Celebrity Couples Who Stayed Together After Cheating Scandals

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Celebrity Couples Who Stayed Together After Cheating Scandals

Celebrity couples have their ups and downs just like Us. From Beyoncé and Jay-Z to Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott, many Hollywood marriages have overcome allegations of infidelity over the years. Vanderpump Rules stars Brittany Cartwright and Jax Taylor worked through Taylor’s cheating past — he was caught hooking up with former costar Faith Stowers during season 6 — ahead of tying the knot in June 2019. “I see him every single day making efforts and he’s completely changed the way he treats me, the way he talks to me, the way he listens to me. Every single thing about our relationship is better,” Cartwright told Us Weekly exclusively in November 2018. “I know how much he’s wanting the wedding and how much he’s wanting to marry me, how much effort he’s putting into the wedding, just as much as me. I don’t know, whenever you know somebody as well as I know Jax, you can just tell.” In 2017, multiple reports surfaced that Kevin Hart cheated on his wife, Eniko Parrish, while was pregnant with their first child. The couple have since repaired their relationship, but it wasn’t easy. “This was a bad one. This was major,” Parrish said during an episode of Hart’s Netflix docuseries, Don’t F—k This Up, which dropped in 2019. “Nine years and I think looking forward, it’ll be better. I believe in second chances. I’m all about forgiveness, and you only get two times. Three strikes you’re out, you’re out of here. So, as long as he behaves, we’re good.” [jwplayer gHa2qTCN-zhNYySv2] The Jumanji: Next Level actor opened up about the couple’s road to recovery in May 2020, saying that it “wasn’t a walk in the park” to get back to a good place. He explained on “The School of Greatness” podcast that following his apology, Parrish held him “accountable for his actions. “She came to an amazing conclusion of, ‘I like the fact that we have a family, that we have a household, and I like the fact that we now got a job to do to get better,” he recalled. “That’s what you owe me. You owe me the get-better.’” Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson also faced a cheating scandal while the reality star was pregnant with their daughter, True, in 2018. Although the two worked through the incident, the pair later called it quits in February 2019, after the NBA star was caught cheating again, this time with Kylie Jenner’s former best friend Jordyn Woods. Us confirmed in August 2020, that the duo have rekindled their romance after successfully coparenting and spending time apart for more than a year. A year later, an insider exclusively told Us that Kardashian and Thompson split up once more. In July 2022, Us confirmed that the former couple were getting ready to welcome a second child together. Their son arrived one month later. Scroll down to see some of the most famous pairs who have stayed together after surviving cheating scandals. [podcast_block]

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Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo

The musician made headlines when an Instagram model named Sumner Stroh claimed they had an affair shortly after he announced his wife's third pregnancy. Levine, for his part, denied cheating on Prinsloo in a social media statement.

"I used poor judgment in speaking with anyone other than my wife in ANY kind of flirtatious manner," the Maroon 5 band member wrote via Instagram Story in September 2022. "I did not have an affair, nevertheless, I crossed the line during a regrettable period of my life. In certain instances it became inappropriate. I have addressed that and taken proactive steps to remedy this with my family."

He added: "My wife and my family is all I care about in this world. To be this naive and stupid enough to risk the only thing that truly matters to me was the greatest mistake I could ever make. I will never make it again. I take full responsibility. We will get through it and we will get through it together."

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Dominic West and Catherine FitzGerald

The Affair alum made headlines in October 2020 when he was spotted kissing his Pursuit of Love costar Lily James while married to FitzGerald. The costars were photographed packing on the PDA in Rome and later riding a scooter together and having dinner in the Italian city. One day later, West and FitzGerald put on a united front, posing and kissing for photographers outside their England home. “Our marriage is strong and we’re very much still together,” the duo wrote in a note that they handed to reporters at the time. “Thank you.” 

Seven months later, James addressed the scandal, telling The Guardian, “Ach, I’m not really willing to talk about that. There is a lot to say, but not now, I’m afraid.” The same month, FitzGerald recalled her “wonderful love affair” with West and how their romance began. She told the Irish Independent in May 2021 that their relationship has had “its ups and downs,” but they are now “totally devoted to each other and to our full, vibrant family life together.”

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Evan Felker and Staci Felker

Two years after the Turnpike Troubadours’ cheating scandal with Miranda Lambert, he wrote in Red Dirt that he had “found sobriety and recovery.” Evan explained in August 2020: "I stepped away from the road and got a clearer view of the world. I got back to just being me. I could not have ever done that while we were touring like we were. I had initially blamed everything on being on the road. But it's only when you take the road out of the equation that you see you've still got problems. I was able to start fixing those.”

He and Staci revealed in March 2021 that they had welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Evangeline.

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Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson

The Cleveland Cavaliers star cheated on Kardashian with multiple women, and the news of his infidelity broke just days before the April 2018 birth of their first child, daughter True. Nevertheless, the couple soldiered on, and Kardashian explained the decision on Twitter that June after another user criticized her for staying with the NBA player. “You have no knowledge of what goes on in our household or the enormous rebuilding this takes to even coexist,” she wrote. “I’m proud of my strength. I appreciate your opinion and I hope you hold that same opinion to everyone else who has stayed in situations.”

However, Kardashian and Thompson split in February 2019 after the basketball star was caught cheating with Kylie Jenner’s then-best friend Woods. A source told Us at the time that "Khloé loved Jordyn before this. This is completely shocking to Khloé’s family." After successfully coparenting their daughter for more than a year without being romantically involved, Us confirmed in August 2020 that Kardashian and Thompson are back together.

In June 2021, a source exclusively told Us that Kardashian and Thompson were once again over.

“There was no drama that broke them up, things just didn’t work out between the two of them," the insider revealed. "They remain amicable toward each other and will continue to coparent."

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Mike Caussin and Jana Kramer

The country singer and athlete separated in August 2016, just months after they welcomed their first child, daughter Jolie Rae, in January 2016. At the time, Us broke the news that Caussin cheated on Kramer and was seeking treatment for sex addiction. In June 2017, Kramer opened up about the strained relationship and revealed why said she stayed with her husband. “I stayed in the beginning for Jolie,” she explained on her “Whine Down” podcast, noting that in time she stayed because they were growing. “If was miserable, I would not still be in a relationship with my husband.”

In November 2018, the pair welcomed their second child, son Jace, and in March 2019, Kramer again opened up about her rocky relationship, revealing that Caussin had suffered a “massive” relapse in his sex addiction about a year prior. Since then, the duo has been vocal about working through their struggles.

“Being the perpetrator, it’s hard because there’s a lot of shame behind things that I’ve done and topics that we talk about,” the former NFL player told Us in January 2019. “But by doing [therapy and talking on our podcast], we’ve gotten more comfortable in dealing with them head-on, which has been great for our relationship. There’s not many elephants in the room for us anymore because we address them.”

In April 2021, however, Us confirmed Kramer filed for divorce after six years of marriage. ”I’ve fought y’all. I’ve loved hard. I’ve forgiven. I’ve put the work in. I’ve given everything I have, and now I have nothing else to give,” she said in a statement via Instagram. 

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Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott

The rapper refused to let a cheating hoax created by YouTube star Christian Adam G break up his family in 2018. "Trolls working hard today. I don’t be on a balcony wit no thots. That s–t lame," Scott wrote via Instagram in December 2018. "Try again u trollsssss. Me and my wifey sturdy. Back to celebrateing [sic] !!!” Two months later, reports surfaced in February 2019 that Scott was unfaithful to Jenner. The Texas native’s rep denied the claims saying, “It is not true. He did not cheat.”

Us confirmed in October 2019, that the couple, who welcomed daughter Stormi in February 2018, were taking a break from their romance. “Kylie still loves Travis and this isn’t considered a full breakup to either of them,” a source told Us at the time. Multiple outlets reported in March 2020 that the pair had rekindled their romance.

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Brittany Cartwright and Jax Taylor

The Vanderpump Rules star stayed with Taylor after he was caught cheating on her during Season 6 of the reality show with former SURver Stowers. Cartwright opened up to Us in November 2018 about moving past the infidelity. “I see him every single day making efforts and he’s completely changed the way he treats me, the way he talks to me, the way he listens to me. Every single thing about our relationship is better,” she told Us.

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Kevin Hart and Eniko Parrish

The comedian admitted in a 2017 interview that he cheated on his then-pregnant wife during a trip to Las Vegas. He told Power 105.1 FM’s The Breakfast Club, “I’m hoping that she has a heart to where she can forgive me and understand that this is not going to be a reoccurring thing and allow me to recover from my f—king massive mistake.”

The Jumanji: Next Level actor revealed that his wife, with whom he shares son Kenzo and is expecting a baby girl in 2020, held him “accountable” for his actions. “She came to an amazing conclusion of, ‘I like the fact that we have a family, that we have a household, and I like the fact that we now got a job to do to get better. That’s what you owe me. You owe me the get-better,’” Hart explained on “The School of Greatness” podcast in May 2020. “It was her understanding that we don’t let the outside world affect our inside. And I credit her for setting that tone.”

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Cardi B and Offset

The Migos member faced multiple allegations of infidelity in 2017 after he appeared to be caught in bed with other women in videos that surfaced online. The “Bodak Yellow” rapper responded to the rumors about her fiancé on Twitter, telling her fans that “this s--t happens to everyone.” A source later exclusively told Us, “She has zero intention of leaving him.” In June 2018, news broke that the couple had secretly wed in Atlanta in September 2017. The following month the duo welcomed their first child together, Kulture.

Cardi revealed in an Instagram video in December 2018 that she and her husband had called it quits after more than a year of marriage. The same month, Offset’s former fling, who he allegedly hooked up with in June 2018, apologized for her part in the pair’s drama. Offset later publicly apologized to his estranged wife twice before the two reconciled and hit the Grammys red carpet together in February 2019.

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Beyonce and Jay-Z

Queen Bey and the rapper both tackled the subject of infidelity on their confessional albums Lemonade and 4:44, but it wasn’t until Jay-Z sat down for a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times’ T Magazine in 2017 that he finally admitted to cheating on his wife. He said, “The hardest thing is seeing pain on someone’s face that you caused, and then have to deal with yourself.”

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Josh and Anna Duggar

The 19 Kids and Counting alum confessed to cheating on his wife in 2015 after his profile on the infidelity website Ashley Madison was released due to a data breach. “I am so ashamed of the double life that I have been living,” he said in a statement at the time. Josh later checked into a treatment center and the couple continued to expand their family in the years that followed.

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Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott

The couple fell in love on the set of the TV movie Mind Over Murder in 2005. Spelling was married to Charlie Shanian at the time, and McDermott was wed to Mary Jo Eustace. Both couples separated and Spelling and McDermott married in 2006. However, the Chopped Canada host found himself at the center of yet another cheating scandal in 2003 after Us exclusively revealed that he had a two-day affair with a woman named Emily Goodhand. In a 2016 Today show interview, Spelling explained her decision to stay with her husband: “I was like, ‘You know what? I love this man. I’m going to make this work.’”

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Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade

The Miami Heat star fathered another child during a brief break from the Bring It On actress. “My Life mistakes gave me you and my life mistakes almost made me lose you but your love has conquered all and I hope to spend the rest of my life with you,” he wrote on Instagram in 2014. Despite the drama, the couple tied the knot later that year.

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Hillary and Bill Clinton

The former president had a headline-making affair with his White House intern Monica Lewinsky, then 22, while in office in the mid-1990s. He said during a televised press conference that he “did not have sexual relations” with Lewinsky, but her meeting with prosecutors ultimately led to his impeachment for perjury and obstruction of justice. Hillary survived the initial heartache and decided to stay with Bill. In a 2016 interview with CNN, she recalled, “It was really hard. It was painful. And I was so supported by my friends. My friends just rallied around.”

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Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson

Us published exclusive pictures of the Twilight actress cheating on her costar with her Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders in 2012. Stewart and Pattinson briefly split but decided later that year to give their relationship another try despite the scandal. However, they broke up for good in 2013.

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Fergie and Josh Duhamel

Nine months after the “Glamorous” singer and the Transformers star’s 2009 wedding, an exotic dancer named Nicole Forrester came forward to allege that she had a one-night stand with Duhamel. Forrester passed a lie detector test, but the actor vehemently denied her claims. Fergie opened up about the rumors in a 2012 interview, saying that her marriage was “stronger today definitely because of anything difficult that’s happened with us.” The couple stayed together for years, but ultimately split in early 2017.

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Kobe Bryant and Vanessa Bryant

The former Los Angeles Lakers star was arrested for sexually assaulting a 19-year-old Colorado hotel employee in 2003. He initially denied having sex with the woman, but later acknowledged what he said was a consensual encounter and settled a civil suit. Vanessa filed for divorce in late 2011, but the couple reconciled in early 2013.

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Scottie Pippen and Larsa Pippen

The former NBA star filed for divorce from his wife in 2016 after 19 years of marriage after multiple sources claimed to Us exclusively that she cheated with rapper Future. “He found out about Larsa and Future and couldn’t handle it,” one insider said. The couple reconciled four months later as another source told Us, “They are working on their marriage.”

Two years later, after 21 years of marriage, Larsa filed for divorce from her husband in November 2018. “It is with deep sadness that Scottie and I announce that we are legally separating,” Larsa says in a statement to Us. “We have both tried very hard for a long time to make our marriage work and have ultimately come to the conclusion that it is best that we live separate lives. We have so many amazing memories together, remain best of friends and love each other very much.” The pair share four children.

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David Letterman and Regina Lasko

The former Late Show host admitted on air in 2009 that he had “sex with women who work for me.” He told Rolling Stone six years later that he was grateful to Lasso for not leaving him after the scandal. He also said he had yet to explain his infidelity to the couple’s son, Harry. “We’ll have to have a conversation about it,” Letterman said. “But not yet.”

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Donald Trump Jr. and Vanessa Trump

Donald Trump Jr. met Aubrey O’Day on the season 5 set of his father’s reality series Celebrity Apprentice in 2011. “Things started up with Aubrey and Don Jr. toward the end of the taping,” a source close to the singer told Us Weekly. According to multiple sources, the two carried on an affair from late 2011 until March 2012 until wife Vanessa found emails between him and the former Danity Kane band member. The married couple stayed together but announced they were divorcing in March 2018. “After 12 years of marriage, we have decided to go our separate ways,” they said in a statement to Us on March 19. “We will always have tremendous respect for each other and our families. We have five beautiful children together and they remain our top priority. We ask for your privacy during this time.”

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Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom

The former Los Angeles Lakers player told Us Weekly in 2017 that he cheated on the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star during their seven-year marriage. “Bitches and THOTs came out of the woodwork,” he recalled. “If there is one thing I regret when I was married, it was having multiple affairs with different women. That wasn’t the stand-up thing to do. I wish I could have kept my d--k in my pants.” Kardashian said in an interview with Howard Stern that she was floored when she learned about Odom’s affairs years later. They finalized their divorce in 2016.