Celebs Who Got Hitched Way Too Young (2 of 3)

LeAnn Rimes and Dean Sheremet

Singer LeAnn Rimes married Dean Sheremet in 2002 when she was only 19 years old. This one is a little more positive, as the marriage lasted seven years before they announced they were getting a divorce. Apparently Rimes had an affair with Eddie Cibrian, which does sound plausible as Cibrian’s wife, Brandi Glanville, announced at exactly the same time that she was divorcing him.

Sheremet discussed his split with Rimes on an episode of Personal Space, saying that it was devastating but also provided him with the biggest growth of his life. He was 21 when the pair got hitched so again, perhaps a little too young to take on such a big commitment, and he mentioned how he didn’t really know himself at that age. However, he did concede “We were in love, and it was the right thing at the time.”

Rimes herself later wrote a song about her marriage to Sheremet, and specifically her cheating on him. It was called “What Have I Done”. She told Karie Couric that she carried a lot of guilt for what she did.

Solange Knowles and Daniel Smith

Beyonce’s sister Solange was a baby at 17 when she married her high school lover Daniel Smith, who himself was 19 at the time. They had a small ceremony in the Bahamas, attended by close friends and family. Only a year later Knowles was giving birth to the couple’s son, Daniel Julez J Smith Jr. The family then moved to Moscow, Idaho, where Smith, a football player, was still attending college.

However, like all of the stories here, it ended in tragedy when the couple announced in 2007 that they were separating. Knowles spilt the beans in an interview with Essence, and she later told Elle magazine that the move to Idaho was the straw that broke the camel’s back. “It was a bittersweet moment,” she said, “I was isolated and lonely and I needed to get out.”

Knowles said she didn’t regret marrying Smith, despite the subsequent divorce. She loved having a child at a young age and told Harper’s Bazaar seven years later in 2014 that she “feels older than 27 in a lot of ways. Going through both a marriage and divorce by 21 gives you such an insane perspective on life.” Amen, girl.

Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson

Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson knew each other for four years before they got married. They actually met on the set of The Harrad Experiment when Griffith was still a child at 14, with Johnson eight years her senior at 22.

So, four years later they were married, but it was an extremely short affair with the divorce papers being issued only six months later. The Hollywood Reporter took the scoop this time, with Griffith telling them the marital problems were down to drug and alcohol addictions – on both sides. She was sad that the marriage ended and told the outlet that “He was the most beautiful person I’d ever seen in my entire life.” Her mom wasn’t so keen, though, and she told the publication she had been in sheer panic when she discovered her young baby had fallen for such an older man.

Ten years later though, the pair got back together. 1989 saw the couple remarry and then quickly have a daughter. You may have heard of her: they named her Dakota Johnson. Still, this time, while it did last some years, they again separated in March of 1994. Then they got back together, again, later that year. Then they separated, again, in May 1995, officially divorcing in 1996.

Exhausting stuff, eh? Unsurprisingly, in a 2018 interview with InStyle, Griffiths claimed that marriage doesn’t mean all that much these days and “isn’t relevant”. Shock, horror.