
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