HARRISON FORD, who turned 80 on July 13, was nearly part of Hollywood’s most expensive divorce

Harrison Ford and Melissa Mathison had been together for over two decades

Not only did Mathison walk away with millions in the settlement.

The pair met on the set of Apocalypse Now in 1976, where Mathison was working as a production

At the time Ford was still married to his first wife, and high school sweetheart, Mary Marquardt.

Ford and Marquardt divorced in 1979, after he had starred as Han Solo in the first original Star Wars film.

Mathison and Ford started dating in 1982 and married the following year.

But he wasn’t quite at the level of fame he would accumulate in the years to come.

Mathison had also recently risen to stardom as the screenwriter for 1982 hit E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which would soon become one of the highest grossing films of all time.

The script would earn Mathison her first and only Oscar nomination, although she would lose to John Briley’s Gandhi screenplay.

The couple first separated in the hope that absence would make their hearts grow fonder, and they did end up getting back together for a few months.

This was followed by the announcement of their legal separation and eventually divorce.

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