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Actress Hilary Swank, who won two Academy Awards for her performances in Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby, is divorcing her husband of eight years Chad Lowe, a spokesperson for the couple confirmed.
“Hilary Swank and Chad Lowe have jointly decided to divorce,” an attorney for the couple, Jeffrey A. Bernstein, told the magazine in a story posted on its Web site Friday. “They continue to be friends and have the utmost respect for one another.”

Thirty-one-year-old Swank and 38-year-old Lowe, who have no children, had a painful breakup in January, following which Swank said she and her husband were working towards saving their marriage. “Hilary and Chad have decided to separate. They are hopeful they’ll be able to get through this tough time,” her publicist had said when the couple separated.
“Hilary and Chad have decided to separate, but they are hopeful they’ll be able to get through this tough time,” Nankin then said in a statement.

Swank famously forgot to thank a tearful Lowe while accepting her best actress Oscar in 2000 for “Boys Don’t Cry.” Last year, Swank won again for “Million Dollar Baby” — this time, thanking Lowe.

Swank and Lowe were married in 1997, five years after they set eyes on each other at an Hollywood Athletic Club event in 1992. “I went to a party with Leonardo DiCaprio, and Chad was there. We just started talking,” Swank had said while recalling the beginning of their relationship. “It was like the old cliché where you see somebody, lock eyes across the room, and time stands still. I said, “I would love just to take you to lunch”. Then I worked my way up to dinner. We had lunch, we had dinner and then some,” Lowe had reminisced.