Addison Timlin Says Boyfriend Cooper Raiff ‘Saved My Life’ as She Shares Photo of Costar with Her Kids with Ex Jeremy Allen White

Addison Timlin is celebrating her boyfriend Cooper Raiff’s 28th birthday.

Timlin penned a heartfelt birthday tribute to the director with a Tuesday, Feb. 11, Instagram post. The Hal & Harper actress, 33, added photos of Raiff throughout their relationship, as well as photos of him with her and Jeremy Allen White’s daughters: Ezer Billie White, 6, and Dolores Wild White, 4. 

“Happy birthday to the oldest man who has ever lived. I am certain your soul is as surprised to find you in a young and strong body everyday as I am. Lucky for me and the world, you’re here for another go around,” she began in the caption. 

“I have these very clear images of you constantly floating in my brain, things I’m sure will flash before my eyes in the end but they never go away. Almost as if my brain is saying ‘I know we left them there but it’ll still be a surprise when you see the way we put them together at the end.’ Something about remembering and forgetting and how those two can become the same thing if you don’t look closely enough, or if you don’t stop to listen,” she continued.  

“When you are about to cry, your lip shakes and I automatically/involuntarily start to cry too. It reminds me of being a child, when I saw my mother cry, when my antennae’s were pulled to frequencies no one else was feeling. I’ve spent most of my adult life trying to stop that sort of bleeding, only to find it wasn’t blood at all: it was just love.”

“A hard wire to feel and see the world for what it was, to know pain and joy and feel it as my own. To feel life pass through me like a tidal wave.” 

“I never met anyone like me until I met you,” she wrote. “How gentle and precious to be understood. How earth shattering and life affirming to stand next to someone and know they are feeling the same thing.” 

Timlin then celebrated Raiff’s more personal moments, when he is dancing, silly and loud. “When I see you and think ‘like a duck in the water.’ ”

“I love to know who you are and to be close to it. Thank you for letting me big and small and messy and anxious, and loving and true,” she added. “It has saved my life.” 

As she continued she thanked him for showing her things she doesn’t “want to live without,” including Jersey Mikes, The Cheesecake Factory and Luka Doncic. 

“You are other worldly and so important, leaving an indelible mark on everything you touch. Steering your antennas towards grace and healing and the secret things we all have always known,” she wrote, before concluding, “You are my ghost. I love you.”

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Timlin’s social media post is her first to reference her relationship with Raiff. She filed for divorce from White in May 2023.

Timlin and Raiff worked on his latest project, the TV series Hal & Harper, which he created, wrote, and acts in. Mark Ruffalo, Lili Reinhart, Betty Gilpin, Alyah Chanelle Scott and Havana Rose Liu also star.

After the series premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, Timlin posted an Instagram celebrating the screening, praising Raiff’s work and revealing she had fallen in love with the series’ creator. The show is still seeking distribution.