Remember? 3 days before their wedding, Julia Roberts stood up Kiefer Sutherland

It was going to be the wedding of the year. On the one hand, there was 'America's Bride' Julia Roberts; on the other hand, the 'Rebel Without a Cause' of the new generation of Hollywood, Kiefer Sutherland. The two of them were going to paralyze the world with their wedding.

The actress had just made 'Pretty Woman' and was at the peak of her career. The actor, meanwhile, had established himself with ' The Lost Boys' (1987) and was ready to dominate Hollywood in the coming decades.

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The two stars had met on the set of 'Flatliners' (1990) and the crush was immediate. Before that, Julia Roberts had dated Liam Neeson and Dylan McDermott, with whom she also got engaged.

However, everything pointed to the fact that the first husband of 'America's Bride' would be Kiefer Sutherland. The wedding was scheduled for June 1991. However, it would go from being the event of the year to the gossip of the century.

Everything was already prepared: a turkey-shaped wedding cake, aquamarine bridesmaids with matching Manolo Blahnik shoes, and a wedding dress worth more than $7,000, which, for the subsequent ball, would turn into a short-skirt. She would never put it on.

According to Newsweek, tension increased between the two stars due to the growing fame of Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland's jealousy of it. In addition, the actress wanted to invite Jason Patric to the wedding but her future husband didn't even want to see him. It seems he had reasons.

After one of these many fights, Kiefer Sutherland decided to rent a luxury bachelor apartment and spend a night at 'Crazy Girls', a str ip te ase club. There, he met Raven, a dancer who would be the trigger for Julia Roberts' escape.

Beyond that first night, the actor allegedly repeated his dates with Raven several evenings in a row. He also invited Raven for a trip to Disneyland with their children. That was the last straw for Julia Roberts.

"That public humiliation gave Julia Roberts a complex," said Mark Bego in 'Julia Roberts, America's Sweetheart'. "She hasn't been able to trust anyone completely since."

In fact, the actress had to be admitted to a hospital. She cited the flu, but she was actually so depressed that she required medical attention. Afterward, she spent several days in a spa. And that's where Jason Patric came to visit her.

What began as a visit from a friend in a spa led to Julia and Jason fleeing to Ireland as a couple, just 3 days before the wedding. Adam Clayton, the bassist of 'U2', lent them his country house but in the end, paparazzi found them anyway.

Despite the romantic and very 'Hollywood' escape, Julia Roberts and Jason Patric's relationship did not last long. What's more, in 1993, the country singer Lyle Lovett would take the actress to the altar, only to divorce two years later.

In the end, director of photography Danny Moder would give Julia Roberts the romantic stability that she maintains to this day. They met while filming 'The Mexican', got married in 2002, and have three children (Phinnaeus, Hazel, and Benjamin).

Meanwhile, Kiefer Sutherland was involved in a car accident, without serious consequences, after a night out with Gary Oldman who, at that time, was more 'Gary Youngman'.

Over the years, Kiefer Sutherland has seen how time heals all wounds. While he began his breakup with Julia Roberts thinking he wanted to tear off Jason Patric's arms and legs, he later assumed his share of the blame for what happened in 1991.

"I commend Julia for seeing how young and silly we were, even at the last minute, even as painful and difficult as it was. Thank God she saw it," the actor told Oprah Winfrey.

And that's how 'The Wedding of the Year' became 'The Story of the Century'. And yes, in 1999 Julia Roberts recorded 'Runaway Bride', a role for which she did not have to prepare too much since she already knew what the matter was about. Hollywood History.

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