Because of all the cameras, he couldn’t hide from the press.
Kevin Costner, an actor, and Joan Lunden, a journalist, author, and TV personality at the time, fell in love in the year 1995. Good Morning America on ABC featured Lunden as a co-host beginning in 1980 and continuing until 1997.
Their relationship became irreparably damaged as a direct result of the persistent scrutiny of the media. Because Waterworld had only recently been released, the press naturally had a lot of questions about Kevin Costner’s personal life at the time.