Julia Roberts Ended Writers Marriage 7/12/07

Julia Roberts inadvertently brought writer Jay McInerney's marriage to a crashing end when a goodbye kiss at the end of an interview turned the journalist into an obsessed fan.

The Bright Lights, Big City author recently confessed he was smitten with the Pretty Woman star when she left him with a lingering memory after he interviewed her for a magazine.

Charming McInerney told a magazine editor's conference that Roberts had just divorced Lyle Lovett and he convinced her to go dancing with him after their interview.

The writer's ex-wife, Helen Bransford, tells America's the Globe tabloid that seeing her husband become more and more obsessed with Roberts prompted her to get a face-lift. The couple divorced in 2000.