{"id":28584,"date":"2019-08-09T09:10:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T15:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1063611"},"modified":"2019-08-09T09:10:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T15:10:22","slug":"mischa-barton-and-james-abercrombie-split-why-she-called-it-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/mischa-barton-and-james-abercrombie-split-why-she-called-it-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"Mischa Barton and James Abercrombie Split: Why She Called It Quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201979\/rs_600x600-190809075934-600-Mischa-Barton-James-Abercrombie-LT-080919-spl1516885_001.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.449171686747\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"27.594126506024\">\n<p>When it comes to her love life, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/mischa_barton\">Mischa Barton<\/a><\/strong> is staring at a blank page, and the rest is still unwritten.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old&nbsp;<em>The O.C.&nbsp;<\/em>alum and star of&nbsp;<em>The Hills: New Beginnings<\/em>&nbsp;and her Australian model boyfriend&nbsp;<strong>James Abercrombie<\/strong> have called it quits, E! News has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mischa and James are over,&#8221; a source close to Mischa told E! News on Friday. &#8220;The reason she broke up with him is to focus on her career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the first time Mischa is actually having a second life in her career, and she wants to focus on it,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;That&#8217;s the reason she broke up with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mischa rose to fame playing Marissa Cooper on the drama series <em>The O.C.<\/em>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/839974\/the-rise-and-fall-of-mischa-barton-a-timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quit the show<\/a> a year before it ended its four-season run in 2007.&nbsp;Since then, she has undergone some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/839974\/the-rise-and-fall-of-mischa-barton-a-timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">personal and legal turmoil<\/a>,&nbsp;and her&nbsp;career&nbsp;has stalled; In 2009, she landed a top role in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ashton_kutcher\">Ashton Kutcher<\/a><\/strong>-produced drama series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/146195\/some-ugly-news-the-beautiful-life-canceled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Beautiful Life: TBL<\/em>, but it was canceled after two episodes<\/a> due to low ratings. Over the past decade, Mischa has appeared in mainly small films, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/817329\/mischa-barton-thinks-dancing-with-the-stars-was-an-awful-experience-i-was-so-glad-to-get-kicked-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">competed on <em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em><\/a>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/817329\/mischa-barton-thinks-dancing-with-the-stars-was-an-awful-experience-i-was-so-glad-to-get-kicked-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an experience she described as &#8220;awful<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The actress&nbsp;made her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1051325\/mischa-barton-brandon-lee-are-getting-new-beginnings-with-the-hills-revival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">big TV comeback in&nbsp;June as a new cast member on MTV&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>The Hills: New Beginnings<\/em><\/a>, a reboot of the hit &#8217;00s reality show. In July, the series&nbsp;was renewed for a second season.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>&nbsp;&#8220;It&#8217;s a new Mischa, and she is super happy about her future again,&#8221; the source told E! News. &#8220;She is all focused on the best she can be. She is really focused on her career. She is changing her life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"53.241573033708\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6.3707865168539\">\n<p>James, the son of <strong>Andrew Abercrombie<\/strong>, the multi-millionaire founder and chairman of Australian financial services company FlexiGroup and a former Victorian Liberal Party treasurer,&nbsp;and Mischa started&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/859617\/meet-mischa-barton-s-new-boyfriend-james-abercrombie-an-aussie-heir-to-a-574-million-fortune\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dating in spring of 2017<\/a> after meeting at a party in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>Over the past couple of years, the two have occasionally been spotted out together in the city and in New York.<\/p>\n<p>James has not commented on the split.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1063611\/mischa-barton-and-james-abercrombie-split-why-she-called-it-quits?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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