Here's What Happened to Harry and Karen in Love Actually

Love Actually isn’t exactly the type of film one would classify as a “mystery,” but that doesn’t mean that it didn’t leave the audience with a few curious questions. Namely, what happened to all the shiny happy couples after the credits rolled? Did they all live happily ever after? Thanks to Emma Freud, the film’s script editor and partner of its writer-director Richard Curtis, we now at least know what happened to Harry and Karen, Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson’s at-a-crossroads couple.

In late 2015, Freud decided to tweet some fun trivia about the movie. One storyline she had a lot to say about was the relationship between Rickman and Thompson’s characters:

You know that bit when Alan rickman's secretary in the office parts her legs in his direction? Still makes me want to puke. #LoveActually
— emma freud ? ? (@emmafreud) December 13, 2015

Fans of the film were interested, too, with one asking Freud whether Harry “ACTUALLY had an affair or was just tempted to?”

@carlotta429 DEFINITELY had an affair. i begged richard just to make it a flirtation, but no. the whole way.
— emma freud ? ? (@emmafreud) December 13, 2015

Freud admitted that even today, it’s painful to watch the scene in which Karen, newly aware of her husband’s infidelity, listens to a Joni Mitchell CD he purchased for her:

Joni mitchell. Help. Still hurts. Sat on the floor watching her do that scene - 7 takes. Crying every time. Goddess. #LoveActually
— emma freud ? ? (@emmafreud) December 13, 2015

All of which prompted another Twitter user to ask what happened next for the characters:

@JPerlstrom they stay together but home isn't as happy as it once was.
— emma freud ? ? (@emmafreud) December 13, 2015

So, 12 years later, there you have it: Harry and Karen are still together. But not as happy.