James McAvoy confirms that he secretly married his partner Lisa Leberati

James McAvoy confirmed reports that he had secretly married his partner Lisa Leberati.

The 42-year-old Scottish actor and his longtime girlfriend Lisa, also 42, sparked speculation about marriage back in 2019, but the couple declined to respond to reports at the time.

X-Men star James, who was previously married to actress Anne-Marie Duff, has now seemingly confirmed that the couple is married, but still remains unspoken when it comes to all the details.

In a recent interview with The guardian, he reflects on his identity and talks about his upcoming acting projects, and also missed that he and Lisa exchanged oaths.

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The Guardian wrote: “They started a relationship a few years later and, he confirms, they recently got married.”

Lisa was originally from Philadelphia, and the paper then asked James if he now considered himself an “honorary Philadelphian.”

The 42-year-old actor replied: “Yes, it’s like a second home for me.”

However, James refrained from further explaining the issue, as he and Lisa kept their romance completely out of the spotlight in recent years.

Lisa met James on the set of the hit film Split in 2016, when Lisa was PA of the film’s director M. Knight Shamalan.

At the time, James was married to actress Anne-Marie Duff, but they soon separated after enjoying an 11-year marriage.

The divorce of the former couple was finally finalized and they are now the parents of their eleven-year-old son Brendan.

James and Lisa officially confirmed their relationship in 2017, when they shared a series of favorite selfies on Instagram, taken during a Halloween night.

In 2019, rumors began to circulate that the couple had married in secret after a close friend of James’s, Jamie Lloyd, was heard calling Lisa “James’s wife.”

Lisa was also spotted wearing a wedding ring at the same time.

Neither of them confirmed the reports, and in 2020 they moved to a large home in London after living together in an apartment during the first coronavirus block.

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