Before Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson met their respective companions, they have been in a decade-long relationship. Here's a timeline of their romance.

Relationships between actors in Hollywood are all the time a captivating internet of who-dated-who. Marlowe megastar Diane Kruger has been thankfully in a relationship with The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus since 2017, however fanatics are always curious to know about her previous decade-long relationship with Dawson's Creek star Joshua Jackson.

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While the National Treasure darling and the Dr. Death lead weren't essentially the most unexpected of Hollywood couples, stay reading for a complete timeline of Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson's relationship, together with how they met and why they broke up.

Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson met in 2006.

Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson met in 2006, following Diane's cut up from then-husband Guillaume Canet, a French actor and director. Although the precise details in their meeting are unclear, the pair started attending awards displays and film premieres with one another.

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However, their relationship didn't start the way one would expect: on the time, Joshua told Us Weekly that their first date "was a miserable one." The Fringe actor reflected, "I took her to an Italian restaurant, and there was some flower that was blooming. She was allergic to it so she sniffled and sneezed the entire time."

Joshua added, "And when I get nervous, you might have noticed I talk a lot. So I just chewed her ear off for an hour and a half … It was amazing. I'm surprised she ever called back."

Later, Diane told Conan O'Brien that she wasn't sure it was a date within the first place when she agreed to dinner.

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Thankfully, the duo worked it out, and their relationship blossomed. Joshua even credit Diane, who used to be a fashion, with upping his style recreation, telling The Hollywood Reporter in 2015, "One of the most attractive things to me about Diane is how confident she is in herself as a woman and in her beauty, and how much self-respect she has and the way that manifests itself in the way she dresses."

"I certainly pay more attention to how I dress now than I did a decade ago before we started dating," he added.

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Diane and Joshua cut up in 2016.

Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson's breakup "didn't happen overnight," she told Vulture. "This was a long time coming,” Diane said. “Also we broke up many months before we said we were broken up, so by the time I made that decision, it didn’t feel like it was so urgent anymore. You don’t break up overnight after 10 years, you know what I mean?"

Diane added, "It wasn’t like an urgent, ‘Oh my god, I can’t sleep at night’ thing. Actually, it felt liberating because I didn’t have to worry about that anymore, so I could immerse myself 100 percent into something else."

It seems like Diane and Joshua parted tactics for the best! Diane has been engaged to Norman Reedus since 2021, and Joshua tied the knot with actress Jodie Turner-Smith in 2019.

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