Addison Timlin, Jeremy Allen White’s Ex, Says Boyfriend Cooper Raiff ‘Saved My Life’

Addison Timlin is celebrating her boyfriend Cooper Raiff’s twenty eighth birthday.

Timlin penned a heartfelt birthday tribute to the director with a Tuesday, Feb. 11, Instagram publish. The Hal & Harper actress, 33, added pictures of Raiff all through their relationship, in addition to pictures of him along with her and Jeremy Allen White’s daughters: Ezer Billie White, 6, and Dolores Wild White, 4. 

“Blissful birthday to the oldest man who has ever lived. I’m sure your soul is as shocked to search out you in a younger and robust physique on a regular basis as I’m. Fortunate for me and the world, you’re right here for one more go round,” she started within the caption. 

“I’ve these very clear photographs of you continuously floating in my mind, issues I’m positive will flash earlier than my eyes in the long run however they by no means go away. Nearly as if my mind is saying ‘I do know we left them there nevertheless it’ll nonetheless be a shock once you see the way in which we put them collectively on the finish.’ One thing about remembering and forgetting and the way these two can turn into the identical factor in case you don’t look intently sufficient, or in case you don’t cease to pay attention,” she continued.  

“If you end up about to cry, your lip shakes and I routinely/involuntarily begin to cry too. It jogs my memory of being a baby, after I noticed my mom cry, when my antennae’s had been pulled to frequencies nobody else was feeling. I’ve spent most of my grownup life attempting to cease that kind of bleeding, solely to search out it wasn’t blood in any respect: it was simply love.”

“A tough wire to really feel and see the world for what it was, to know ache and pleasure and really feel it as my very own. To really feel life cross by way of me like a tidal wave.” 

“I by no means met anybody like me till I met you,” she wrote. “How light and treasured to be understood. How earth shattering and life affirming to face subsequent to somebody and know they’re feeling the identical factor.” 

Timlin then celebrated Raiff’s extra private moments, when he’s dancing, foolish and loud. “Once I see you and assume ‘like a duck within the water.’ ”

“I like to know who you might be and to be near it. Thanks for letting me huge and small and messy and anxious, and loving and true,” she added. “It has saved my life.” 

As she continued she thanked him for displaying her issues she doesn’t “wish to reside with out,” together with Jersey Mikes, The Cheesecake Manufacturing facility and Luka Doncic. 

“You’re different worldly and so vital, leaving an indelible mark on all the things you contact. Steering your antennas in the direction of grace and therapeutic and the key issues all of us have at all times recognized,” she wrote, earlier than concluding, “You’re my ghost. I really like you.”

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Timlin’s social media publish is her first to reference her relationship with Raiff. She filed for divorce from White in Could 2023.

Timlin and Raiff labored on his newest challenge, the TV sequence Hal & Harper, which he created, wrote, and acts in. Mark Ruffalo, Lili Reinhart, Betty Gilpin, Alyah Chanelle Scott and Havana Rose Liu additionally star.

After the sequence premiered on the Sundance Movie Pageant in January, Timlin posted an Instagram celebrating the screening, praising Raiff’s work and revealing she had fallen in love with the sequence’ creator. The present remains to be in search of distribution.