Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa have been making beautiful music together since the '80s, but their love story wasn't without a tiny bit of indecency. Bruce asked Patti to join the E Street Band in 1984; they reportedly had romantic feelings for each other, but Bruce ended up marrying actress Julianne Phillips in 1985.
Patti joined the band's Tunnel of Love Express Tour three years later. Unsurprisingly, she and Bruce rekindled their romance, albeit secretly, while traveling the world together. Bruce's marriage to Julianne was reportedly strained at the time due to his being away from home so much, and they secretly separated in 1985. Bruce and Patti moved in together shortly after. The Boss faced a lot of backlash for how quickly it seemed he had made his relationship with Patti official. In an interview with The Advocate, he said, "It's a strange society that assumes it has the right to tell people whom they should love and whom they shouldn't. But the truth is, I basically ignored the entire thing as much as I could. I said, 'Well, all I know is, this feels real, and maybe I have got a mess going here in some fashion, but that's life.'"
Bruce and Patti welcomed their first son, Evan, in 1990, tied the knot at their LA home in 1991, and had two more children, daughter Jessica and son Samuel. They've been going strong ever since, and yes — Patti's still with the band.
