Almost 20 years later, Jessica Alba is reflecting on her first red carpet alongside Warren Money with some clash with his former self.
As part of her ET retrospective reunion, the longtime Hollywood star revisited the day she stepped out at the Los Angeles premiere of Sin City in 2005. At the time, her then-boyfriend, Warren, joined her. Although it wasn’t the first event she attended with her future husband – they were side by side at a party to celebrate his April 2005 cover of HQ a week earlier – the premiere marked her official red carpet debut and Alba made quite a statement in an interview with ET at the time.
“Oh my God – was that the first red carpet I brought Cash to? Oh my God, I said – I even said ‘love of my life,'” she acknowledges, reacting to the 19-year-old’s interview comments. “Wow, nine months and I declare that he is the love of my life! What the hell was I thinking?”
Judging by your continuous marriage of 16 years, Alba, in retrospect, wasn’t wrong in giving him the esteemed label years ago. And as she reflected on that time in her life, Warren would continue to prove that he was the right man for her.
“It’s interesting to have someone who wasn’t involved in entertainment having to deal with a lot of our lives as if we were in a fishbowl,” she says. “At the time, the tabloids were on fire and we didn’t have social media, so we couldn’t control our own narratives, which is why we were so exposed to how journalists wanted to portray us.”
Although Warren wasn’t a total stranger to the industry – he worked as an assistant director on her film, The Fantastic Four – the attention on him was certainly heightened when he dated one of Hollywood’s best-known leading ladies.
“I must say he had a lot of patience to deal with it. And I think it definitely would have broken a lot of relationships – any other, you have to be a certain kind of person to be able to. deal with it,” she points out, “and he handled it really well, considering, I mean, most people in my shoes, you know, they can’t deal with it, sort of someone who was like, I don’t even I wanted. this, ask for this.”
Almost two decades of marriage later, the couple is still going strong as husband and wife It is parents to daughters Honor, 16, and Haven, 12, and son Hayes, 6. Meanwhile, Alba continued to act while running her Honest Company. In April, she announced that was leaving office as Creation director, although she remains on the board. This year, she also launched her production company Lady Spitfire, through which she executive produced her upcoming film, Netflix’s Trigger warning.
“I really thought, OK, I want to do an action movie, but I really want a female version of what it’s like to be in an action movie like this,” she told ET. “I wanted it to be gritty. I wanted it to be raw. I wanted hand-to-hand combat. I would say the toughest people I know are women. We can juggle so many things and we could also, like, create life and give birth and raising children and doing all the things.”
And, as evidenced by daughter Honor’s recent interests, she’s leading by example in real life.
“My daughter, my oldest – she loves writing, she loves editing, she loves directing and so, she’s done a few short films and, you know, it’s cool to see her want to be behind the scenes and behind the camera and telling stories,” says Alba. “It’s really cool.”
Trigger warning premieres June 21 on Netflix.
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