Billy Baldwin and Chynna Phillips open up about 'challenging' intimacy issues in unconventional marriage which sees pair living in separate homes

Billy Baldwin and wife Chynna Phillips have revealed they are once again living apart amid their fraught three-decade marriage.

The actor, 63, and the Wilson Phillips hitmaker, 58, who wed in 1995, revealed in a recent YouTube video that they are navigating 'challenging' intimacy issues – and that Baldwin now resides in a guesthouse 50 yards from their main home.

Phillips took to Instagram writing, 'I never imagined Billy and I would be in the situation we’re currently in

'We’re living separately, but adjacent. It’s super confusing and yes… complicated' – before teasing the YouTube video.

The couple, who first announced in 2024 that they were living in separate homes before moving back in with each other, have opened up about their communication struggles when it comes to their respective love languages.

In the video on their YouTube channel, Holding On: Billy Baldwin & Chynna Phillips, Baldwin said, 'We went to therapy years ago, and [our therapist] called it "the One Thing.

'He’s like, "How are you not being fed? What are you not getting in a relationship? I want one thing. You give Chynna what she needs, you give Billy what he’s asking for. You don’t even have to be particularly good at it, you just have to try."'

'It’s so simple, yet it’s pretty difficult. It’s pretty challenging to do that consistently. When you’re together 30 years, it becomes more challenging.

'It’s so important. If you can just do this with your children and do this with your partner, you can make your relationship way more stable, and way better.'

The couple, who have daughters Jameson, 26, and Brooke, 22, as well as son Vance, 25, together, admitted their marriage has come under strain because of their different communication styles.

Baldwin said, 'She’s a California girl, hippie chick, who is very laid back.... I’m not. I’m a New Yorker.

'So the way I was raised and the way I communicate can be defined by her [as] intense [and] urgent.

Phillips added, 'I’d love to see you let go just a little more in your life. Let go of all the strains and the stresses,' which Baldwin admitted was 'hard.'

The Flatliners actor also reflected on their respective needs for emotional and physical intimacy.

He said, 'I think God played this cruel language where he wired women to want emotional intimacy … that leads to physical intimacy.

'I act that way emotionally towards my wife, and I give her exactly everything she wants for, like, 48 hours after we’ve been together physically.

'So I think I want the physical intimacy that leads to the emotional intimacy that she’s looking for.'

The pair have shocked fans by oversharing the most intimate details of their marriage.

In June 2025, Phillips, who converted to Christianity in 2022, opened up about her 'complicated' marriage in an unflinchingly honest video shared to her faith-based YouTube channel California Preachin'.

She laid bare a series of devastating problems that have plagued her and Billy's relationship over the years in a shocking, 16-minute-long rant, detailing how her newfound love of religion had driven a wedge between them.

She said Baldwin has 'struggled' with her 'Jesus journey' and theorized that he feels 'upstaged by the big man,' before she begged Jesus to help 'heal and restore and refurbish' their marriage.

Phillips went on to admit that she had 'fallen into a destructive pattern with her husband' and that she hasn't been 'forgiving' enough in recent months.

'I haven't been kind and I haven't been forgiving and I haven't been patient and I haven't been giving of myself in an emotional way,' she continued.

'I feel like I have shut down in many ways. I feel like it's been unfair to Billy, the way that I have treated him. I feel like I really dropped the ball.'

But according to Chynna, their struggles didn't just start recently, as she also spoke about the 'heartbreaking' early years of their romance.

She explained that they met when they were both on the same plane back in 1991 and he approached her and introduced himself.

At the time, she joked that she was 'white as a ghost' because she had just watched his film Backdraft a few days earlier and 'thought that he was like the most gorgeous specimen that she had ever laid eyes on.'

They ended up exchanging numbers at baggage claim and started dating soon after, but she also confessed that their first kiss left her 'a little turned off.'

The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for the pair for further comment.