Val Kilmer and His One True Love: The Tragic Story with Joanne Whalley

He was an icon of the '90s — Top Gun, Batman, The Ghost and the Darkness. The voice, the stare, the presence. But behind the scenes? His heart belonged to one woman — Joanne Whalley, his co-star in Willow. The couple married in 1988. Whalley stepped away from acting, to raise two children with Kilmer — a daughter, Mercedes, born in October 1991, and a son, Jack, born in June 1995. But, like something out of a Hollywood script, things didn’t go as planned. Whalley filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences, and by 1996, they were officially separated. Val never remarried. And even years later, he spoke warmly of her.