Elton John's Husband David Furnish Reveals Their Marriage Rule After 31 Years Together (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Elton John and David Furnish attend the World Premiere of Disney+ Documentary ‘Elton John: Never Too Late’ at Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall on Sept. 6, 2024 in Toronto.Photo:Sonia Recchia/Getty

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Elton Johnand his husbandDavid Furnishare “still standing” together for a good reason.

In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE at theToronto International Film Festival, the filmmaker — who co-directed the documentary about his husband’s lifeElton John: Never Too Latealongside R.J. Cutler — opened up about their marriage rule after 31 years together.

“Elton and I’ve never been dishonest with each other,” Furnish, 61, said. “We’ve always talked very openly about our feelings and when we’ve had challenges and things we have to overcome, we always talk it out.”

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He added that the longtime couple also “never go to bed on an argument.”

“We always make sure that before we turn in at night, if there’s any kind of hostility in the air or, ‘I’m not speaking to you. Really pissed me off,’ we don’t go to sleep on it,” Furnish explained. “We don’t carry it over the next day.”

That means sometimes staying up until 3 a.m. if they need to “talk it out.”

“I just think that’s all about respecting the relationship,” he said.

In December 2005, the couple entered a civil partnership andofficially tied the knotnine years later once same-sex marriage became legal in the U.K. They share two children, sonsZachary, 13, and Elijah, 11.

“If you’d had said to me 10 years ago I’d be sitting on your show married to the man I love and have two beautiful children I would have said, ‘You put acid in my drink.’ But life throws you challenges and life throws you curveballs — great curveballs,” the"Tiny Dancer" hitmaker saidonThe Ellen Degeneres Showin 2016.

InElton John: Never Too Late,whichpremiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)on Friday, Sept. 6., John, 77, opened up about how his sons have feared for his death.

“They think about my mortality. They worry about my mortality,” he said in the film,

Added John, “Not so much David, but me.”

According to the “Candle in the Wind” artist, his two sons love him “so they want me to be around forever, [and] I would love to be around forever.”

David Furnish, Elijah Furnish-John, Zachary Furnish-John, and Sir Elton John attend the 23rd Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party on Feb. 22, 2015 in Los Angeles.Michael Kovac/Getty

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But John is realistic that he might not be around for every special moment.

“I want to see them have children and get married. I don’t think I’m going to be around for that. Who knows?” John says. “You never know.”

That’s why the music icon considers their “time together” to be “so wonderful and so precious.”

Elton John: Never Too Latedebuts on Disney+ on Dec. 13.

source: people.com