Just over a month after announcing that she and fellow actor Sacha Baron Cohen had filed for divorce in late 2023, Isla Fisher has resurfaced and thanked fans for their support during a time of transition in her personal life.
“Thank you for all the kindness and support,” Fisher wrote in her Instagram Story Tuesday, adding a playful kissy face emoji. The message of gratitude was sent out alongside a photo of a smiling Fisher in minimal makeup, seated in front of a tree, the rim of a wine glass just visible in a lower corner of the frame.
While Fisher did also share a photo of herself in a blazer on her grid two weeks ago, captioned “BTS Dogman” in reference to an in-progress project, Tuesday’s brief missive is a rare personal sentiment since the couple shared their serious personal news, albeit in a playful manner.
In early April, both Fisher and Baron Cohen released a joint statement on their own Instagram Stories depicting the couple in tennis whites, mugging for the camera.
“After a long tennis match lasting over twenty years, we are finally putting our racquets down. In 2023 we jointly filed to end our marriage,” the statement read. “We have always prioritized our privacy, and have been quietly working through this change. We forever share in our devotion and love for our children. We sincerely appreciate your respecting our family’s wish for privacy.”
The two wed in 2010, and share three children. They had been a couple since 2001.
Fisher, 48, has credited Baron Cohen, 52, in the past for encouraging her to seek out more comedic roles. Baron Cohen is a longtime comic, perhaps best known for Borat.
“Sacha was the reason I got into comedy,” she told People in 2020. “I was going up for a lot of dramatic roles and getting rejected. He said, ‘You’re one of the funniest people I know. You should be doing comedy.’”
The two have also worked on projects together including 2016’s The Brothers Grimsby, the film that Rebel Wilson, also in the cast, called “the worst professional experience of my career” in an interview in April around the release of her memoir, in addition to singling Baron Cohen out as a “massive asshole.” Producers on the film have denied Wilson’s claims about the on-set atmosphere in statements to Vanity Fair.
Fisher and Baron Cohen announced that they had divorced shortly after Wilson’s claims made headlines.
