Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson Divorce News & Update: Couple Gained Tabloid Apology Over False DIvorce Headline

Tabloid writers from Star Magazine and the National Enquirer have apologized to Tom Hanks and his wife for suggesting their 28-year marriage is in trouble. Both magazines are owned by American Media Inc.

The National Enquirer and Star Magazine stories have been changed online and corrections will run in the upcoming print editions. The publications' editors have also retracted articles they ran about the Hollywood couple's alleged divorce plans, in which they also suggested Hanks had fallen for one of his co-stars.

National Enquirer's statement reads that it did not intend to report that Tom Hanks was having any kind of an inappropriate relationship with Meg Ryan, or that he and Rita Wilson were divorcing. Star Magazine editors apologized for their article earlier this Oct. 16. They suggested Hanks was having an inappropriate relationship with Felicity Jones, the actor's co-star in new film Inferno.

Hanks and Wilson issued a statement explaining that after many years together in the public eye they are used to normally laughing off such fabrications, however, as they approach their 29th wedding anniversary they decided they would no longer put up with lies about their marriage which they say is "the foundation of our family".

"No true news organisation could report that our marriage is on the brink of breaking up, but American Media Inc, owner of Star and The National Enquirer, often run fabricated stories to sell their tabloids," the couple told the Hollywood Reporter. "In the past, we laughed off their cover stories of our soon-to-be acrimonious divorce because those stories were so far from true they were laughable.

As one of Hollywood's most solid marriages, Hanks and Wilson experienced a struggle upon discovery that Wilson had breast cancer. Hanks was there to support her after the actress underwent a double mastectomy in April, 2015. The couple married in 1988 and have two sons together.