In 1962, John hurt married Annette Robertson and the marriage ended in 1964. In 1967, he began his longest relationship with Marie-Lise Volpeliere-Pierrot. They had planned to get married after fifteen years. Once events took a tragic turn on 26th of January 1983: Hurt and Volpeliere-Pierrot went horse riding early in the morning near their house in Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire and Volpeliere-Pierrot was thrown off her horse and suffered a tragic fall. She went into a coma and died later that day.
Then, Hurt married Donna Peacock on 6th of September 1984 and the couple moved to Kenya. John and Donna divorced in early January 1990. On 24 January 1990, John married Joan Dalton. This marriage ended in 1996 and it was followed with a seven-year relationship with Sarah Owens. In July 2002, they separated.
In March 2005, Hurt married Anwen Rees Meyers.
