There are rare celebrity relationships that the public knows nothing about. But for most people in the spotlight, their love lives seem very public. Hence their breakup as well.
Here are 19 celebrities who have spoken out about public breakups.
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Joe Alwyn and Taylor Swift ended their six-year relationship in 2023. A year later he told the Sunday Times: “What’s unusual and unusual about this situation is that a week later it’s suddenly in the public domain and out there. The world can weigh in.”
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In 1998, Matt Damon publicly ended his year-long relationship with Minnie Driver by announcing that he was single. Oprah Winfrey Show.
Minnie later told the LA Times, “Everything has to be so mythical. There’s an archetype that everyone has to break down. I had to be the victim. It’s a terrible thing to break up with someone anyway, but to do it so publicly and they It’s unfortunate that Matt continued to cast this unjust woman in a role I would never take if they paid me! Oprah; It seemed like a good forum for him to announce to the world that we were no longer together, but I thought it was fantastically inappropriate. Of course he was busy declaring his love for me. david letterman “A month ago.”
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In 2011, Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian were infamously married for 72 days. In a 2019 essay in The Player’s Tribune, he wrote: “There are definitely a lot of parts of that world that aren’t completely real. But our real-life relationship was 100% real. When it was clear it wasn’t working… what can you say?” ? I was annoyed. It’s never easy to go through such embarrassment with your friends and family. “But when it was revealed so publicly in front of the world, it was a whole other level.”
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In 2023, Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas’ four-year marriage ended in a highly publicized divorce and tabloid speculation was rampant. In 2024, she told British Vogue: “I mean, it was the worst few days of my life. I remember being on set. I was contracted to be on set for two more weeks, so I couldn’t leave.” I was in America, but I couldn’t go because I had to finish work. Joanne. And then all these articles started coming out… It broke my heart because as a mom I was completely torturing myself for everything I did. “Mom guilt is very real!”
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In a 2023 Instagram post, Lupita Nyong’o announced that she had split from Selema Masekela after a year together. “I am going through a heartbreaking time because of a sudden love, a love that was tragically destroyed by deception,” she wrote. “I am tempted to dive into the shadows and hide, but when I regain enough strength, I will return to the light.” . She says, ‘I think my life will be better if I do this anyway.’ But I came to remember that the amount of pain I feel is equal to the amount of my ability to love.”
Then, she told Glamor in 2024, “I wanted to be honest. Honestly, the thought of having to update people one by one would be painful. I chose to share my relationship with the world, and I wanted to choose to share the end of it with the world.”
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In 2014, Calvin Harris sang “I Will Never Let,” a song he wrote and produced, at the Teen Choice Awards without Rita Ora knowing she had ended their year-long relationship via Twitter. It is said that the performance of “You Down” was banned.
In 2015, Rita told Marie Claire, “There was a reason why I broke up with him, and there was a reason why I’m at this point where I feel like I’m having too much musical freedom. I don’t have to explain myself to anyone… I I was at that point in the relationship where I thought he couldn’t have my back and would never manipulate me, but then ‘I Will Never Let You Down’ came out and things started getting a little weird.”
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Calvin Harris and Taylor Swift ended their 15-month relationship in 2016. At first he tweeted, “The only truth here is that the relationship is over. All that’s left is tremendous love and respect.” Taylor reposted.
About a month later, things escalated further when Taylor’s rep confirmed rumors that she co-wrote Calvin and Rihanna’s collaboration “This Is What You Came For” under a pseudonym. In a series of since-deleted tweets, Calvin praised her work and even sang a bit on the track, but revealed that she “wanted it to be kept secret at first.” But he added: “It hurts me at this stage that she and her team are trying to make ME look bad.”
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In 2009, Lindsay Lohan went through a tumultuous breakup with Samantha Ronson, her girlfriend of almost two years. Samantha Ronson hired her security to prevent Lindsay from attending a party at the hotel where the pair were staying, after which she allegedly changed the locks at their shared home and looked behind her. She goes to get a restraining order.
The night of the party, Lindsey tweeted, “Getting cheated is amazing to you. You and your friends are doing this in public because they call People. So you won, you have my heart.” I hurt you now, I loved you.” .(original text)”
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In 2022, Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet announced the end of their 16-year relationship/5-year marriage in a joint Instagram post. In another Instagram post two months later, he praised the performance of his stepdaughter, Zoë Kravitz. baton He then added, “Thank you Mahalo to the media for being generous with your fans and giving space for your kids. It’s hard enough to be separated in the public eye.”
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In 2015, Perry Edwards’ four-year relationship with then-fiancé Zayn Malik ended. Date of appearance Jonathan Ross Show The following year, she said, “It’s hard for an ordinary woman to go through something like that. I think it’s kind of touching when the whole world sees it and talks about it.”
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Madeline Klein dated her. Outer Banks Co-star Chase Stokes in 2020-2021. In 2023, she told Cosmopolitan, “My problem is that I don’t owe anyone an explanation. I’m a really private person. There are parts of me that are just for me and no one else. But when I look back, I think, ah. “It’s about building my relationships,” he said. “The public made it into someone else’s business, and when I went through a breakup, I realized the side effects, and I let people in, but I felt like I couldn’t let anyone out.”
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After a whirlwind engagement and six months of marriage (including a televised wedding). kardashian), Lucas Gage and Chris Appleton divorced in 2023. Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen In early 2024, Lucas said, “I’ve been bipolar for six months. That furry jacket…I literally don’t know what was going on in my head, but we live and we learn.”
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Shakira’s 11-year relationship with Gerard Piqué ended in 2022, which led to a lot of intense and messy speculation and the singer’s record-breaking diss track “Shakira: BZRP Music Sessions, Vol. #53.”
In 2024, Shakira told Rolling Stone, “I started to realize that my fans were there for me. We live in a society where we’re used to seeing women deal with pain in a submissive way, and I think that’s changed. “he said.
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Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis were locked in a custody battle after their seven-year engagement ended in 2020.
She infamously received custody papers from him live during a mid-stage presentation at CinemaCon 2022.
Olivia told Variety: “It was my workplace. Any other workplace would have seen it as an attack. I was really upset. It shouldn’t have happened. It’s such a huge security breach and it’s really scary.” …I didn’t want this squalor interfering with the work of the studio and the various people I represented there.”
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Sienna Miller performed in 2005. whatever you like it The show ran seven nights a week in the West End while her then-fiancé Jude Law’s cheating scandal spread through the tabloids. In 2020, she told The Daily Beast: “That was one of the hardest moments I would ever want to experience, because that level of public grief meant you had to get out of bed, let alone stand in front of it. Eight hundred people every night, that was the last thing you wanted to do. really Stiff.”
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Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande got infamously engaged in 2018. The following year, she told Vogue he was an “amazing disruptor.” So in his Netflix stand-up special: living in new yorkPete said, “Can you imagine if I did that? My career would be over tomorrow. If I spray-painted myself brown and jumped on the cover of Vogue magazine and started shitting on my ex.”
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And finally, The Real Housewives of Atlanta Star Porsche Williams was married to Cordell Stewart from 2011 to 2013. She found out about their split on social media. The year of her divorce, she told ABC News, “I was literally laying in bed looking at Twitter and it was driving me crazy. I saw on Twitter that her husband had filed for divorce.”
