Suki Waterhouse Makes Rare Comment About Bradley Cooper Break Up
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Suki Waterhouse had a hard time finding the silver lining after her breakup with Bradley Cooper.
The Daisy Jones and the Six star explained that she once thought she'd never recover from their three-year romance that ended in 2015.
"I really will say that I'm pretty strong at this point," Suki told British Vogue for its August issue, "but when something very public happens to you and the story behind it is dark and difficult, and you're actually not doing well, and you can't explain yourself to the world, that's very isolating and disorientating."
She added, "It probably has taken a decade to work myself out and actually be able to have this expansion in my life."
Her music, in turn, has been her outlet. Suki poured her heartbreak into her song "Brutally," which she recorded in 2016 and included on her 2022 EP Milk Teeth.
"Your 20s are pretty sadistic," the 34-year-old said. "The love I experienced [then] was only ever a fetishisation, and I think when you only get loved in that way, you only get punished."
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But life has turned around for the "Good Looking" singer, who welcomed a daughter in March with fiancé Robert Pattinson.
"When you get into your 30s," she added, "you're almost instantly afforded a little bit more respect. It's kind of delightful and shocking at the same time."
Not to say falling in love has impacted how she writes about heartbreak. "I can get mad for my friends," she admitted. "Rob can still get a s---ty song. You can find things to be pissed about."
Though it may be hard when she sees the 38-year-old with their daughter.
The actor is "the dad I could have hoped for," she revealed. "I mean a dad and his daughter? It's an actual love story."
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"I still love the woman," Pitt, who was Lewis' date to the 1992 Oscars when she scored a Supporting Actress nomination for Cape Fear, told Vanity Fair in February 1995. "There's some real genius there. I had a great time with her...It was one of the greatest relationships I've ever been in. The problem is, we grow up with this vision that love conquers all, and that's just not so, is it?"
Winona Ryder & Matt Damon
It wasn't just a Gen X fever dream, they really closed out the 20th century as a couple after, legend has it, being introduced by Gwyneth Paltrow (who famously dated Damon's best bud Ben Affleck). They split up in 2000.
After the fact, Damon called Ryder a "great woman" in a 2004 Playboy interview, while Ryder told Black Book in 2009, "Matt couldn't be a greater, nicer guy. I'm really lucky that I'm on good terms with him."
Cameron Diaz & Justin Timberlake
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Madonna & Tupac Shakur
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Meg Tilly & Colin Firth
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"He broke my heart," Moore told Howard Stern in 2018. "I was a kid, he was a kid. I started dating him when I was 18."
Dave Coulier & Alanis Morissette
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Alanis Morissette & Ryan Reynolds
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The music stopped for the Canadians in 2007, but their breakup after four years together was very polite.
January Jones & Jason Sudeikis
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Minnie Driver & Matt Damon
The Good Will Hunting stars paired off in real life, too, but they didn't drive off into the sunset together.
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Helen Mirren & Liam Neeson
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Jeff Goldblum & Laura Dern
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Kelly Preston & George Clooney
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Val Kilmer & Cher
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Joshua Jackson & Rosario Dawson
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