Kunis grounds Kutcher
Ashton Kutcher’s wife Mila Kunis orders him to give up his ticket to fly into space and to wait until their two children grow up before he can buy another ticket to ride.
You know how much fun Richard Branson and his mates appeared to be having on their Virgin Galactic edge-of-space flight last week? Ashton Kutcher will be having none of that fun.
Blame Mila Kunis — and those darn kids of theirs.
Kutcher was the 500th person to buy a six-figure ticket to space from Virgin Galactic, back in March 2012, when the “That ’70s
Show” alum was the highest-paid actor in television. Virgin Group founder Branson blogged about it at the time, noting that the actor and venture capitalist had “a childhood dream of going to space.”
Unfortunately, some other childhoods got in the way, Kutcher revealed Thursday in an interview with Cheddar News.
“You just hit on a really sensitive subject for me,” the former “Two and a Half Men” star said.
“When I got married (to Kunis) and had kids, my wife basically encouraged that it was not a smart family decision to be heading into space when we have young children,” he said. “So I ended up selling my ticket back to Virgin Galactic.”
The 43-year-old didn’t say when he had backed out.
Kutcher split from first wife Demi Moore in 2011 and finalized that divorce in October 2013. He and Kunis went public as a couple in fall 2012, had a baby in 2014 and got married in June 2015. Their second child arrived late in 2016.
Branson had bragged in
2012 that Virgin Galactic expected to put paying passengers in the sky by 2013 or 2014. Instead, he finally hit the skies last Sunday with five Virgin Galactic employees.
Still, Kutcher’s keeping his dream alive, maybe for when daughter Wyatt and son Dimitri are grown.