The actor and his girlfriend already got a daughter together

Sep 24, 2014 09:36 GMT  ·  By

Sorry ladies, but Jeremy Renner has just gone off the market. The 43-year-old actor was believed to have split up from Sonni Pacheco, but he just recently admitted that they had in fact gotten married in secret.

The actor sat down with Capitol File and opened up about a subject he usually keeps mum about: his personal life. He does confess that he married his Canadian model girlfriend, Sonni Pacheco, a girl with whom he's been living together in Los Angeles.

Jeremy Renner chose to keep mum on his marriage to protect his new wife from the media

The reason why Renner has chosen to remain silent when the media mistakenly reported the couple had split was because he wanted to keep his new wife out of the spotlight. “I have tried to protect my family's privacy, my wife's privacy,” he says.

The interviewer is taken aback by this sudden confession and immediately tries to get him to give up the name of his new wife, asking if she's the mother of his child. Renner simply responds that “I don’t need her to get hammered with my life. Privacy issues are important because I want her to go about her day without being bothered.”

The actor loves being a father, can't stand to be away from his new-born daughter

The new father and husband seems to be very interested in keeping the paparazzi on him and off his wife and child, which is a responsible way to tackle fame. “Paps follow me around . . . that’s fine. But . . . I don’t like being followed when I’m with my family. I’ve been talked about a whole lot, because the less I put out there, the less people know, and it makes it interesting, I assume.”

In fact, Jeremy has pretty much devoted himself to family life, despite the fact that he's always busy on some movie set. He confesses to feeling miserable when he's not with his daughter who is now 18months old. The star gushes “I really love being a father.”

He then goes on to tell funny stories, “I can't wait for her to get older, but I really enjoy her now. She's the greatest. She's into her sticker phase.” But then he also makes a point out of warning would-be suitors for his daughter when she's older, saying that he's going to make it difficult for her to find a man.

This is the second Hollywood hunk who's gone out and gotten married in secret, after earlier this week, it was reported that Tom Hardy also tied the knot in a secret ceremony. And since Ryan Gosling has just had a baby, it's safe to say that it's a dark day for women around the world.