10 Celebrity Splits That Devastated Us

10. Bruce Willis and Demi Moore

Although Moore and Willis split up in 2000 after 13 years of marriage, the couple continued to make their children a priority. "They always made an effort to do all of the family events still together and made such an effort to still have our family be as one unit," daugher Rumer said, "as opposed to two separate things, which I think really made an impact."

9. Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston

 Just days after a cozy vacation to Anguilla, which seemingly put rumors of strife to rest, Hollywood's golden couple announced they were spliting. Immediately, speculation began of a relationship between Pitt and his Mr. and Mrs. Smith costar (and now ex) Angelina Jolie. But after 10 years, Aniston called the supposed feud between the two actresses dated. "It's just tiresome and old. It's like an old leather shoe," she says. "Let's buy a new pair of shiny shoes."

8. Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger

After a nine year marriage, Baldwin and Basinger, who have a daughter together, called it quits in 2002. In an interview with PEOPLE, Basinger's father cited Baldwin's anger issues as the reason for the split. "Alec has this kind of anger where he reaches down for something that hurts, something that may have happened a year or two ago, and then abuses Kim with it," he says. "This has happened publicly. But it's when it started happening in front of (daugher) Ireland that Kim finally said, 'Well, I'm not going to put up with that.'"

7. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes

The split between Cruise and Holmes sent shock waves through the celebrity world when the actress filed for divorce five days before Cruises's 50th birthday in June 2012. Though the actor said he was blindsided and deeply saddened by the split, he and Holmes remained tight lipped about what could have been an explosive legal battle, instead quietly coming to a settlement that focused on the best interest of their 10 year old daughter, Suri.

6. Russell Brand and Katy Perry

After a whilwind marriage in 2010, Perry and Brand - who the singer says texted her to say he was filing for divorce - split in 2011. But Perry is staying positive. "I don't like to live in fear because that traps you and your voices," she said. "Fear is a control tactic in the world that is negative and depressing, and I don't want to be associated with it."

5. Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez

In 2011, Lopez and Anthony revealed they were ending their 8 year marriage in a statement to PEOPLE. The star couple share custody of their two children, 7 year old twins Emme and Maximilian. "I felt like my whole life had fallen apart," Lopez said of the breakup. But the singer assures that there's no bad blood: "We love our kids, and we have love for each other. We always will."

4. Ryan Phillipe and Reese Witherspoon

Once Hollywood's golden couple, Witherspoon and Phillipe first met on the set of Cruel Intentions before getting hitched in 1999. The pair, who had been together for close to a decade, both agreed that their 2006 divorce was the hardest thing they had experienced. "I spent a few years just trying to feel better .. You can't really be creative when you feel like your brain is scrambled eggs," Witherspoon has said.

3. Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow

Paltrow helped introduce the world to the phrase "conscious uncoupling," which is how she described the 2014 end of her marriage with Martin. The pair had been together for 10 years, but still continue to co-parent and are regularly photographed together with their children.

2. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner

"We go forward with love and friendship for one another and a commitment to co-parenting our children," Affleck and Garner told PEOPLE in a June 2015 statement announcing their divorce after 10 years of marriage. The pair are parents to three kids: Violet, Seraphina and Samuel.

1. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

After two years of marriage and more than a decade together, AJP and Brad Pitt split in Sept 2016. Jolie, who shares six children - Maddox, Zahara, Pax, Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox - with the actor, was the one to file for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.