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Fans loved seeing Welling back in action, but where has he been all this time? 2013's "Parkland" earned a 50% score on Rotten Tomatoes and only made $1.4 million at the box office against a $10 million budget. But it still showed that he had been thinking about his future as an actor, and contemplated the theater as part of that future.

However, the actor was in the middle of a divorce battle with his ex-wife Jamie White at the time. I was like, 'Guys, I'm out of here.' The two months that you spend at the beach loses some of its intrinsic value when you don't have anything you're running away from or have to go back to. "Clear Cut" welcomed Welling into the unfortunate club of famous actors with a 0% movie on Rotten Tomatoes.

"I needed a break," he told BuzzFeed.

He's started to do more fan conventions in recent years

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Tom Welling had a complicated relationship with "Smallville" — and the character he played on the show — during its run and for a time right after. Check the latest TV appearances of Tom Welling

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    Because of this, Welling decided that, after "Smallville," he didn't want to do another TV show for a while.

    Couple that with the fact that there used to be a stigma against big name celebrities doing fan conventions and other such appearances, and it's perhaps understandable why Welling wasn't exactly doing the rounds at such events back in the day.

    But a combination of him coming to appreciate his time on "Smallville" and his association with Superman, as well as it being much more acceptable for celebrities to do conventions in recent years, has led to Welling doing a lot more of them.

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    He hasn't done any live theater, however, so it seems Welling never ended up taking that path. "From an emotional standpoint, I was basically cut off from everyone ... Tom Welling having his first child in 2019 with then-fiancée Jessica Rose Lee surely altered the trajectory of his future as an actor.

    In 2024, he confirmed that the co-creators of "Smallville" had also become involved with the project. Welling was arrested in a restaurant parking lot for suspicion of driving under the influence. Welling is clearly making his family and his personal life a priority right now rather than being a full-time actor. "I needed to figure out what was going on in my head a little bit.

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    After Smallville, he wanted to take some time off

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    "Smallville" was so much work for Tom Welling that afterwards, he took a self-imposed six-month hiatus. Many screen actors either get their start in live theater, or they leverage the fame they've earned as a screen actor to then move into live theater later on.

    The following May, he reached a plea deal for a lesser charge, which resulted in fines, one year of probation, and being required to attend a DUI program, with the charges dismissed in June.

    In the grand scheme of things, this was a fairly minor blemish on Welling's otherwise generally positive reputation these days.