Jodie Foster, in a sign things are getting very serious with her photographer girlfriend, Alexandra Hedison, is forsaking booze, and even attending support meetings in an effort to show her lover, a recovered alcoholic herself, how committed she is to the relationship. 
 
 The two-time Oscar winner‘s “joined Alcoholics Anonymous and has embraced a 12-step program,” a friend told Star. “Now Alex has no reservations about spending their lives together … now they are both sober.” 
 
 The actress-director, 51, was persuaded by Hedison — a 44-year-old recovering alcoholic with more than a decade of sobriety under her belt — to make the moves after Foster’s casual drinking became a tangible issue between the two, Star reported. 
 
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 Hedison, who dated Ellen DeGeneres from 2001 until 2004, was often prone to watching the comic imbibe with wine as she fought to resist the urges to drink, a predicament Foster has vowed not to repeat. 
 
 The Silence of the Lambs star, who was the talk of Hollywood after her revealing speech at last year’s Golden Globes “refuses to make the same mistake,” Degeneres did, says the pal. 
 
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 “She’s finally found the woman of her dreams,” the source told Star, ”so giving up alcohol was nothing for her.” 
 
 “Alex wants Jodie to be sober for at least a year before they tie the knot and then it’s full-speed ahead with the nuptials. They’re crazy in love.” ||||| Surprise! Jodie Foster is a married woman, PEOPLE has confirmed. 
 
 The Oscar-winning actress wed photographer Alexandra Hedison over the weekend after dating for almost a year. 
 
 E! Online first reported the news of the couple’s nuptials. 
 
 In 2013, Foster, 51, gave a stirring speech at the Golden Globes that many interpreted as her coming out. 
 
 “This is not going to be a big coming-out speech tonight because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the Stone Age – in those very quaint days when a fragile girl would open up to trusted friends and family and coworkers and then gradually proudly to everyone who knew her,” she said during the awards, before thanking her ex-partner Cydney Bernard, the mother of her two sons. 
 
 • Reporting by JULIE JORDAN 
 
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 I can exclusively reveal that the Oscar winner and her photographer girlfriend of almost a year got married this past weekend. 
 
 A rep for Foster confirms the happy news. 
 
 As E! News first reported, the two started dating sometime last summer. 
 
 "It's pretty serious," a source told us in September. "They're totally in love." 
 
 Internet chatter about the two began in the summer when the two were photographed together at a technology seminar at Fox Studios in Los Angeles and out to dinner with friends a few days later. Both were at the opening of Alan Cumming's Macbeth in NYC back about a year ago, but they weren't photographed together.
– Jodie Foster may have come out as gay only last year, but today she's a married woman. The 51-year-old Oscar winner married photographer girlfriend Alexandra Hedison, 44, over the weekend, reports E! Online. The two had been dating almost a year, notes People. Earlier this month, a report surfaced suggesting things were serious: Foster reportedly gave up booze because Hedison is a recovering alcoholic. Foster has two sons from her previous relationship with ex-partner Cydney Bernard, while Hedison previously dated Ellen DeGeneres for three years.