If ever there were a case of love at first sight, it was the blind date that Kaley Cuoco, 29, and Ryan Sweeting, 28, enjoyed back in the summer of 2013. “Dinner was great, and then he moved in the next day!” confessed the Big Bang Theory actress, who wed her pro tennis player beau a short six months later. Sadly, the union that came together in a heartbeat has now dissolved just as quickly, with the couple splitting after 21 months of marriage and wiping their social media pages clean of each other.
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It's been reported that Ryan's struggles with painkillers are to blame for the breakup, but that's only part of the story; insiders say the
couple struggled mightily over money, their careers and when they would start a family.
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As tensions between Kaley and Ryan grew, sources say it was the actress' close relationship with her
Big Bang Theory costar
Johnny Galecki, 40, that highlighted all that was wrong in her marriage.
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"Kaley has a special bond with Johnny, an intensity she never had with Ryan," an insider explains. In fact, the castmates dated secretly for two years after meeting on the set, and their friendship thrived even after they called it quits.
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But much of Ryan and Kaley's troubled centered around the fact that Ryan's career was flagging, in part because of injuries and back surgery he had in 2014, and Kaley's was skyrocketing—making $1 million per episode on her sitcom.
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"He never felt it was 'their' money," says the insider. "They fought over finances all the time, which is ridiculous because they never needed to worry about cash flow. If they'd been together longer before they married, there might have been more trust there, and they wouldn't have let money come between them."
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But their money woes weren't the only thing that tore this pair apart. "Kaley said she could never see herself having children while working on the show," says the source. "She didn't want a pregnancy written into the script, and she didn't want to take maternity leave. She just wanted to focus on what was in front of her career-wise. She always said that babies could wait."
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And Kaley's attitude toward her success is fairly complicated, according to the insider. "She's never been comfortable with her level of fame and actually longs for a simpler life," the source says. "At the same time, she and her team have a hard-nosed approach to business, which has made her so financially successful. She feels like she would be letting down too many people—including herself—if she ever walked away from the show."
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Now, after Kaley has been spending way too much effort trying to prove how happy she was with Ryan, she's reverting back to her old ways again—doing things on her own. "Of course, she and Ryan both will be sad that they couldn't make their marriage work," says the insider, but Kaley is going back to "being a lone wolf and making decisions for herself."
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It's been reported that Ryan's struggles with painkillers are to blame for the breakup, but that's only part of the story; insiders say the
couple struggled mightily over money, their careers and when they would start a family.
Photo credit: Splash News
kaley-cuoco-divorce-reasons-8
As tensions between Kaley and Ryan grew, sources say it was the actress' close relationship with her
Big Bang Theory costar
Johnny Galecki, 40, that highlighted all that was wrong in her marriage.
Photo credit: John Shearer/Invision
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"Kaley has a special bond with Johnny, an intensity she never had with Ryan," an insider explains. In fact, the castmates dated secretly for two years after meeting on the set, and their friendship thrived even after they called it quits.
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But much of Ryan and Kaley's troubled centered around the fact that Ryan's career was flagging, in part because of injuries and back surgery he had in 2014, and Kaley's was skyrocketing—making $1 million per episode on her sitcom.
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"He never felt it was 'their' money," says the insider. "They fought over finances all the time, which is ridiculous because they never needed to worry about cash flow. If they'd been together longer before they married, there might have been more trust there, and they wouldn't have let money come between them."
Photo credit: Getty Images
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But their money woes weren't the only thing that tore this pair apart. "Kaley said she could never see herself having children while working on the show," says the source. "She didn't want a pregnancy written into the script, and she didn't want to take maternity leave. She just wanted to focus on what was in front of her career-wise. She always said that babies could wait."
Photo credit: Eric Charbonneau/Invision
kaley-cuoco-divorce-reasons-10
And Kaley's attitude toward her success is fairly complicated, according to the insider. "She's never been comfortable with her level of fame and actually longs for a simpler life," the source says. "At the same time, she and her team have a hard-nosed approach to business, which has made her so financially successful. She feels like she would be letting down too many people—including herself—if she ever walked away from the show."
Photo credit: Mark Robert Milan/GC Images
kaley-cuoco-divorce-reasons-3
Now, after Kaley has been spending way too much effort trying to prove how happy she was with Ryan, she's reverting back to her old ways again—doing things on her own. "Of course, she and Ryan both will be sad that they couldn't make their marriage work," says the insider, but Kaley is going back to "being a lone wolf and making decisions for herself."
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