In early January, Williams said that she considered her true soulmate to be her best friend, Busy Phillips.

“I’m here with my best friend,” Williams told reporters at a New York screening of Manchester by the Sea, to which she had invited Phillips as her date. “I’m so in love with her.”

Williams and Phillips met back in 2000 when they starred alongside each other in Dawson’s Creek, and Phillips is godmother to Matilda Ledger. Williams also brought Phillips to the 2017 Golden Globes, where she had received her fourth nomination for her role as grieving mother Randi in Manchester by the Sea.

“She’s proof that the love of your life does not have to be a man!” said Williams. “That’s the love of my life right there.”

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