In 1999, Julia Roberts starred as the female lead in The Runaway Bride — a role for which she was well-suited. In the early '90s, Roberts acquired real-life experience as, well, a runaway bride. In July 1991, People reported that 23-year-old Roberts and 24-year-old actor Kiefer Sutherland's nuptials would be "the fantasy wedding of the decade." But, just two days before their wedding was set to take place, Roberts called it off.
"I think she had courage," Sutherland revealed in an interview (via Hello! Magazine) some 25 years later. "It wasn't what she wanted to do in the end. And it think it took a lot of courage, in amongst all of that other stuff, to be able to say, I can't do this." He continued, saying, "She was arguably the most famous woman in the world, and this wedding that was supposed to be something between the two of us, became something so big." Although they never got back together, both Roberts and Sutherland have gone on to find love again with other people.
