A The White Lotus Cast Member Reportedly Spread a Rumor Walton Goggins Cheated on His Wife With Aimee Lou Wood Before Ongoing Feud
Walton Goggins’ romantic view of life is in full view. The Righteous Gemstones actor has been open about his love life and candid about his work, but some rumors in the past couple of weeks have been raising some eyebrows for The White Lotus fans.
Interactions between him and his The White Lotus co-star Aimee Lou Wood made fans speculate that they have an ongoing feud. Despite him praising his on-screen love interest (He wrote in a caption: Thank you Aimee Lou for being my partner… a journey I will never forget.), the two don’t follow each other on Instagram, and haven’t really interacted since the finale.
Gossip Instagram account Deuxmoi fueled affair rumors after an anonymous source sent in a a blind item stating, “A certain cast member on the new season of white lotus has been going around saying that two actors who a [sic] play the iconic couple this season (younger girl), had an affair on set. Would be very awkward when the actors wife would come to set to visit…” The actor who incited the rumors and the subjects haven’t been named, but many people believe that the “iconic couple” was Walton and Aimee Lou Wood.
Who is Walton Goggins’ Wife?
Nadia Conners (2011 – present)
Walton Goggins’ current wife is Nadia Conners. The two have been together since 2005 when they were set up on a blind date. The Fallout actor wasn’t aware that they were on a blind date at first because he thought he was attending a friend’s fundraiser dinner. “I didn’t talk to anyone there that I was supposed to talk to, and at the end of it, she said, ‘You’re going to take me home, right?’ ” he recalled to The View. “And I said ‘Uh, yes.’”
The two tied the knot in 2011 and had a son named Augustus, who was born in the same year. Nadia is also an accomplished filmmaker with credits in the Cannes Film Festival-nominated The 11th Hour, and she recently worked on The Uninvited. The family lives in an upstate New York home that used to be a hunting lodge. During their viral Architectural Digest home tour, Nadia said, “Design and art are two of the great love languages. Walt and I find each other in the things that inspire us. Walt doesn’t buy a Porsche; he buys a Kerry James Marshall. That’s what he’ll stretch for.”
“I’m a poor kid from Georgia. How great is it to have our child grow up around art and music and great furniture and all these things that are so life-affirming and expansive,” Walton said of their home.
The filmmaker and their son did stay in Thailand during the filming of The White Lotus, and he even spoiled his character’s ending for her. “It’s the Super Bowl of culture, but I did keep it from my wife,” Goggins told Seth Meyers on Late Night. “I told no one. And about three weeks ago it had gotten to a place where it was just causing me so much anxiety and she was visiting me in Los Angeles, and so I just decided to reenact the last 30 minutes of the show for her, and I did all of it,” he said with a laugh. “I don’t have a lot of dialogue, right?”
“She said you’ve got to do this and you’ve withheld it from me for so long, and what was so cathartic for me was she started to cry and she got wrapped up in these people and this moment and understood what that last moment was. This walking with Chelsea in Rick’s arms, he would have walked for eternity,” the actor said.
Leanne Knight (2001 – 2004)
Walton Goggins was married to Leanne Knight in 2001 until she died by suicide in 2004. The White Lotus actor reflected on the time after her death and how it had eerie parallels to when he was filming the HBO show. “I thought it was really unrecoverable for me,” Goggins told GQ. “Life on the other side of that. And I spent the next three years looking for an excuse—not to end it, but certainly putting myself in situations that were questionable, not with drugs or anything like that, just life experiences and traveling. And I really went all over the world.”
He continued, “We pulled up to this dock, and I was like, I know this dock. What? Okay. Yeah. No. I know this. Oh my God. That’s the room I stayed in 20 years ago. That’s my balcony. That’s where I was the very first day I came here, 20 years ago, and in so much f—ing pain, man.”
“We got out of the boat, and that’s where we were filming, man—all of the equipment was literally right in front of the hotel that I’d picked 20 years ago on the internet, on this little bitty road in this little bitty neighborhood,” he said. “I think I haven’t had the time to fully unpack the symmetry between those two people showing up at the same place, separated by 20 years. And a wife and a kid and peace and all the rest of it.”
When asked if he thinks he’s the same man who went to Thailand to grieve his wife’s death, he answered, “I mean, I thought about that on the day. I thought, God, I wish I could hug that guy. I wish I could whisper in his ear, You’re going to be okay. Life continues, and it continues for everybody if you can just hold on and lean into it and keep walking the walk that you’re walking, and keep looking for the answers.”
