It’s one thing to take a break from your marriage to clear your head and figure out your relationship, but it’s unfortunate when your soul-searching sojourn results in having a baby with the other woman who helped clear your head over…and over…and over. That’s the situation director Steven Soderbergh finds himself in at the moment. Soderbergh separated from wife Jules Asner briefly in 2009 and moved to Australia to direct a play. While there, he began a relationship with a woman named Frances Lawrencina Anderson who says that the pair hooked up on numerous occasions and ultimately, Anderson became pregnant with Soderbergh’s child.
Anderson has filed a paternity suit against Soderbergh, and says that the pair engaged in “sexual intercourse on many occasions covering all possible dates of [conception]…and as a result thereof, she became pregnant.” Soderbergh, to his credit “has acknowledged that he is the father of the child verbally and [offered] to pay various medical and other expenses incurred by [Anderson] in relation to the pregnancy.” Soderbergh and Asner are back together and he reportedly accepted full responsibility for the child and the as soon as he learned about the baby. Considering they were already separated in 2009, we’ll be impressed if they manage to work through this situation.
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