Jessica Alba and husband Cash Warren reveal secret split in rare interview

Jessica Alba – who has largely retreated from the public eye over the years – has given a rare interview about her longtime marriage.

Jessica Alba and her husband Cash Warren have opened up about the secret to their successful marriage.

Jessica Alba has opened up about the secret to her 15-year marriage.

The US actress, 42, has been married to film producer Cash Warren, 44, since 2008, but the couple recently revealed they had a secret, brief split just before they tied the knot.

Alba, who has largely retreated from the public eye over the years, is promoting her new renovation show Honest Renovations, and she opened up to Entertainment Tonight about the reality of the couple’s two-decade relationship.

“I think sometimes it’s over communication, sometimes it’s under communication,” she told the publication. “Sometimes it’s, ‘I need my space I’ll talk to you [later].’ When I need [you, I’ll say], ‘I miss you, will you come back?’ [It’s about] always communicating how you feel.”

Warren, who met Alba in 2004 on-set of Fantastic Four, delved further into their private life in an interview on Jana Kramer’s Whine Down podcast, where he revealed he became “an a**hole” early on in their romance, which he said was down to jealousy on his part.

Cash Warren and Jessica Alba have been together for almost two decades. Picture: JB Lacroix / AFP

“When we first started dating, I was really jealous of other guys and the attention that she was getting from other guys. It just wasn’t making me feel good,” he said.

“I was always a pretty confident person, walking my own path and really happy there. Next thing you know I’m looking up and just feeling jealous all the time. I was like, ‘I hate feeling like this. It doesn’t make me feel good. And I know it doesn’t make you feel good.’”

He said the couple took a brief time apart from their relationship four years in, where he promised himself if they got back together, he would “channel that in a different way, in a more productive way.”

Ultimately, the pair rekindled and were married in 2008. They share three children, Honor, 15, Haven, 12, and Hayes, 5.

Alba and Warren share three children. Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Alba has been in the public eye since her big shot at stardom in 2000 when she was cast in the American TV series Dark Angel, created by veteran director James Cameron.

She then starred in the 2003 dance flick, Honey, and two years later she hit the top of her game with a starring role in Sin City.

But her career began to dip following her appearance in 2005’s largely-panned Fantastic Four. It was her return in the film’s 2007 sequel, Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, which Alba claimed made her want to quit acting. She claimed she was harshly criticised by director, Tim Story.

“I wanted to stop acting,” she said in an interview with Elle at the time.

“(Story told me) ‘It looks too real. It looks too painful. Can you be prettier when you cry? Cry pretty, Jessica’. He was like, ‘Don’t do that thing with your face. Just make it flat. We can CGI the tears in’.

“And then it all got me thinking: Am I not good enough? Are my instincts and my emotions not good enough?

“Do people hate them so much that they don’t want me to be a person? Am I not allowed to be a person in my work? And so I just said, ‘F**k it. I don’t care about this business anymore’.”

Jessica Alba and Chris Evans in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Picture: Fox

From 2010 onwards, Alba settled into a life mainly out of the spotlight.

She ventured into the world of business, starting up The Honest Company in 2011, a chemical-free baby and household products company. It has since expanded into hair, beauty and skincare.

The Honest Company was valued at roughly $US550 million as of February 2022.

But its market stock has slipped since, with its capitalisation sitting at around $US135 million as of August this year.

Originally published as Jessica Alba and husband Cash Warren reveal secret split in rare interview