Anna Faris had thing but bully things to accidental astir her ex, Chris Pratt, and his caller wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, erstwhile speaking with PEOPLE. “We’re each getting overmuch closer, and I truthful admit that,” said Anna, 45, who divided from Chris, 43, successful 2017. Chris and his Katherine, 32, are “very protective of me,” said the Mom star, “and I privation to beryllium precise protective of them. I truthful admit their support.”
Since calling it quits, Ana and Chris person co-parented their 10-year-old son, Jack, portion pursuing different relationships: Ana eloped with cinematographer Michael Barrett in 2021, portion Chris and Katherine tied the knot successful 2019. Katherine – who gave commencement to her and Chris’s daughters successful 2020 and 2022 – is “awesome” arsenic a stepmom. “She’s conscionable connected apical of it,” Ana told PEOPLE. “I emotion however she is with Jack.”
However, Ana shared that the 2 families won’t person a blended Turkey Day this year. “We won’t person this Thanksgiving together, but I bash anticipation that we tin observe [the] holidays. And I bash deliberation we can. But close now, we conscionable person household obligations that instrumentality america elsewhere,” she said. “I’m blessed with that element. And it feels conscionable overmuch easier present that clip has passed. It feels truly bully to not unrecorded with that interior churning of unpleasantness.”
Fans came to Anna’s rescue during a infinitesimal of perceived unpleasantness successful 2021. When Chris celebrated Katherine’s day with a station astir however “she’s fixed maine an astonishing beingness [and] a gorgeous steadfast daughter,” immoderate perceived it a flimsy considering Jack was calved with “severe encephalon bleeding and determination was a accidental that helium could beryllium developmentally disabled,” Anna wrote successful her memoir, per Complex. Fans argued that Chris was dismissing his ex, which profoundly wounded the Guardians of the Galaxy star.
“I said thing like, ‘Find idiosyncratic who looks astatine you the mode my woman looks astatine me,'” Pratt told Men’s Health in June 2022 . “And past I gave her immoderate crap successful the happening and said, ‘But I emotion you. I’m truthful thankful for my wife—she gave maine a beautiful, steadfast daughter.’ And past a clump of articles came retired and said, ‘That’s truthful cringeworthy. I can’t judge Chris Pratt would convey her for a steadfast girl erstwhile his archetypal kid was calved premature. That’s specified a excavation astatine his ex-wife.’ And I’m like, That is f-cked up. My son’s gonna work that 1 day. He’s nine. And it’s etched successful integer stone. It truly fucking bothered me, dude. I cried astir it. I was like, I hatred that these blessings successful my beingness are—to the radical adjacent to me—a existent burden.”