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Owen Wilson: What Happened?

Thursday August 30, 2007 12:00 PM EDT

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For a while, beginning last August, it seemed Owen might have found someone to settle down with – Kate Hudson, his costar in You, Me and Dupree. The couple dated after she separated from her husband, Chris Robinson, but split in May. Soon after, he jetted off to Europe, where he was photographed shopping and eating ice cream with a mystery brunette. He then met up with pal Bruce Willis at a Paris Rolling Stones concert; they later attended the Berlin premiere of Live Free or Die Hard. Asked by PEOPLE how Wilson was faring post-Hudson, Willis said, "He's doing well."

But when Wilson returned to L.A, several friends noticed something was off: "He was not that Owen who had backyard barbecues and sat around laughing with friends," says one. The source attributed his mood change at least in part to his breakup with Hudson, perhaps because his self-professed commitment phobia was once again at odds with his own dream; at a 2005 press junket, he admitted that "I thought I'd be married by the time I was 30 and be starting a family, but it just hasn't worked out that way." Whatever the reason, says a pal," he pulled away from friends. He went MIA for a while." And not for the first time; during a two-year romance with Sheryl Crow that began in 1998, says another source, "he would disappear for two to three days at a time and then come back. She would be worried sick." As were his friends this time around. Says one: "We've all been worried about him possibly doing drugs again."

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