During a recent podcast appearance on “PIE With Kurt Sutter and Katey Sagal,” Justin Long, star of “Barbarian,” humorously recounted a memorable mishap during a romantic getaway with his wife, Kate Bosworth. The 46-year-old actor revealed that a bout of food poisoning in Mexico City led to what he described as “comically unloading” in the bed they shared.
“I was hooked up to an IV, and [Kate] was having to follow me to the bathroom with the thing,” Long explained on the podcast episode aired Tuesday. “It was like ‘Dumb and Dumber.’ I was just, like, really comically unloading, and then, at one point that night, I woke up, and there’s no other way to say this, I had shit the bed. I had shit the bed, and she was in the bed.”
Despite the embarrassing situation, Long shared that Bosworth’s response was unexpectedly tender and supportive. “She was, like, two feet away from me with this IV bag,” Long recalled. “And she was holding it so patiently, and she was like: ‘Everything’s fine.’ And I thought about how much I loved her. I was like: ‘I just love this person, I’m so grateful to this person.’”
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Reflecting on the incident, Long expressed admiration for Bosworth’s compassionate reaction. “She was not judging, not making me feel weird, or bad, and I just felt so lucky, you know?” he said. “I was shitting my brains out, and she was looking at me lovingly, and I thought: ‘This is really romantic.’”
Following the mishap, Long managed to clean himself up and recounted how Bosworth encouraged him to take a shower. “You know where all you want to do is be in bed? But I got myself in the shower, I cleaned off, and then she was on the phone with the doctor, and she saw me,” he shared.
While Long didn’t specify when the incident occurred, he did mention that he and Bosworth tied the knot in May 2023. Reflecting on their relationship, Long previously shared on “Live with Kelly and Mark” in November 2023, “When I met her, it was a real sense of knowing that I never had before.”
The actor described how meeting Bosworth changed his perspective on clichés about love. “I had heard of clichés such as ‘when you know, you know,’ but then they become, like, immediately true,” he added.
