Who is Wes Bentley’s wife?
Jacqui Swedberg is a producer and also the wife of Wes Bentley. Jacqui Swedberg’s husband Bentley is an American actor who is well known for playing the role of Ricky Fitts in American Beauty. The role earned him a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Supporting Actor. He also played the characters Seneca Crane in The Hunger Games, Doyle in Interstellar, and Erik in Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
How did Wes Bentley and Jacqui Swedberg meet?
How did the two love birds meet and started their relationship? The couple has not given any account of how their love story started. However, Jacqui is the second woman Wes got married to. Bentley was married to actress Jennifer Quanz from 2001 to 2009. The couple called their marriage a quit in 2009 due to Wes’ substance abuse.
He later meet and married producer Jacqui Swedberg in 2010. The couple got married in a beautiful ceremony in the presence of their friends, family, and loved ones. They have a son born in late 2010 and a daughter born in 2014.
Jacqui Swedberg’s husband, Bentley has called love scenes in both film and R-rated TV series like American Horror Story “awkward” since he’s happily married to his wife, Swedberg. “I”m married, so it’s uncomfortable, of course,” Bentley clarified in an interview with People magazine. “It’s tricky. You can laugh about it later, but it’s always uncomfortable for a relationship.” Thankfully, her wife’s entertainment experience allows her to understand the husband.
Career
As said earlier, Wes Bentley’s wife, Jacqui Swedberg is in the entertainment industry just like her husband. She is a producer and also an Assitant Director. According to her IMBD profile, the 36-year-old was the producer of the television series Corner Gas for two years from 2007 to 2009. She was also the assistant director in Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story in 2006. Apart from that, she was also the assistant director in the movie Sleepwalking in 2009 and Lullaby for Pi in 2010. She was also a crew member of The Greims.
Jacqui Swedberg’s husband Wes Bentley
On February 8, 2010, Bentley described his descent into drug addiction, which began almost immediately after his success in American Beauty, in a New York Times article. He claimed he concealed his addiction from his wife; after they divorced in 2006, he moved to an apartment and began doing drugs full-time. During this time, he worked intermittently, only enough to pay bills and buy drugs. His addiction began to cause issues on the sets of the films P2 and Weirdsville, and he was arrested and sentenced to counseling and 12-step programs in 2008. However, he relapsed and “continued using heroin until he was broke.”
In July 2009, Jacqui Swedberg’s husband Wes Bentley said, he took a bold step and confessed to a friend, “I’m a drug addict and an alcoholic, and I need help. I need help or I’m going to die”. He again entered a 12-step program and, while clean since then, considers himself on the path to recovery.
Bentley’s early life as an unknown actor, his sudden fame after American Beauty, his subsequent emotional struggle with fame, and his admission years later that he was recovering from a drug and alcohol addiction are all depicted in the documentary My Big Break (2009). In the Off-Broadway premiere of David Ives’ play Venus in Fur, he began to rebuild his career.
Jacqui and her husband stay away from social media, opting instead to be private with their personal life. Jacqui Swedberg does not have an Instagram account. However, her husband, Bentley remains open in official interviews about his struggles with addiction.
Jacqui Swedberg’s husband, Bentley has been playing rancher Jamie Dutton on Yellowstone since 2018. Per Celebrity Net Worth, Bentley is worth an estimated $3 million. Not much is known about the Net worth of Jacqui Swedberg, she has not shared any information related to her earnings.
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