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It’s been nearly 12 years since Philip Seymour Hoffman tragically handed away on the age of 46.
So nobody begrudges her her proper to maneuver on with a brand new companion.
However loads of people are wishing she’d picked somebody much less problematic than the controversial comic Louis CK.
Louis C.Ok. performs in the course of the 2025 New York Comedy Competition on the Beacon Theatre on November 14, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Michael Loccisano/Getty Photographs)
Sure, in keeping with a brand new report by the Day by day Mail, CK was noticed kissing Mimi O’Donnell on a New York Metropolis avenue nook this week.
In our headline, we referred to O’Donnell as Hoffman’s widow, which isn’t technically true, as they by no means tied the knot.
However they’d been collectively for 15 years on the time of his loss of life, they usually had three youngsters collectively, together with actor Cooper Hoffman.
Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman and girlfriend Mimi O’Donnell arrive at The Orange British Academy Movie Awards (BAFTAs) on the Odeon Leicester Sq. on February 19, 2006 in London, England. (Photograph by Chris Jackson/Getty Photographs)
Lately, O’Donnell made headlines by turning into one of many first public figures in New York to help Zohran Mamdani’s profitable mayoral marketing campaign.
“I love a progressive candidate. He’s got the energy. I love free child care, free buses,” she advised the New York Submit in April. In 2018, she opened up about dropping Hoffman to an overdose in a shifting essay for Vogue.
“It’s been almost four years since Phil died, and the kids and I are still in a place where that fact is there every day. We talk about him constantly, only now we can talk about him without instantly crying,” she wrote, including:
“We are able to discuss him in a approach that feels as if there’s a remembrance of what occurred to him, however that additionally honors him.
“We talk about his bad sides and his good sides, what he did that was funny and what he did that was crazy, and what he did that was loving and tender and sweet. We open up, and it brings us together and keeps his spirit alive.”
Louis C.Ok. attends FX Networks celebration of their Emmy nominees in partnership with Vainness Honest at Craft on September 16, 2017 in Century Metropolis, California. (Photograph by Rachel Murray/Getty Photographs for Vainness Honest)
As for CK, properly — he’s made headlines for various causes in recent times.
As you could recall, CK was “canceled” amid sexual assault allegations again in 2017.
Within the years since, he’s rebranded with a darker, edgier model humor that’s led him to some fairly bizarre locations.
And whereas CK ultimately apologized for mocking survivors of the Parkland college capturing, he’s not the progressive comedian he as soon as was.
So it’s not laborious to see why many followers of Hoffman’s aren’t loopy about this match — however on the finish of the day, it’s Mimi’s resolution.
