Minka Kelly and Dan Reynolds Split After Four Years—Months After Disneyland Family Post

It’s over for Minka Kelly and Dan Reynolds. The “Friday Night Lights” actor and Imagine Dragons frontman have ended their four-year romance, according to People, which reported the breakup Wednesday, citing a source close to the couple. The Los Angeles Times reported the news Thursday. Neither a reason for the split nor a specific breakup date was given in the article. The news follows a July Instagram post that put Kelly alongside Reynolds and his four children at Disneyland. Her caption made her feelings about the outing clear: there was nowhere else she wanted to be. Now, the relationship that began in 2022 has reached its end, according to People’s source. Their introduction came through a mutual friend, but this wasn’t a romance that started with a string of in-person dates. According to the Times, Kelly, now 46, was working in the U.K. and completing her memoir, “Tell Me Everything,” when she and Reynolds first connected. For their first month, they got to know each other through phone calls. The book, which explored Kelly’s complicated relationship with her mother, became part of those early exchanges when Reynolds asked to read it. Kelly later revisited that vulnerable moment during a November 2025 appearance on “The Drew Barrymore Show.” She said she had warned Reynolds that the manuscript could either frighten him away or allow him to appreciate the beauty within her experiences. In her telling, he chose the second response. It was a rare glimpse into the beginning of a relationship whose private details the pair largely kept to themselves. Their first public sighting together came in November 2022, when they were seen leaving Cafe Stella in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood, the Times reported. A month earlier, Reynolds, now 39, had announced his separation from Aja Volkman. He and the Nico Vega singer had married in 2011; their divorce was finalized in March 2024. They share four children. Kelly and Reynolds may have kept much of their home life private, but they weren’t hiding from the cameras altogether. The Times noted affectionate appearances at several major sporting events in 2024, including the Super Bowl, an Inter Miami match against the Los Angeles Galaxy and UFC 303. Those outings offered public snapshots of the couple without much accompanying commentary about their relationship. Reynolds did speak about Kelly’s place in his family in a 2024 interview with People. He said his children had become fond of her and described the presence of additional caring adults as a positive—more people available to offer love and support. He also stressed that introducing Kelly into that part of his life had been a careful, gradual process. From that phone-only first month to sports outings and a Disneyland family visit, the relationship unfolded through occasional public glimpses. The latest one is a breakup report: after four years together, Kelly and Reynolds have gone their separate ways, according to the source cited by People.