While some of the celebrity relationships from years past ultimately sound like lucky escapes, others make Us feel a little sad. And the romance between Renée Zellweger and Jim Carrey definitely falls into the second category — way back when, it seemed like these two were really in love and a great, quirky match. So, what went wrong? Let’s find out …

How it Began

Yes, of course it started as a movie set romance, or at least a movie set crush — and in this case, the set was 1999’s Me, Myself & Irene. The movie’s producer Bobby Farrelly told People in 2000 that Carrey, then 37, “flipped for her immediately” but Zellweger, then 30, took a little longer to warm up.

“I liked him, a lot, but you’re not going (to the set) for the love connection,” she told CNN in 2000. “When the picture wrappe

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