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if you listen Jan Kaczmarek Talking about her childhood boyfriend turned husband, rusty longin just five minutes, you will believe in love again – trust us.
“I can’t believe I’m back where I started, with this boy I love,” Kaczmarek, 70, said in a statement. The latest issue US Weeklyon newsstands now. “This has been an amazing gift to me…I couldn’t have created a better man for me at this stage in my life.”
Actress — Starring in the Hulu sitcom revival The Malcolms: Life Still Isn’t FairNow Playing – She had been divorced for 15 years when she bumped into her teenage boyfriend, Long, 71, at a high school reunion.
“It’s a carnage, the divorce. It’s really sad. (But) I have three kids, I have great friends,” Kaczmarek – who is married to the TV star Bradley Whitford From 1992 to 2010 – Tell us. “I realized that the love and friendship and support you get from your girlfriends is great, even in divorce, and that was really a great source of love for me. And then meeting my high school boyfriend was just crazy.”
Rusty Long and Jane Kaczmarek attend the premiere of “Malcolms: Life Is Still Not Fair” on April 7, 2026
Stephanie Augello/Disney via Getty ImagesThe actress’s best friend was married to Long’s best friend, which led to the four having dinner together after a high school reunion.
“Having dinner with him 50 years later, when he touched my back, I was instantly transported back to a 15-year-old girl kissing this boy I liked,” she told me us glad to. “When you’re 70, it’s a magical and exciting thing.”
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The two first dated when they were students at Greendale High School in Wisconsin. After graduation, Long went on to pursue a law degree, while Kaczmarek attended drama school and pursued an acting career.
Fifty years later, the actress is surprised to find that Long is still the same rock-and-roll guy he always was (they attended Led Zeppelin concerts together as teenagers—and yes, “‘Kashmir’ still makes us so passionate about each other,” she says), but she’s equally struck by “how much fun he’s become” over the decades. Standing before her was a thoughtful lawyer with a passion for poetry and Out of Africa.
So she did the only reasonable thing she could do: marry him.
“Hearing him say, ‘I’ve loved you for 52 years,’ was like waking up from a coma,” she told us us. “It sounds corny, but man, it’s awesome.”
The two tied the knot on July 5, 2025, in a barn in Wisconsin, with Kaczmarek’s three children and Long’s children and grandchildren present.
As the couple approaches their one-year wedding anniversary, Kaczmarek still feels like a flirty schoolgirl next to her husband, but getting older has given her an unexpected benefit: “[Our kids]are all grown up.[We]have nothing to think about except each other. Wow, that’s awesome,” she added. “The three words that you think are the most important are ‘I love you,’ and I realized the three words that are the most important to me are ‘Honey, I’m back.'”