I'm getting verklempt...It's OVAH, Part Shrek

Mike Myers and his wifey are getting divorced. And right around the holidays? Can the timing be any worse?


The Myers split from wife Robin Ruzan was announced Friday by his publicist. No reason was given, just the promise, as expressed by rep Ina Treciokas in a statement, that the pair "remain committed and caring friends." Myers, 42, and Ruzan, about 41, per IMDb.com, wed in 1993, one year before the comic left Saturday Night Live and moved onto movie fame in the Austin Powers and Shrek franchises.

A writer and occasional actress, Ruzan is best known as the daughter of Linda Richman, who as played by Myers in drag on SNL, frequently became verklempt (i.e., choked up) while hosting "Coffee Talk." The Myers-Ruzan union was a low-profile one, attracting scant attention from the tabloids. In 2004, the New York Daily News, however, did note "whispers that their marriage [was] faltering." Myers and Ruzan met at a Chicago Blackhawks-Toronto Maple Leafs hockey game in 1987. At the time, he was a Canadian-born Second City performer; she was a Windy City resident--and errant-puck victim.

Sometime after the game, Myers informed the Toronto Second City troupe that he wanted to move to Chicago. "'Why do you want to work [there]? You're doing so well in Toronto,'" Second City producer emeritus Joyce Sloane told Myers, she once recounted for CNN. "He said because I'm desperately in love." [Yahoo]