When she started dating Joshua Jackson, Katie Holmes couldn't help but gush, telling Rolling Stone in 1998, "I had really good luck this past year and I had a really wonderful, amazing experience." And when pushed to elaborate, she shared, "I'm just going to say that I met somebody last year, I fell in love, I had my first love, and it was something so incredible and indescribable." Cue the collective awww!

Holmes also gave an analogy Dawson's Creek fans will very much appreciate: "I feel so fortunate because he's now one of my best friends. It's weird, it's almost like a Dawson-and-Joey type thing now." In other words, their friendship went from BFFs to BF-and-GF. Even post-breakup (the pair split sometime in 1999), Jackson stayed a pal to Holmes publicly.

In 2012 after Holmes' divorce from Tom Cruise, Jackson said (via Us Weekly), "Like any old friend, it was like, 'Oh, hi how are ya? What's going on?'; 'I had a kid.' It was very nice, actually." Holmes' strong bond with her daughter Suri is common knowledge, but she's not the only one who's become a parent. Jackson and wife Jodie Turner-Smith welcomed their first child in April 2020 — a daughter named Janie.

FYI, Holmes moved on romantically too. She's been dating chef Emilio Vitolo Jr. as of late. Sounds like fans will just have to enjoy Pacey and Joey's romance in its best form: forever immortalized on TV.

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