Lauren Graham Breaks Silence On Peter Krause Split 1 Year Later: We Didn’t Ask ‘Fundamental Questions’

It’s been implicit a twelvemonth since Lauren Graham, 55, and Peter Krause, 57, split, and present that immoderate clip has gone by, the Gilmore Girls histrion said she tin present spot that they astir apt weren’t the champion partners for each other. The 55-year-old histrion told PEOPLE successful an interrogation published Wednesday, Nov. 2, “I deliberation portion of each the positives of having known each different for a truly agelong clip were there. And 1 of the negatives of that is we astir came into a narration arsenic radical successful their 40s without asking immoderate of the questions radical successful their 40s should beryllium asking.”

Peter Krause and Lauren Graham get astatine the 77th yearly Golden Globe Awards astatine the Beverly Hilton Hotel connected Jan. 5, 2020. (Shutterstock)

Lauren, who archetypal met Peter portion appearing connected an occurrence of Caroline In The City successful 1995, said they “had specified a bully clip together” that it astir apt made her place their differences. She explained, “I didn’t possibly inquire immoderate cardinal questions astir ‘What are your values and what bash you envision?’ and those much grown-up things. And past they conscionable caught up with us.”

Fifteen years aft gathering successful 1995, Lauren and Peter began dating successful 2010 — after they started playing siblings connected NBC’s Parenthood. And their emotion lasted a agelong time. In fact, they were unneurotic for much than a decade, but their narration deed a unsmooth spot during the coronavirus pandemic.

During an April 2021 quality connected The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Lauren said, “I deliberation the reentry was much difficult.” She explained that Peter quarantined with his 21-year-old son, Roman, portion she was distant working, and erstwhile she returned, things were different. “It was much similar they were the joined couple, and I was the idiosyncratic who … they were like, ‘We don’t bash it that mode anymore.’ They were like, ‘No, no, no, this is however things happen.'”

Peter Krause and Lauren Graham be the ‘Max’ movie premiere successful Los Angeles connected June 23, 2015. (Shutterstock)

Then, successful June 2022, it was confirmed that Lauren and Peter had softly split 1 twelvemonth anterior — conscionable a mates months aft her quality connected The Ellen DeGeneres Show. But now, Lauren is focusing connected her caller book, Have I Told You This Already? Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember, which helped her navigate done her heartbreak and comes retired connected Nov. 15. She precocious told PEOPLE, “I conscionable was not going to fto [the breakup] flatten me. I was like, ‘OK, well, look astatine each the bully worldly I have, and look astatine each the bully times,’ and ‘I’m going to constitute this book.’ Thank goodness I person these outlets and these stories to tell.”