Harry Potter actress Jessie Cave has opened up with brutal honesty about a ‘terrible’ two years with boyfriend Alfie after their secret split, amid fears they might ‘not be a couple forever’
Harry Potter star Jessie Cave has bared her soul over an ‘awful’ two years with boyfriend Alfie Brown after their secret split. The actress-turned-author’s candid confession comes after she launched a brand new podcast which sees her dig deep into their personal life – as she revealed her fears that they could end up breaking up again.
The 38-year-old, who shares four children with Alfie, said the ‘terrible’ time also ‘massively affected her career and self confidence’, in a lengthy and emotional Instagram message.
Jessie, who played Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter films, launched the podcast with her other half Alfie, also 38, who is a stand-up comedian known for his Next Up Comedy series.
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Alfie, son of composer Steve Brown and impressionist Jan Ravens, was “cancelled” in 2023 after old footage which showed him using a racist slur in 2015 came to light, something the performer later apologised for.
He and Jessie – who has her own OnlyFans account, secretly split earlier this year, and Jessie has now opened up on the details of that rocky time. Posting a snap of their son watching Alfie’s stage show on TV followed by other pictures of life at work, she began her caption: “My boyfriend was what is/was called ‘cancelled’ in 2023 on the day our youngest son Becker turned one.”
She went on to reveal, “It was the beginning of a terrible year, two years, actually longer…. I won’t make this about me and tell you how AWFUL it has been to watch the person you love most in the world go through so much pain, public shaming and humiliation…
“Or even how it has massively affected my career and self-confidence too – because he has just put his comedy special about it the whole thing out on YouTube, and it’s getting a brilliant and entirely well deserved response… though it’s not been easy at all to get it out there.”
She added: “I’ve watched him hide away and overthink, lose himself. I watched him do Edinburgh shows in tears at midnight, as he first worked the show out, a few months after everything disintegrated.
“I’ve watched his whole life change in the last three years, losing not only his career but with the shocking deaths of his great friend and director Adam Brace and his wonderful dad Steve Brown… two of the most vital and supportive people to him.“
Her emotional post continued: “I’ve watched as people we thought we could trust betray him. I’ve watched as the theatre we used to love and who we both worked with for over a decade cover up posters of him and act like cowards. I’ve stood by him for it all as I will stand by him forever. But I think the saddest thing of all is that I’ve watched him shy away from gigs when it used to be that being onstage was the most natural thing in the world to him.
“I tried to pick photos from during that time for this post but they were all too bleak. But I like the ones I’ve chosen as he looks so uncertain and scared, yet determined to find a way forwards onstage, telling jokes.” But Jessie, who is also a comedian, then revealed that life is a lot better now, with her other half’s show The Last Cancelled Comedian show now available for free on YouTube.
She explained, “Everything is much better now. He’s back onstage again, we are close to happy (if you listen to our podcast you might know what I mean). I find the show very hard to watch, though I’ve seen it over 10 times. I think it’s incredible and I would love people to watch it. Thank you if you already have. I love you Alfie.”
The pair first met in 2012, when they were both doing stand-up shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and two years later went on a date after a mutual friend set them up.
After going home together, they didn’t see each other again until four months later, when Jessie realised she was expecting Alfie’s child – Donnie, who arrived in October 2014, followed by their daughter two years later. But in 2018 the couple went through a brutal break-up, which they revealed on their new podcast, Before We Break Up Again (BWBUA)
Speaking with The Sunday Times, Jessie revealed that she’s not sure if the pair “will remain a couple for ever”. In October 2020, they had a second son, and in December 2021 announced they were expecting baby number four.
Source: Mirror
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