After Rumors Spread About Their Split, Mila Kunis And Ashton Kutcher Shared An Unexpected Video

Yes, after the couple was plagued by speculation that they had split, they posted a scathing video on Instagram. And their discussions in the clip have left the internet stunned. It was even a surprise that Kunis and Kutcher replied in the first place, given that they’re both very private people – for Hollywood stars, anyway.

But Kunis and Kutcher go way back. Remember That ’70s Show? Then you probably recall the actress playing Jackie Burkhart and her now-husband as Michael Kelso. And the two were lucky to have met in the first place. You see, when the show first started shooting, Kunis was just 14 years old.

Yes, Kunis had been... well, let’s just say, economical with the truth when it came to her age. Basically, the casting director on That ’70s Show had only wanted to employ actors who were 18 and over. So, Kunis simply said that she would soon be 18. And by the time the show’s bosses discovered her true age, they’d already fallen for her talent.

We wouldn’t advocate lying, but it seemed to work out for Kunis! She was chosen to play Jackie and seemingly embraced everything that the role threw at her. This included having her very first smooch on the TV show with none other than – you guessed it – Kutcher himself. But the actor apparently didn’t realize that he was going to be the first person Kunis would kiss.

In 2001 Kunis recalled her reaction to learning that she would have to smooch Kutcher as part of the show. Speaking to Insider, she said, “I was like, ‘Oh, he’s so cute, it’s the Calvin Klein model!’ Then I was like, ‘I have to kiss him?’ I was so nervous and uncomfortable. I had the biggest crush on him.”

But despite Kunis’ crush on Kutcher, the five-year age gap between the actors seemed too wide to bridge back then. In 2012 their That ’70s Show castmate Kurtwood Smith explained to E! News, “They played boyfriend and girlfriend, but they had completely separate lives… Mila was a kid. That was awkward for Ashton at the beginning. He was like 19, and she was like 14 or 15.”

In fact, Kutcher would later admit that he and Kunis had more of a brother-sister relationship when they were castmates. So when Kutcher left That ’70s Show in 2005, he and Kunis basically went their separate ways. While the two kept in contact and sometimes crossed paths at showbiz events, there was apparently nothing romantic between them.

Both Kunis and Kutcher were also in long-term relationships with other people. Kutcher married actress Demi Moore in 2005, while Kunis had been dating former child star Macaulay Culkin since 2002. However, in 2011 the former co-stars both found themselves single once again.

And Kunis and Kutcher reunited in 2012 when they were both handing out prizes at the Golden Globes. It was there that Kunis found herself looking at the actor in a different way. In 2018 she explained on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast, “I thought it was the weirdest thing that I was checking this guy out, and it was someone that I had known forever.”

Still, Kunis must have been stoked when Kutcher invited her to his upcoming housewarming party in the Hollywood Hills. And while Kutcher had actually been planning to set his former co-star up with one of his buddies, things took a different turn. Yep, it was here that Kunis and Kutcher finally got together!

The couple even shared their first off-screen smooch, as Kutcher recalled to Elle in 2017. “I think I was smoking cigarettes at the time, and I was still a smoker,” he said. “And [Mila] had quit smoking and she was like, she wanted me to like shotgun a cigarette smoke so she could breathe it in, and I was like, ‘All right.’”

Kutcher continued, “I started doing this. And gradually through the night, it got closer and closer and closer… It was kind of obvious that things were happening.” To begin with, though, the pair believed that their first off-screen kiss was an error. Kunis told Elle, “We ended up having a lot of talks about how this is a huge mistake and how he needs to go and be single, and I need to go and be single.”

Despite that little pep talk, it seems that Kunis and Kutcher simply couldn’t stay away from each other. Kunis later told Maron, “I did a movie called Friends With Benefits. [Ashton] did a movie that was very similar called No Strings Attached. We lived our movies out. We were just like, ‘Let’s just hook up. Let’s have fun.’”

Did life imitate art? Sort of. It turns out that the pair couldn’t keep things casual after all! In April 2012 – after a few months of hooking up – they had even started living with each other. Kutcher then filed for divorce from Moore in December 2012, and in November 2013 the split was finalized.

Now that Kutcher was officially a single man, he and Kunis wasted no time in getting engaged. That news was confirmed in February 2014 when Kunis was seen sporting a telling rock on her ring finger. And the actress had yet another big life moment to share when she appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that May.

During her time on set, Kunis revealed that she and Kutcher were expecting their first child. Aww! But just like other expectant moms, she had some odd cravings – in her case, for sauerkraut and pickles. And, apparently, Kutcher was keeping the couple’s home stocked up with all the weird foodstuffs Kunis could possibly want.

Happily, Kunis and Kutcher welcomed their first child – a girl named Wyatt Isabelle Kutcher – in October 2014. And when Kunis appeared again on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2015, she opened up about Kutcher’s parenting skills. Basically? He was “a master swaddler.” Kunis added of her fiancé, “He can swaddle anyone’s baby. Like if your baby needs to be swaddled, he will do it… Call him. He is a pro!”

The next step for Kunis and Kutcher? They tied the knot in Oak Glen, California, in July 2015. Not long after that, they welcomed their second baby, a son named Dimitri Portwood Kutcher. And in March 2017 Kunis confirmed that she and Kutcher felt as though they were complete as a family of four.

Kunis told Entertainment Tonight, “We’re good on two right now. [With two kids], you’re running defense a little bit. Like, one’s got one and the other’s got one, and it’s okay. I think it’s when it becomes three is when you’re like, you’re just playing offense… You’re scrambling trying to keep them all in line.” Plenty of moms with three kids will know what that feels like!

But aside from speaking out during the occasional interview, Kunis and Kutcher prefer to keep their family life out of the public eye. And the duo are especially guarded about their children’s privacy. In 2015 they even sued the Daily Mail after the newspaper published photographs of their daughter.

And two years after the court case, Kutcher took to Twitter to remind people and the press to respect his kids’ right to confidentiality. “I continue to kindly ask, please don’t post/publish photos of our kids,” he said. “They haven’t chosen a life in the public eye. Yes, we took them to a public place (we like sharing life with our kids). No, that doesn’t mean we are [okay] with their photos being published.”

Kunis has admitted, too, that she never actively reads stories written about her. She can’t escape them entirely, as she spots rumors about Kutcher and her on the front of magazines at the grocery store. But for the most part, the actress seems generally capable of ignoring all the gossip.

In 2018 Kunis told Cosmopolitan, “I genuinely don’t know what’s written about me. Other than I know that I’m pregnant about once a year, and my husband and I are getting a divorce once a year. I know this because I go down the grocery store aisle, and I see it on the cover of magazines, and I’m like, ‘Oh boy, okay!’”

But while Kunis can mostly turn a blind eye to this kind of speculation, she has admitted that the tabloid rumors do have an effect on her family. She added to Cosmopolitan, “The only thing that’s upsetting is [that] my parents and my grandparents sometimes get confused.”

And Kunis recalled a particularly worrying story that had been written about her – one that had had a bad impact on her nearest and dearest. She told Cosmopolitan, “At one point when I was pregnant, [the tabloids] said that I had an emergency and was rushed to the hospital, and my face was on the cover. The amount of stress that caused my family... nobody will understand.”

How does Kunis cope with these rumors? Well, in June 2019 she and Kutcher joined forces to battle the gossip written about their relationship. And in a video posted to Kutcher’s Instagram page, the couple specifically took aim at In Touch Weekly. That’s because the magazine had claimed that the couple were calling time on their marriage.

The edition of In Touch Weekly in question was dated July 1, 2019. Ominously, it featured an image of Kunis seemingly fiddling with her ring finger. There was also a smaller photograph of Kutcher on the cover, showing the actor looking particularly glum. And to top it all off? The headline on the front blared “It’s Over!”

In Touch Weekly’s sensational splash also stated, “She felt suffocated” – presumably referring to Kunis. And that wasn’t all. The magazine similarly alluded to “the lie that destroyed everything” and claimed, “Mila takes the kids.” There was a reference to a “$400 million divorce shocker,” too, and a promise that “Ashton’s dark secrets” would be “exposed.”

Was this really true? Were Kunis and Kutcher in the middle of a nasty split? Well, no. And the couple weren’t going to take the speculation lying down. So they decided to film a video of themselves mocking the In Touch Weekly cover. Then they shared the footage on social media.

In the clip, which appears to have been shot in a car, Kutcher asks Kunis, “Babe, what’s happening? What’s going on?” In response to her husband’s question, Kunis turns her phone towards the camera to reveal the In Touch Weekly cover. “It’s over between us,” she declares, while somehow managing to keep a straight face.

Faking a surprised reaction, Kutcher replies, “It’s over between us?” Kunis then nods her head and says, “Yeah.” It appears that the rumored break-up comes as news to Kutcher, as he then asks, “Oh my god, what are we going to do?” But Kunis stands by the story, telling him seriously – well, sort of – “I felt suffocated.”

And Kutcher pretends to understand where the rumors have come from. He jokes, “You felt suffocated by me? Oh, I was just so overbearing, wasn’t I?” Kunis seemingly agrees. To hammer the point further, she adds, “Also, I took the kids.” The deadpan expression on her face is practically Oscar-worthy by itself!

Becoming animated once more, Kutcher replies, “Oh, you took the kids? I don’t get the kids anymore?” Again reading from the cover of the magazine, Kunis explains, “But you had a very dark secret exposed.” Kutcher fakes shock and continues sarcastically, “Oh, my gosh! What was the dark secret? Must have been really dark.”

But Kunis is unable to reveal what Kutcher’s dark secret” happens to be. So, she says, “I don’t know.” Then, referring once more to the In Touch Weekly cover, the actress adds, “I only have this photo!” At this point in proceedings, Kunis turns to the camera and breaks her serious demeanor with a smile, confirming that she and Kutcher were joking all along.

And Kutcher delivered one final parting shot to In Touch Weekly when he uploaded the clip to Instagram. In the caption to the post, he wrote, “I guess it’s over, @intouchweekly. Have fun selling magazines this week. Maybe next week my wife will be having twins. For the third time. But who’s counting?” Ouch!

It’s fair to say that Kunis and Kutcher’s hilarious takedown video was well received on Instagram. In a matter of weeks, the couple’s clip attracted more than five million views and a whole host of – largely supportive – comments. Some of those messages even came from Kunis and Kutcher’s fellow celebrities.

In the comments below Kutcher’s Instagram video, actor and podcaster Dax Shepard joked that the break-up rumors had led him to believe he’d had a shot with Kunis. “DAMMIT!!! I was gonna take a run at M.K.! I want a refund!” he wrote. Demi Lovato also approved, commenting, “This is amazing. Miss y’all.”

And Kutcher and Kunis even received some support from Kutcher’s former step-daughter Rumor Willis. The actress – whose parents are Demi Moore and Bruce Willis – posted a series of facepalm emojis alongside the hashtag, “#fakenews.” Modern Family actress Sarah Hyland – who has been described as Kunis’ doppelgänger – also joked, “I knew it.”

So, Kunis and Kutcher’s relationship? It’s still going strong in spite of all those rumors in the press. And while having to deal with tabloids and gossip columns is just part and parcel of being famous, at least the couple have their shared sense of humor to help them laugh off any unsavory speculation.