Joshua Jackson revealed how his relationship with Katie Holmes, his girlfriend at Dawson’s Creek and his ex in life is

Joshua Jackson and Katie Holmes were, for their fans of generation X and the millennials who added later, one of the most beloved couples of the successful series Dawson´s Creek. Even the love between Joey Potter and Pacey Witter transcended the screen and became a romance in real life. Today, 25 years after those happy years, the actor revealed what the relationship with his ex is like.

Guest to Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s podcast Dinner’s on Methe actor of Doctor Odyssey46, he shared some details about the link he maintains with his former cast. In the round trip with the driver, he said that they recently joined to support James van der Beek, who was diagnosed with colorectal cancer last year, and explained who managed to forge a connection.

“Busy Philipps and Michelle Williams are very close, very close,” he said in relation to the actresses who gave life to Jen Lindley and Audrey Liddell, according to the magazine People. “And Katie and I are very close,” He added immediately. Jackson also explained that while with their former partners they are not always in contact, their connection with them is strong.

“It is not a daily call. Sometimes it is not a weekly, monthly or even semiannual call. But when we are together, there is always something like: ‘I know you know it.’ I love. ”

“I feel very lucky Because he is one of my best friends now; It is rare, but it is a link similar to that of Dawson and Joey. He has been in the middle for so long, he helped me a lot, I respect him as a friend and as a professional ”, were the words that Holmes chose a while ago to explain his link with Jackson.

Last year, Holmes admitted that although every so often he talks to his former partners, he was not aware nor is it part of the WhatsApp group that they formed a long time ago. “We all sent messages from time to time, but I didn’t know that WhatsApp existed. Do you know what? I am very bad with WhatsApp. I never check it because it is too much,” he defended.

Jackson and Holmes met in 1998 When both were chosen by Kevin Williamson to film Dawson’s Creek. The crush was fast and the relationship lasted a year, until 1999. While the couple broke, they continued working together and managed to maintain a good link until the program ended, in 2003.

After several years away, Jackson approached Holmes when she turned away from the Church of Scientology and divorced Tom Cruise. “It’s as if you will find a friend of a lifetime, we talked on the phone and we update,” said the actor, whom Holmes told how it is to be a single mother of his daughter, Suri Cruise. “It was very nice to talk to her,” he said. In March 2018, both gathered for cameras for a special production of Entertainment Weekly.

Although they never showed together again, in 2016 rumors circulated about a possible second chance among the actors. It was in the magazine Life & Style where the first versions were published, although the actress insisted that the relationship was nothing more than a deep friendship, and that Jackson was the first to find out, of Holmes’ mouth, about her separation from the protagonist of Impossible mission.

After breaking with Cruise, Holmes maintained a long and secret relationship with the actor Jamie Foxx, from whom he finally separated in August 2018. Jackson, on the other hand, was ten years as a boyfriend with the German actress Diane Kruger-between 2006 and 2016-, married the model and British actress Jodie Turner-Smith in 2018, with whom he had a daughter and He divorced later, in 2023, and maintained a brief, but publicized romance with the winner of an Oscar Lupita Nyong’o.