Charlize Theron denies ‘ghosting’ Sean Penn
CHARLIZE Theron has broken her silence on why she abruptly split from her fiance, Sean Penn, denying that she simply ‘ghosted’ the star.
CHARLIZE Theron has finally revealed why she abruptly split from her fiance, Sean Penn, denying that she simply ‘ghosted’ the star.
The Oscar-winner, 40, told the Wall Street Journal magazine that there was no drama behind the breakup, which she claims was a mutual decision by the pair.
“There is a need to sensationalise things,” she told the publication. “When you leave a relationship there has to be some f***ing crazy story or some crazy drama”
Reports surfaced in the media that Theron had simply refused to return his calls one day and started ‘ghosting him’.
“And the f***ing ghosting thing, like literally, I still don’t even know what it is. It’s just its own beast. We were in a relationship and then it didn’t work anymore. And we both decided to separate. That’s it,” she said.
Theron also denied that Penn, who she started dating in January 2014 and to whom she was engaged to for only a few months, was planning on adopting her four-year-old son, Jackson.
“We were very, very new in a relationship,” she said. “The stories that Sean was going to adopt Jackson, and all of that was not true. It’s not something that happens in 18 months. You can’t do that to a child.
“So there was an understanding that I was a single mum with a very young boy who I had to put in a situation where he understood that mummy dates, but that he does not have a father, you know what I mean?’”
“You have to be very careful and very honest about that stuff. And Sean was great with all of that,” she said.
Cheron adopted a second child, baby daughter August, in July 2015, with the adoption becoming finalised less than a month after her split from Sean.
“In my honesty about wanting to have more kids, there was an understanding that a relationship had to go somewhere before it was going to be — what you hope for, which ultimately did not happen,’ she said. “We had a very clear understanding. He knew that I was thinking about filing for another adoption, but that we weren’t filing together.”
The breakup was surprising given they were engaged so quickly and how Penn gushed over Theron, saying he had never known true love before he met her.
That is despite being married to Madonna from 1985 to 1989, and to Robin Wright for 14 years from 1996, a union that produced two children.
It seemed to prompt Wright to come out and say she was pretty happy since dropping the ‘Penn’ from her name — the actress has been in an on-off relationship with actor Ben Foster for a number of years.
Perhaps it’s not ladylike [to say], but I’ve never laughed more, read more, or come more than with Ben. He inspires me to be the best of myself. There’s so much to learn. It’s endless. How great! It took me a long time to grow up. Love is possible as life is possible,” she said. “I believe (Sean and I) were together not only to have our beautiful children but to learn how to love. For the next time around, the right way. And then, what I’m looking for in people now is kindness.”
Penn has only ever really said the following about his former marriages.
“I’m very friendly with my first ex-wife,” he said of his current relationship with Madonna. “I would say that I’m on extremely good terms with the children I share with my second ex-wife.”
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