‘Will & Grace’ Star Eric McCormack’s Wife, Janet Leigh Holden, Files For Divorce After 26 Years Of Marriage

Eric McCormack’s wife, Janet Leigh Holden, has filed for divorce from the Will & Grace star after 26 years of marriage.

Holden filed with the Los Angeles County Superior Court on November 22, citing “irreconcilable differences” as the cause for separation. She is seeking spousal support and has requested that the court terminate the actor’s eligibility to be awarded spousal support.

McCormack and Holden met on the set of Lonesome Dove in 1994. The couple married in August 1997 and share one son, 21-year-old Finnigan Holden McCormack.

“I met my wife, Janet, in 1994 on the set of a TV series,” McCormack wrote in an essay for The Guardian in 2007. “I was just coming out of a relationship, and not to be trusted. I’d been dating actresses but Janet was different. She wore jeans, drove a pick-up truck.”

“At first, she wasn’t too keen,” he continued. “She knew actors are a lot of work: it would be like taking your work home with you. But I managed to convince her.”

Neither McCormack nor Holden have commented on their divorce filing.

In 2013, McCormack told uInterview that his character Will would finally have found true love and gotten married. “Oh, he was virtually married in the series finale. I virtually got married to Taye Diggs on the show, and I virtually married Bobby Cannavale on the show,” McCormack told Uinterview. “Will was a reflection of our co-creator Max Mutchnick, who was a guy who wanted to find the right guy and that’s what Max has done and that’s definitely what Will would be doing now [that gay marriage is legal in New York].”