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Johnny and Kate met in 1994 at New York's trendy Café Tabac. The Hollywood hearthrob was 31 and the supermodel was 20. "I knew from the first moment we talked that we were going to be together," Kate has said.
From then on, the pair spent much of their time jetting around the globe, depending on where they were working. Their chemistry was obvious. "They can't keep their hands, lips, mouths, legs off each other," a friend of Johnny's said.
That intensity did sometimes spill over into arguments. In September 1994, Johnny was arrested for criminal mischief having allegedly trashed his hotel room. Police found him in "a state of possible intoxication" while Kate was uninjured. A judge dismissed the charge on the condition that the actor stayed out of trouble for six months – which he did
The couple stayed together for three years, and there were rumours of an engagement. Then, in 1997, they split. However, they did appear briefly at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1998, when Kate made headlines for wearing her bikini in the hallways of the discreet Hotel du Cap.
The end of their romance hit both of them hard. In a candid interview with HELLO! the actor said: "I have never got that emotional over a woman before." He insisted the break-up was his fault, because he'd put his career first. "I have been so stupid because we had so much going for our relationship. I let my work get in the way and I didn't give her the attention I should have done.
"Sure I should care about my movies, but when I get home I should try to leave that stuff behind. I couldn't do that and I was horrific to live with. Trust me, I'm a total moron at times."
Kate, who is notoriously private, later admitted that she had cried "for years" following the split.
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"There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me," she shared.
"And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust. Nightmare. Years and years of crying. Oh, the tears!".
The heartbreak now decades behind them, not much is known about the couple's relationship today. But it is clear that they remain on good terms.
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