Michelle Williams Splits From Indie Rocker Husband After Less Than a Year of Marriage

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Michelle Williams has split from her husband Phil Elverum after less than a year of marriage.

The 38-year-old and 40-year-old indie rock separated at the beginning of the year mere months after they wed in secret ceremony last summer.

A source told People magazine: 'It was an amicable split and they remain friends.'

Michelle stepped out on Thursday night for the Fosse/Verdon screening looking noticeably somber and without her wedding ring.

Phil, of the indie rock groups The Microphones and Mount Eerie, was previously married to Canadian musician Geneviève Castrée for 13 years before she died from inoperable pancreatic cancer in 2016.

The Blue Valentine actress exchanged vows in a top secret ceremony witnessed by a handful of friends in the Adirondack Mountains, she told Vanity Fair.

Both their daughters were present; she has a 12-year-old daughter Matilda from her relationship with the late Heath Ledger and he has a 3-year-old daughter from his first marriage.

'I never gave up on love. I always say to Matilda, "Your dad loved me before anybody thought I was talented, or pretty, or had nice clothes,"' she said in the article which was released in July.

Michelle is heavily guarded about her privacy and has rarely spoken about her personal life, including her three-year romance with Ledger.

'Obviously I've never once in my life talked about a relationship,' she said. 'But Phil isn't anyone else. And that's worth something.

'Ultimately the way he loves me is the way I want to live my life on the whole. I work to be free inside of the moment. I parent to let Matilda feel free to be herself, and I am finally loved by someone who makes me feel free.'

She admitted that it's difficult discussing Heath more than ten years after he died of cardiac arrest from an accidental overdose.

'I don't really want to talk about any of it,' she said. 'But there's that tease, that lure, that's like, 'What if this helps somebody? What if somebody who has always journeyed in this way, who has struggled as much as I struggled, and looked as much as I looked, finds something that helps them?'

'Don't settle. Don't settle for something that feels like a prison, or is hard, or hurts you. If it doesn't feel like love, it's not love.'