Billy Porter and his husband Adam Smith have called it quits after six years of marriage, the actor’s rep has stated.
“The decision was an amicable and mutual one and was made after much consideration,” Simon Halls said in a statement to People. “They continue to love and support each other as they embark on this next chapter. There will be no further comment from either parties and it would be appreciated if their privacy be respected.”
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The couple met back in 2009 and dated for about a year before going their separate ways. They rekindled their relationship in 2015 and become engaged the following year. Two weeks after their engagement, on Jan. 14, 2017, Porter and Smith tied the knot in an intimate ceremony in Manhattan.
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Porter previously told People that it was important for them to get married before former President Donald Trump took office.
“We were discussing, and Billy had actually brought up to me that it’s important for us to get married while [Barack] Obama is still President and before January 20,” the Pose star said.
He later revealed that neither of them saw themselves getting married until they found each other.
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“The thought of marriage, there was no context for it — there was no dreaming about it because there was no context to dream,” he said at the time. “It was unspoken and very clear that the sanctity of marriage was not for us.”
Porter continued, “So to see that come around, to see that tide turned, it still takes my breath away; I’m still trying to find the words to describe it. I didn’t think I needed it. I lived with this idea that it just wasn’t for us. So when we went to get our marriage license the other day, the act of that was so powerful in a way that crept up on the both of us, and it just grounded that moment.”
