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Sarah Michelle Gellar has revealed that the secret to her enduring 23-year marriage with Freddie Prinze, Jr. lies in sharing a bedroom but not a bathroom.
Speaking with People magazine in an interview published on Wednesday, the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star explained that having “one bedroom, two bathrooms” helps the couple avoid “a lot of petty fighting.”
Gellar emphasized that it’s not necessary to have both bathrooms in the same bedroom. “There just needs to be an additional bathroom available,” she told the publication.
Gellar also mentioned that since tying the knot in 2002, she and Prinze, 50, have embraced “a quieter life and a private life.”
“We are grateful to live this way,” she added, noting that their fans have been exceptionally respectful of their privacy.
Since meeting on the set of 2000’s “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” they’ve also built a family. Together, they’re quietly raising daughter Charlotte, 16, and son Rocky, 13.
“I always say I’m two people: I’m Sarah Michelle Gellar and I’m Sarah Prinze,” Gellar, 48, said elsewhere in the interview. “They’re different people.”
Gellar’s comments come after the devastating cancellation of her “Buffy” reboot, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale,” which had already filmed a pilot episode.
The actress later said an executive on the show was “not a fan of the original” series, and told Page Six Radio that she hopes it doesn’t leak.
“Because then everyone’s going to have an opinion on this and that,” she explained. “And pilots are not finished. It wasn’t done.”
Her marriage to Prinze, however, appears to be here to stay.
In a more serious 2024 interview with Fox News Digital, Gellar lamented living in “an extremely disposable society” that treats marriage not as something to be fixed, but to be thrown away — an ideology she rejects.
“I think everything takes work in you, whether it’s a friendship or a work relationship or a marriage,”she told the outlet. “You have to put the work in.”
Prinze, meanwhile, agrees. “We work at it,” he told Variety last July.