Former Sex/Life costars Adam Demos and Sarah Shahi have reportedly called it quits after five years of dating.
Demos, 39, and Shahi, 45, pulled the plug on their romance recently, according to Page Six. The alleged split comes two months after Shahi gave a rare update about her relationship with Demos. During a February interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Shahi explained why she would want to work with Demos again after Sex/Life.
“We’re open. We’ve definitely looked at other projects. Nothing has felt right so far, but what’s great about that is that we met as actors. So we have a really great working relationship with each other,” she noted at the time. “Obviously, we have great chemistry. And because we are in a relationship, it’s impossible to lie. I can’t look at him and fake a line. He can’t look at me and do the same.”
Shahi continued: “There’s no tolerance for any sort of bulls***. So I think we do work well with each other, and I would love to find something that he and I could do together.”
The former couple originally met on the set of Sex/Life in August 2020. At the time, Shahi was separated from then-husband Steve Howey, whom she was married to for 11 years. Shahi and Howey, 47, who share three kids together, ultimately finalized their divorce in 2021.
“From the time that our first child was born, our relationship suffered and it was hard to get back on track,” Shahi said of Howey during an April 2023 episode of the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast. “We were together for a very long time. We were together for 18 years. That’s not a failure. That was a long time. But the last 10 years we really did struggle.”
Shahi recalled their dynamic changing after they expanded their family, adding, “Any flaws you have in the relationship before you have kids, if you don’t settle those things — that was my experience of, ‘It gets worse.’ It only gets worse. You have less time for each other, you have less patience, you have less desire because you’re just so damn tired.”
After joining Sex/Life, which was canceled in 2023, Shahi realized she needed to make a change. “I was going through a time where I was really sort of living in a state of unhappiness,” she recalled. “I was just questioning everything. As a wife and as a mom, you get told, ‘Well, but you have it good. You have it good.’ I just felt so unseen. … It gave me the courage to say, ‘I’m not happy. And I feel like we should as individuals have the right to be happy.'”
Shahi clarified that she didn’t start dating Demos immediately after they played love interests.
“We met each other and it was not instant,” she explained. “It was over time, it was getting to know him as a person and seeing how aligned our values were. … I also really respected how he talked about his mom and how he talked about women. There was just so much that I started seeing over time that made me go, ‘Oh, you’re kind of everything I’ve ever wanted.’ And that’s when we started being together.”
Luxury Handbag Shopping has reached out to Demos and Shahi for comment.
