Jessica Alba’s Ex-fiancé Michael Weatherly Didn’t Hesitate to Confess He Still Thought About Her While She Was Married to Cash Warren

Before she met Cash Warren in 2004, Jessica Alba was in a three-year relationship with Michael Weatherly. Alba and Weatherly worked on James Cameron’s 2000 series Dark Angel. As their characters began to fall for each other in the show, Alba and the NCIS actor also started dating in real life. However, they ended their relationship in 2003, calling off their engagement.

During a 2010 interview, Weatherly recalled his relationship with Alba when explaining the workplace relationship between the characters of his show NCIS, Tony and Ziva. It proved that the romance with Alba was one he didn’t forget, despite both of them being married to other people at the time.

Michael Weatherly still thought about Jessica Alba even when she was married to Cash Warren

Coming from a Catholic background, Jessica Alba never had a serious relationship until co-star Michael Weatherly came into her life. During an interview with Cosmopolitan, she revealed that she was a virgin when she entered into a relationship with Weatherly. The relationship received a lot of bad rap due to their significant 12-year age difference.

Alba and Weatherly got engaged on her 20th birthday. However, they soon called off their engagement in August 2003. Alba later regretted the decision to get engaged. Alba soon found her next love when she met Cash Warren, son of actor Michael Warren, on the set of Fantastic Four in 2004.

Weatherly also moved on to another relationship, marrying Dr. Bojana Janković in 2009. However, he mentioned his relationship with Alba in a 2010 interview when asked about workplace relationships. It made fans question whether the actor really got over the relationship with Alba.

NCIS for a long time teased a relationship between Weatherly’s Tony and Cote de Pablo’s Ziva. Weatherly shared that he related to the struggles of a workplace romance due to his relationship with Alba. He shared with TV Guide:

I remember very strongly the inevitable feeling I had about Jessica when we were doing Dark Angel because it was like I was the Millennium Falcon being sucked into the tractor beam. I didn’t feel I had any control over that part of my life. I think that the same thing does happen for Tony.

Interestingly, Alba was not Michael Weatherly‘s first workplace romance. Before Alba and Dr. Janković, Weatherly was married to his Loving/The City co-star Amelia Heinle. They have a son born in 1996. The couple divorced in 2007.

Jessica Alba and Cash Warren go separate ways after 16 years of marriage

TMZ reported on January 8, 2025, that Jessica Alba and Cash Warren had broken up. They have three children: Honor, 16, Haven, 13, and Hayes, 7. A source told People that the separation was amicable and that they would remain friends and share custody of their kids.

There were speculations about the divorce after the actress was seen in public without her wedding ring. Warren was also missing from the family photos that Alba shared during New Year’s Eve on her Instagram. However, they appeared together as a family in front of the Universal Studios Hollywood entrance gate four days ago. Alba shared pics of the appearance on her Instagram.

Alba and Warren are yet to make a public statement about their separation.

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