This September, Billy Baldwin and Chynna Phillips will celebrate 30 years of marriage — but according to the actor, it’s taken a lot of work to get them to this milestone.
During an interview to promote his new film, No Address, Baldwin, 62, exclusively told Us Weekly about building a relationship that spans decades. “It requires something that has nothing to do with you, and that’s luck and chemistry,” he shared. “A lot of times, aspects of chemistry are manufactured and created, and some are not. They’re either there or they’re not.”
“I remember holding my wife in my arms when I first met her and I’d whisper to her, ‘Do you feel that?’” Baldwin continued. “And she would look up [with] tears streaming down her cheeks [and say] ‘Yeah.’ It was the energy and chemistry and love, you know?”
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“The other thing is, you have to work to build things that you share because there’s so many things in a relationship that you don’t,” the Northern Rescue alum continued. “[Chynna and I] compartmentalized our relationship — she’s got entire departments of her life that I have very little to do with and support, and I have that too.”
Baldwin and the Wilson Phillips singer, 57 — who share children Jameson, Vance, and Brooke — met in 1991 and have been married since 1995. In that time, they’ve navigated various hurdles: In 2010, Phillips filed for divorce before withdrawing the papers days later, and in November 2024, she announced they were living apart. (One month later, Phillips “reneged” on her statement.)
“You really have to be proactive after 12, 15 years to make sure you’re tending to the garden of your relationship,” Baldwin said. “It’s good to [enjoy] something creative, intellectually stimulating, culturally stimulating or physically stimulating [together].”
Baldwin, who has been open about attending couple’s therapy with his wife, shared that having a therapist encourage them to be honest about one thing they needed, and were not getting, from each other was helpful. “You could [use] it on something simple or you could ask something hard,” he explained. During that session, “She said [what she needed] and I said [what I needed].”
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“I said to my therapist and to Chynna, ‘I don’t even need you to be good at it. You could suck at it. But if I see everyday that … you are trying because you cared enough, it would be so important, not to me, to us,” he continued, noting he and Phillips are like “Ricky and Lucy” — complete opposites. “That’s what I would recommend to couples: Constantly ask the question, ‘What is the one thing?’”
In addition to continuing to build his relationship with his wife, Baldwin is also committed to being of service to those in need — which aligns with No Address, a powerful new film that he stars in. Inspired by true events, the drama sheds light on homelessness.
“People need to understand that we don’t really have a homeless crisis — we have a mental health crisis,” Baldwin told Us of the message behind the movie, which also stars Ashanti and Ty Pennington. (Fifty percent of net proceeds from ticket sales go to nonprofits making an impact in local communities nationwide.) “We are one of the most powerful and affluent countries in history, so we have the ability to improve the situation.”
No Address is playing in theaters now.
