Julie Chen And Les Moonves' Marriage Secrets And Scandals Exposed

In 2016, Chen gushed to an interviewer that her marriage to Moonves was wonderful and they never even argued.

However, they were hit by scandal in 2018 after women claimed that Moonves had sexually harassed them in the years before he'd married Chen.

Moonves has denied any misconduct.

But Chen left her co-host job on The Talk and Moonves quit as CBS titan amid the disgrace.

Since then, Chen has been right by Moonves' side on public dates—but the two have looked grim.

Scroll through Radar's gallery for more on their marriage secrets and scandals and how they've survived as a couple.

Chen once said before meeting Moonves, she was obsessed with her career and had no desire to be a wife or mom. "I never wanted to have kids and I never wanted to get married," she told BuzzFeed News.

When Chen and Moonves started dating, he was still reportedly married to his first wife, Nancy Wiesenfeld, the mother of his three kids.

Moonves' first wife Wiesenfeld filed for divorce in April 2003, when he was seeing Chen. Wiesenfeld told the New York Daily News about their split, "I felt that everybody knew about what was going on between Moonves and Chen. And everybody did know. Except me."

Chen and Moonves married in Acapulco, Mexico, in 2004, less than two weeks after his divorce from Wiesenfeld was finalized.

The CBS TV star and her husband Moonves have a big age difference --she is 21 years his junior. When Chen and Moonves tied the knot, she was 34 and he was 55.

Chen was 39 when she gave birth to Moonves' son Charlie in 2009.

Haters wondered if Chen, who joined CBS' The Talk in 2010, got the high-profile gig because she was married to the network's boss. But Moonves insisted at the time that marrying him might have actually HURT Chen’s career. And Chen herself said things were awkward: "I had already spent a good chunk of time working with my CBS co-workers and then the day we got married, I saw certain people treat me differently."

In 2011, The New York Post reported that Chen had allegedly mentioned Moonves as a threat to her fellow The Talk co-stars. The publication claimed that Chen had told them, "My husband can fire you’re a**** any day." But Moonves defended her in Newsweek, saying, "Anybody that knows my wife knows she would never say that."

Chen told to Larry King in a 2016 interview about her and Moonves, "We really don’t fight. I’m a very easygoing person—I wake up happy—and my husband, he has learned how to count to 10 backwards in his head. He says, you have no idea how many times I bite my tongue, because the one time he didn’t, he doesn’t respond well to ice cold, I will shut off and shut down. It works. I won’t even be in the room for you to ask, what’s the matter? I will ice you out."

In Chen's 2016 interview with King, she revealed, "Very early on my husband said to me, 'Let's never say something to the other person where—just know anything you say, you can't take it back.' So never hit below the belt, no matter how emotional you're feeling, or vulnerable, or hurt, or angry."

Chen quit co-hosting The Talk after Les' scandal, making an emotional announcement on the show. "Right now, I need to spend more time at home, with my husband and our young son," the veteran TV star said.

The New York Times reported that Moonves' alleged sexual harassment had ended when he had married Chen, citing an internal draft report prepared for CBS' board of directors. According to the report, Moonves had allegedly demanded sex from multiple female colleagues before and after he came to work at CBS in 1995, but his alleged misconduct stopped after he wed Chen in 2004.