Ben Stiller felt disconnected from his family during Christine Taylor separation: Im failing

Ben Stiller is looking back on his separation from his wife, Christine Taylor.In his new documentary, “Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost,” which premiered at the New York Film Festival on Sunday, the “Severance” director, 59, recalled how the couple broke up in 2017 but reconciled a few years later during the COVID-19 pandemic.“My career had been going along for a long time but things actually weren’t great in my personal life,” Ben remembered, per People.“I just felt out of balance and unhappy and kind of disconnected from my family, from my kids and just kind of a little bit lost,” the actor added.Ben, who shares two children, daughter Ella, 23, and son Quinn, 20, with Taylor, 54, said that his parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara’s longtime marriage helped him realize he shouldn’t give up on his wife.“I started to think about my parents and all the stress and tension I remember seeing as a kid and the pressure when they were working together and how they stayed together through it,” he explained: “I think I wanted to somehow understand how they did it.”Ben and Taylor announced their separation in May 2017 after nearly two decades of marriage.“With tremendous love and respect for each other, and the 18 years we spent together as a couple, we have made the decision to separate,” they said in a joint statement at the time.

“Our priority will continue to be raising our children as devoted parents and the closest of friends.We kindly ask that the media respect our privacy at this time.”But the “Dodgeball” co-stars eventually fell back in love while living together with their kids during lockdown.

“All of a sudden we were together in the house and during that time I started to make the movie too,” Ben said in the doc.“So there sort of this coming together.

Us talking about what we were going through, our issues, and looking at what my parents had been through too in a way I hadn’t looked at it before.”During ano...