Hugh Jackman has spent two years navigating one of the messiest Hollywood divorces in recent memory. Now, according to multiple sources, he is doing so with growing fury — and he has a specific target for his anger.

"Hugh's becoming increasingly angry over the feeling that more and more people in Hollywood are quietly turning against him," a source told Globe in May 2026. "He blames Deb for it 100% and says there's been a steady drip of poison behind the scenes from her and her camp."

Here is everything that has happened to bring one of Hollywood's most beloved figures to this point.

The Marriage That Ended After 27 Years

Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness announced their separation in September 2023 after nearly three decades of marriage. Their joint statement was carefully worded — "individual growth," mutual respect, no blame attached publicly. The marriage had produced two adopted children, Oscar and Ava. For years, it had been held up as one of Hollywood's most solid partnerships.

The careful language of the separation statement began to unravel in 2025, when Furness gave an interview describing what she called a "traumatic journey of betrayal." That phrase — pointed, specific, unretracted — landed hard in Hollywood circles and has colored perceptions of Jackman ever since.

The Sutton Foster Situation

In January 2025, Jackman confirmed his relationship with Broadway star Sutton Foster, 51, his co-lead in the 2022-2023 revival of The Music Man on Broadway. The timing — a romance that apparently began during the run of that show, while Jackman was still married — is the core of what Furness's "betrayal" comment referred to, according to sources. Jackman has not addressed the infidelity allegations directly.

At the 2026 Met Gala, Jackman and Foster walked the carpet together for the first time as a confirmed couple. It was, by any measure, a significant public step.

Nicole Kidman's Choice

Also at the 2026 Met Gala: Nicole Kidman, serving as co-chair of the event. Kidman and Jackman have been friends for decades — they starred together in Baz Luhrmann's Australia in 2008 and have moved in the same Australian-in-Hollywood circles for years.

But Kidman and Furness go back even further. According to sources, Kidman has been a shoulder for Furness through the divorce — and at the Met Gala, she made her position visible. "Nicole is firmly Team Deb," an insider told Rob Shuter's Naughty But Nice Substack. "She isn't interested in pretending otherwise just because Hugh showed up with a new woman on his arm. Deb's 'betrayal' comment was not forgotten in Hollywood."

Kidman reportedly avoided Jackman and Foster at the Gala entirely. She was co-chairing the most photographed event in fashion. The avoidance was, sources say, deliberate and noted.

Why Jackman Is Angry

Beyond Kidman, sources say Jackman feels that Naomi Watts, Russell Crowe, and other longtime friends have quietly stepped back from him — and that he attributes this directly to Furness speaking negatively about him in private. "He believes there's been a steady drip of poison," the Globe source said.

The situation is the kind of slow-motion social consequence that is almost impossible to prove or disprove from the outside. What sources consistently describe is a man who expected the divorce to be managed quietly and professionally, and who finds that Furness's public framing of what happened — "betrayal" — has made that impossible.

Furness, Kidman, and Jackman's representatives have all declined to comment publicly on the latest round of reports. The silence on all sides has not slowed the story down.

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