Emmy Rossum is sharing the story behind her first marriage to music executive Justin Siegel.
The Shameless actress married Justin at the age of 21 and never told anyone about the marriage, not even her mom.
Emmy and Justin met when she was recording her pop album in 2007. At the time, he worked at her label Interscope Records in Artists and Repertoire (A&R), the division of a record label that is responsible for scouting and artist development.
While appearing on the new episode of Alex Cooper‘s podcast Call Her Daddy, Emmy opened up about the ultimatum that Justin gave to her, leading to them getting married.
Emmy married Justin in February 2008, right before she traveled to Mexico for six months to film Dragonball: Evolution.
“I started dating Justin, and he worked at Interscope Records that I was signed to. And we were dating for maybe a couple months. We liked each other. And then I got Dragonball: Evolution and I was going to go away for six months to Mexico, the middle of Mexico, and make this movie. And I remember the day that I was going away to make the movie, he said something to me like, ‘I don’t know if the relationship is gonna survive the distance. So maybe we should break up or get married,’” Emmy recalled.
Alex was in shock and Emmy said, “How could I make this up?”
She continued, “I literally had a flight that night to Durango, Mexico… At that moment, I thought to myself, ‘Well, I’m just coming off these two really rough heartbreaks.’ Abandonment is my core wound. I don’t want that. That hurts me. And my 21-year-old brain thought, ‘You know. Divorce doesn’t seem that complicated. Like, it’s probably pretty straightforward.’”
Alex asked if Emmy was planning the divorce before the wedding even happened and she replied, “100%.”
Emmy said that Justin “literally printed out a marriage contract online and got some guy on the internet to come over my house. I found a white turtleneck that was in my closet and threw it on ‘cause I was like, ‘This is appropriate, right?’ Literally not hearing the smoke detector in my head being like, ‘Don’t do this. You don’t have to do this.’”
Emmy kept the marriage a secret until it was time to get a divorce.
“It was my intention not to tell anybody, because I knew in my gut it wasn’t right,” Emmy said.
Emmy was away filming the movie for 6 months and she says that Justin never visited her while she was on set, despite his ultimatum to get married.
“When I got back, it became abundantly clear we weren’t a match in any way,” she said. “I told my mom, ‘Hey, I’m breaking up with Justin, and I need a lawyer.’ She was like, ‘You did not.’ I was like, ‘I did.’ And my mom has always been somebody that mobilizes. If anyone is going through a breakup—my mom is not employed right now—so, if you need someone to show up, she’ll send you for a manicure and be like, ‘I have the U-Haul. Go take care of yourself.’”
Emmy eventually met TV creator Sam Esmail in 2013 and they got married in 2017. They are parents to two kids: a five-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son.
Justin is now the executive producer of conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro‘s podcast.
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