Freddie Prinze Jr. Reveals The Secret Behind His 23-year Marriage With Sarah Michelle Gellar

Freddie Prinze Jr. reflected connected nan concealed down his 23-year matrimony to character Sarah Michelle Gellar. 

During a caller question and reply with Variety, nan 49-year-old character candidly opened up astir really he and Gellar, 48, person kept their narration beardown successful Hollywood. 

"Marriage is difficult nary matter what business you’re in," nan "She's All That" prima said. "What useful for america mightiness not activity for everyone else."

He continued, "We activity astatine it. I’m not perfect. She’s not perfect. We piss each different off, but we respect 1 another. We were friends first." 

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Freddie Prinze Jr. shared his thoughts connected nan cardinal to his successful matrimony to Sarah Michelle Gellar.  (Sarah Michelle Gellar / Instagram )

"Maybe that’s nan secret? It wasn’t conscionable "Oh, she’s hot, he’s basking — let’s hook up," he added. "But I cognize group who’ve done it nan different way, and their relationships are conscionable arsenic beardown arsenic mine."

Gellar and Prinze Jr. first met while filming nan deed 1997 scary movie "I Know What You Did Last Summer." However, sparks didn't instantly alert betwixt nan two. 

In a 2001 question and reply with People, Prinze Jr. admitted that nan early mates "really didn’t excavation each other" astatine first.

"Then 1 time I gave her a thrust to nan gym," he said. "We talked connected nan measurement up, and she was a cool chick."

The mates met successful 1997 and joined successful 2002.  (Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

The brace became friends, but their narration didn't move romanticist until 3 years later. During a associated question and reply pinch People Now successful 2020, Gellar and Prinze Jr. explained really they accidentally went connected a first date. 

"We were friends for a very agelong time. We'd had galore dinners before. And we were expected to spell pinch personification else, and nan 3rd personification didn't make it retired and we decided to still go," nan "Buffy nan Vampire Slayer" alum recalled. 

"We were conscionable 2 group astatine meal catching up," Gellar continued. "We had a agelong car thrust and a agelong meal and things conscionable happened."

Prinze Jr. told nan outlet that he wholly mislaid liking successful seeing different women aft his first day pinch Gellar. 

"I didn't spell connected dates pinch different girls, nor did I moreover want to prosecute dates pinch different girls," he said. 

The brace stock 2 children.  (Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Knott's Scary Farm)

The mates announced their engagement successful 2001 and tied nan knot a twelvemonth later successful Mexico erstwhile Gellar was 24 and Prinze was 26.

Prinze Jr. and Gellar, who besides co-starred successful 2002's "Scooby-Doo" and nan 2004 sequel "Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed," welcomed their first child, girl Charlotte Grace, successful 2009. In 2012, Gellar gave commencement to their son, Rocky James.

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While speaking pinch Variety, Prinze Jr. explained really he treasured his family life with Gellar and their children. 

"I conscionable emotion my kids," he said. "My girl is distant for nan summer, and I dislike it. I for illustration hanging retired pinch my boy — he’s really funny. I emotion my wife, man. I joined her for a reason."

Prinze Jr. explained really their narration is built connected a instauration of relationship and respect.  (Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Paramount+)

During a December 2024 question and reply pinch Fox News Digital, Gellar weighed successful connected nan cardinal to an enduring union. She besides expressed her position that changes successful societal values had led to nan diminution of long-lasting relationships.

"I deliberation everything takes activity successful you, whether it's a relationship aliases a activity narration aliases a marriage," nan "Dexter: Original Sin" prima said.

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"You person to put nan activity in," she continued. "And we unrecorded successful an highly disposable nine now."

"Your telephone breaks, you don't hole it. You get a caller one," Gellar added. "And I deliberation that's a batch of nan cognition toward relationships."

"And I don't know, possibly abstracted bathrooms," nan character joked.

The 2 appeared successful nan 2025 type of "I Know What You Did Last Summer." (Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)

Prinze Jr. is presently starring successful nan 2025 type of "I Know What You Did Last Summer," which was released connected Friday. The character reprised his domiciled arsenic Ray Bronson successful nan bequest sequel to nan first movie successful nan four-part franchise. 

The couple's erstwhile co-star Jennifer Love Hewitt besides returned to play nan original film's protagonist, Julie James. Hewitt and Prinze Jr. antecedently reunited successful nan 1998 sequel "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer."

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Gellar, whose characteristic Helen Shivers was killed disconnected successful nan first film, made a cameo quality successful nan caller installment during a dream sequence.

"I Know What You Did Last Summer" was released connected June 18.