Files" co-star Gillian Anderson. "The part of this conversation that is the trickiest part for me is, I guess, I would talk about my failure of friendship or my failure of companionship or just co-starring,

It’s been six years now since the second revival season of The X-Files ended, not with a bang, but with a definitive cast pronouncement: Gillian Anderson wasn’t coming back, she’d probably never be coming back, and she was done with Dana Scully for good.

The costars reunited on Duchovny's 'Fail Better' podcast to talk about the tougher times during their hit show's initial run

There was a long time, working on the show, where we were just not even dealing with one another off-camera,” David Duchovny recalled.

The X-Files stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson look back at how the show's success and the pressures from it impacted them off-camera.

David Duchovny said he had a “failure of friendship” with “X-Files” co-star Gillian Anderson when the hit sci-fi series was at its peak in the 1990s.

The truth is out there — at least when it comes to David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson ’s once-contentious relationship. The former co-stars — who shot to fame in the 1990s by playing FBI agents Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson) on the sci-fi hit “The X-Files” — recently reunited on Duchovny’s podcast,

Lemonade Media On his Fail Better podcast, David Duchovny buried the hatchet with Gillian Anderson over his relationship with her during their days on The X-Files. The pair, who remain friends, weren’