How Paula Patton Moved On After Her Devastating Divorce

Patton, meanwhile, had made a name for herself in Hollywood with movies including Hitch, Déjà Vu, Swing Vote, Precious and Jumping the Broom, and she had three movies come out in 2013, Disconnect, 2 Guns and Baggage Claim. Thicke then had the biggest hit of his career in 2013 with his sixth studio album, Blurred Lines, and its mega-hit title track.

He had been a successful recording artist for almost the entirety of their life together, but that vaulted him into mainstream-pop, song-of-the-summer, he's-everywhere territory. And his relationship suffered for it.

Thicke would reveal later in a court deposition for a copyright lawsuit that he was rarely sober during that period, that he was high on Vicodin and alcohol when he and Pharrell Williams recorded "Blurred Lines" and "didn't do a sober interview" in 2013.

He had told Oprah Winfrey in the fall of 2013 that, in a partnership as enduring as his and Patton's, "you pretty much take it one day at a time. The one thing I've realized about loving somebody is, you have to love them every day...People are changing every day—their thoughts, their desires, their insecurities change every day."

That moment in his career was better even than he could have dreamed, Thicke said, "because I still have the girl. I would be lost without her, you know, I would. Because it is a lot and there are girls throwing themselves at you everywhere you go, and you can really lose touch with any sense of reality when you're a big rock-star kind of thing, you know."

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