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Isla Fisher faced an awkward run-in with her ex-husband Sacha Baron Cohen at the Vanity Fair Oscars bash just days after she claimed their divorce felt ‘freeing’.
The actress, 50, and actor, 54, who announce their split at the end of 2023 and finalised their divorce in June 2025, were both in attendance at the party.
While Isla has insisted she is ‘not ready to date’, Sacha was recently linked to an OnlyFans model after they were spotted on a night out together.
And their respective appearances at the swanky soiree may have proved slightly uncomfortable, after Isla recently waxed lyrical about the joys of being divorced.
Speaking to PEOPLE at the TIME Women Of The Year Gala in Hollywood on March 10, when asked how she was, Isla said: ‘I’m good. I’m so great.
‘I turned 50. I was so nervous about that… but it has felt so freeing. I feel so liberated. There’s [also] something about being divorced where you just feel like you could just do anything.’
The mother of three joked that no longer being married earned her the right to do as she pleased and was her ‘get out of jail free’ card.
‘You could just do anything, and someone would be like, “Oh, don’t worry. She’s divorced.” It’s so cool.’
Isla looked stunning on the night in a strapless satin gown with an intricately beaded floor-length skirt, accessorised with a pair of statement earrings.
Sacha also opted for white, sporting a smart blazer over a black top and trousers, with a pair of patent dress shoes.
Only three months after Sacha and Isla confirmed their divorce was complete, it was reported the Borat star had moved on with a younger model.
Sacha was spotted with 27-year-old Hannah Palmer who he met at film director Taika Waititi’s 50th birthday party in Ibiza in August last year. Friends of the star later insisted he wasn’t dating Hannah.
Sacha’s approach to dating is a stark contrast to Isla’s career-focused and commitment to re-build her life and throw herself into work.
Behind the brave-face, Isla has been silently re-building her life ‘from grassroots level’, she recently revealed in an emotional interview.
Speaking about her divorce, Isla admitted creating her new home has been ‘tough’.
‘I’m enjoying this new version of my life. I don’t need to party in my house anymore. I love to get in the bath. I’ll light some candles, bring in my laptop and put on something on Netflix. That’s as exciting as it gets.’
She also told ELLE Decoration about the moment her furniture arrived: ‘I did have a bit of a cry because this was my first time as a single woman, being in a home of my own.’
Isla previously revealed how she had been picking up the pieces in the wake of the split, admitting that the Carl Jung method had helped her heal in a healthy way.
The Jungian method is a therapeutic approach that explores unconscious forces, dreams, symbols and archetypes, aiming towards self-understanding, self-integration and fulfilment.
‘This is totally personal and I say this with the caveat as it worked for me, but the concept of processing stuff and taking your time, thinking about it again and again, you don’t really feel better that way,’ she told The Australian.
Instead, the Wedding Crashers star kept moving following the divorce, saying ‘yes’ to any opportunity that came her way and throwing herself into her work.
The move has seen Isla keeping busy on film sets, staying active in her community and reinventing herself creatively after what she calls a parental ‘power pause’.
‘It’s amazing to me that at this point in my life I’ve got this opportunity, in a positive way, to reinvent what the last act of my life is now from the ground up,’ she said, gushing that she loved returning to work.
The actress went on to explain she didn’t fall out of love with acting during her hiatus from the screen, she was just more in love with motherhood, and still is.
But now, thanks to the extra time that co-parenting brings, she can do both.
‘For most parents, we focus on our kids and it’s so divine and magical and so absorbing, but now I have some time where the kids aren’t with me, so I get some time to think about what the future might hold for me.’
In early 2025, Isla said she was not looking to date again anytime soon in the wake of her divorce.
‘That’s not on my to-do list. I’m not ready to think about any of that,’ she told The Sunday Times.
Isla explained her own parents separated when she was nine-years-old and admitted their peaceful arrangement was what she now strives for.
She said: ‘It was very harmonious, I don’t ever remember them fighting about anything… they were very inclusive of each other.’
When asked if that was the ‘blueprint’ for her separation, Isla said: ‘That’s the dream.’
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