Justin Theroux And Jennifer Aniston Still Close

Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston may be exes, but they’re not about to conform to the age-old rule that says you have to hate each other, sorry, “dislike” is a better word. There’s no hatred between them, just good and fun friendship, the type that wishes the other does great in everything he/she is doing. Maybe we should take notes from them?

Jennifer Aniston Is Still “Friends” With Her Ex

The couple broke up in late 2017 and three years on, they’re still in contact with each other and have goals to make one another laugh as often as they can.

“I would say we’ve remained friends. We don’t talk every day, but we call each other,” Theroux reveals in Esquire’s latest cover story. “We FaceTime. We text. Like it or not, we didn’t have that dramatic split, and we love each other. I’m sincere when I say that I cherish our friendship.”

He also added that they “cannot be together and still bring each other joy and friendship. Also, she makes me laugh very, very hard. She’s a hilarious person. It would be a loss if we weren’t in contact, for me personally. And I’d like to think the same for her.”

Jennifer Aniston, 52, and Justin Theroux, 49, have had their share of dramatic relationships, and dramatic splits, before they met each other on the set of Wanderlust in May 2011. Things moved fast and smooth between them and in January 2012, they purchased a home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles for roughly $22 million. They became engaged that same year in August, and wed on August 5, 2015.

In 2018, they revealed that they had previously split back in late 2017.

Amicable Break Up

Months after the couple announced their split, Theroux broke his silence regarding the spit, saying that they went their separate ways without any hostility between them.

“The good news is that was probably the most — I’m choosing my words really carefully — it was kind of the most gentle separation, in that there is no animosity,” he told The New York Times at the time.

“Again, neither one of us is dead, neither one of us is looking to throw hatchets at each other,” he added. “It’s more like, it’s amicable. It’s boring, but, you know, we respected each other enough that it was as painless as it could be.”

The couple remaining friends after their breakup doesn’t mean that it wasn’t hurtful for them. “It was heartbreaking, only in the sense that the friendship would not be the same, as far as just the day to day,” Theroux said. “But the friendship is shifting and changing, you know, so that part is something that we’re both very proud of.”