Diane Kruger on How Partner Joshua Jackson Changed Her Life

German actress opens up about her longtime love, whom she met in 2006.

ByABC News
June 27, 2016, 12:59 PM
Diane Kruger attends the Lola - German Film Award 2016 (Deutscher Filmpreis), May 27, 2016, in Berlin.
Diane Kruger attends the Lola - German Film Award 2016 (Deutscher Filmpreis), May 27, 2016, in Berlin.
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— -- By the time she was 30, Diane Kruger was already going through an identity crisis.

Having left her native Germany at 15 to become a model in Paris, she told Town & Country magazine, "I had become arrogant. I had been a model, I spoke three languages, I had a career. I felt I had figured it all out. And then I realized that I was living in this very privileged life in my own bubble that I created and I [didn’t] know anything about what [was] really going on in the world and I [didn’t] ask enough questions."

At that moment, the "Inglourious Basterds" actress decided to make some "different choices. I cut people out of my life who I felt were enabling my bubble."

PHOTO: Diane Kruger appears in "Town & Country" magazine's August cover.
Diane Kruger appears in "Town & Country" magazine's August cover.

Soon after divorcing French actor Guillaume Canet in 2006, Kruger began dating American actor Joshua Jackson, 38, and her life changed.

"Meeting someone like my partner, who has a very different perspective, who likes to travel in a different way and be open to various experiences was so important," she said. "I was 30 years old and I was already bored of fancy hotels."

PHOTO: Diane Kruger appears in "Town & Country" magazine's August cover.
Diane Kruger appears in "Town & Country" magazine's August cover.

Now 39, Kruger recently made the move to New York to live with "The Affair" star.

"I just moved this week. I need to unpack and buy some house stuff, like candles and books," she told Net-a-Porter's The Edit back in March. "[Moving here] was a major commitment. That's a big step into adulthood for me, to allow that time for someone else out of my time."