Dennis Quaid, 71, offers rare comment on marriage to Lauren Savoie, 32
Quaid, 71, offered a rare insight into his relationship with wife Laura Savoie, 32, in a recent interview with Fox News Digital. The pair tied the knot in 2020 after getting engaged the year prior.
"My life is paradise," Quaid told the outlet in an article published July 28. "Every day is paradise with her. It really is.
"It's the closest relationship I've ever had with anybody. Every day is paradise. What can I tell you?" the "Playing for Keeps" actor confessed. "I don't know why God had waited so long to bring her, for her to come along, but (I'm) really glad he brought her into my life, or I walked into hers."
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As for their 39-year age gap, Quaid thinks other people are more concerned than the two of them.
"I haven't spoken out about the age difference of my wife. Other people have," he told Fox News Digital last year. "I really don't think about it. She's got so much going on that, you know, I just don't notice it. She's just, she's the light of my life."
This is Quaid's fourth marriage. He was previously married to actress P.J. Soles in 1978. After the pair's divorce in 1983, he tied the knot with Meg Ryan, with whom he shares one son, fellow actor Jack Quaid. Their marriage lasted a decade and, after divorcing in 2001, he remarried, saying "I do" with real estate broker Kimberly Buffington in 2004. He and Buffington share twins Thomas and Zoe.
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His love affair with Savoie surprised him as much as the next person, he told The Guardian in 2019, shortly after the couple revealed their engagement.
"I didn't go out looking for an age gap or someone really younger than me," he said. "I met her at a business event and then the relationship developed. … I don't fall in love easy. But I can't let what a few people think control all that.
"I've been married three times and this is the final one, I know it is," he added. "I feel like I have a real partner in life."
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