Inside Claire Danes' History Of Cheating Scandals

The first cheating scandal involving Claire Danes sprouted in 2003, amidst the high-profile breakup Billy Crudup had with fellow actor Mary-Louise Parker, per Entertainment Weekly, who was seven months pregnant with his child at the time. According to The Age, Danes was dating singer Ben Lee at this point, but broke up with him to pursue a relationship with Crudup. 

"I was just in love with him," Danes told Howard Stern of Crudup in 2015, per Vanity Fair. "And [I] needed to explore that, and I was 24 ... I didn't quite know what those consequences would be." She added that the public scrutiny around the whole situation was a "scary thing. That was really hard." 

She also told Blackbook in 2009 that she chose to fall in love in the actor. "It's unpleasant to be cast in such an unflattering role," she explained, "but I just had to remain steadfast." The two of them ended up breaking up three years later, though they remained friends, according to ET.

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