Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves starred as main leads in 1992’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula film where they got married having an actual priest for the wedding scene. The actress had revealed to Entertainment Weekly in a joint interview with Keanu Reeves, saying, “We actually got married in Dracula. No, I swear to god I think we’re married in real life. We shot the master and he did the whole thing. So I think we’re married.”
The 37-year-old actor Keanu was also asked if he and Winona Ryder are technically married, to which he answered, “We did a whole take of marriage ceremony with real priests. Winona says we are. Coppola says we are. So I guess we’re married under the eyes of God.”
He had also revealed in an interview with The Talk in 2019 that Once in a while, he gets a text from Winona saying, “Hello, husband.”
He shared, “I didn’t really believe her, and then Francis Ford Coppola, the director of Dracula contacted Winona and said publicly that, yeah, that really happened, the priest did a full ceremony and Winona and I got married.”
While it may sound real, the truth is the two actors have separate lovers in their real lives and has true friendship connection instead. Winona Ryder has been dating her boyfriend Scott Mackinlay Hahn since 2011, and Keanu Reeves has been involved with artist Alexandra Grant since 2018.
Winona Ryder Dating History
Winona Ryder is a beautiful and popular actress in Hollywood and has dated many handsome celebrities. She first met Johnny Depp at the premiere of Great Balls of Fire in 1989, and at the time, she was only 17 years old. Eventually, they became the most envied couples in Hollywood, and after only five months of dating, they got engaged. They had appeared as love interests in the film Edward Scissorhands.
Johnny Depp had also described that it was love at first sight and shared, “At the premiere of Great Bals of Fire, a film which she played Jerry Lee Lewis’s child bride, they spotted each other from across the lobby. I was getting a coke. It was a classic glance, like the zoom lenses in West Side Story and everything else gets foggy.” He had also expressed his love for Ryder, sharing, “There’s been nothing in my 27 years that’s comparable to the feeling I have with Winona.”
Winona had also admitted that Johnny was her first at everything, saying, “When I met Johnny, I was pure virgin. He changed that. He was my first everything. My first real kiss. My first real boyfriend. My first fiancé. The first guy I had sex with. So he’ll always be in my heart. Forever. Kind of funny, that word.”
Johnny even got a tattoo on his biceps that said, “Winona Forever,” which was changed to “Wino Forever” after their split. Ryder reacted to the tattoo, saying, “I sort of was in shock. I kept thinking it was going to wash off or something. I couldn’t believe it was real. I mean, it’s a big thing because it’s so permanent!”
However, they went separate ways due to societal pressures and Depp expressed his emotions after breaking up saying, “I thought if we were honest it would destroy that curiosity monster. Instead, it fed, it gave people license to feel they were part of it.”
Many fans and even directors have said that Johnny was never the same again after their breakup. Ryder also became severely depressed, drinking all day and listening to sad music. She has also been prescribed sleeping pills, and one night she fell asleep with a cigarette in her hand, waking up with flames surrounding her.
Winona had stood up for her first love when he was accused of abuse allegations by his wife, Amber Heard, which ended up being false. Winona said in an interview with Time Magazine, “I don’t know what happened, I'm not calling anyone a liar. I'm just saying, it’s difficult and upsetting for me to wrap my head around it...look, it was a long time ago but we were together for four years and it was a big relationship for me.“ She went on to say, “I’ve never seen him be violent toward a person before.”
After her love story with Johnny Depp, she dated David Pirner for three years.
Other big names of her ex-boyfriend are Page Hamilton, Blake Sennett, and Matt Damon. Then she met her current boyfriend, Scott Mackinlay, in 2011. They have been very private about their relationship, using no social media accounts. However, she has talked about marriage saying, "Marriage? I don’t know. I'd rather never have been married than been divorced a few times. Not that there’s anything wrong with divorce, but I don’t think I could do it if that was a possibility, when your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high."
However, she has shared her struggles in reconciling with her personal decisions and said that her father had indicated other ways to bond with kids beyond becoming actual parents. She said, “That’s true – and I get these amazing doses with my brother’s kids.”
Net Worth Of Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder is a well-respected actress in Hollywood and has an estimated net worth of $18 million. Her popular films and movies are Little Women (1994), Lucas (1986), The Godfather: Part III (1990), Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, Mermaids, Stranger things, Girl, Interrupted, and many more.
Winona was caught shoplifting in 2001, after which she decided to take a self-imposed three-year break from acting. By the time, she returned she was 35 years old in 2006, and Hollywood had stopped making movies like How to Make an American Quilt, Reality Bites, and Girl Interrupted. Women don’t get to age into drizzled character actors because Hollywood romance is mostly a bunch of dudes and a babe, which meant that there were no films that could give the acclaimed actress a robust career as a leading lady barely existed.
In general, Hollywood stopped making films suitable for Ryder, and ultimately she grew out of the age range playing for the female lead/love interest, which was the main reason she fell out of Hollywood; however, she didn’t vanish completely. She was put back in the spotlight after her role in Stranger Things.