As I write this, nearly two decades have passed since Kristen Stewart landed her breakout role in the teen vampire romance franchise Twilight.
The 35-year-old actress has evolved from wayward child to Hollywood’s most acclaimed performer. Her role as Princess Diana in Spencer earned her a 2021 Academy Award nomination.
As part of this week’s celebrations, she also marked another landmark occasion, marrying her long-term boyfriend, Dylan Meyer, in an ‘intimate’ ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday, marking another momentous occasion. Cheating scandals involving Snow White’s director and Twilight’s actor.
Following an on-and-off relationship with her Twilight co-star, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart started dating a 37-year-old screenwriter 2019. When Stewart was spotted with 41-year-old married director Rupert Sanders, she was merely 22. It happened right after she promoted Snow White and the Huntsman.
She dropped him off a few blocks from his Hollywood Hills home, where he lived with his wife, model Liberty Ross, and their two kids. In Snow White, Ross played Stewart’s mom.
The news of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen’s infidelity stunned fans of the couple who had been together since 2007. Stewart and Pattinson split momentarily following the incident, then got back together until separating in May 2013.
Liberty Ross filed for divorce from Sanders in January 2013.She dropped him off a few blocks from his Hollywood Hills home, where he lived with his wife, model Liberty Ross, and their two kids. In Snow White, Ross played Stewart’s mom. She found happiness and is now married to a $1 billion executive.
Here is what you need to know about the adultery scandal that shook one of Hollywood’s most beloved couples. While filming Twilight, Kristen, then seventeen, met the endearing British actor Pattinson. Fans suspected about their relationship for years, but they didn’t official declare it until 2010. On July 17, 2012 Stewart and Sanders were observed in a compromising position.
Stewart formally apologized to Pattinson, characterizing her behavior as a “momentary indiscretion,” as soon as the controversy surfaced She stated she loved him and apologized for causing him suffering.
They reconciled following a brief split during the marketing of Breaking Dawn: Part 2. Nearly four years after they began dating, their relationship came apart in May 2013.
In one of her first interviews following the crisis, Stewart thought back on her blunders and how public reaction affected her. She acknowledged wanting to hide and feeling overburdled. “You have to face your anxiety,” she said. Though it entails making errors, honesty is when the best things happen.”
Two years after splitting from Pattinson, she opened up about the turmoil in her early twenties. Marie Claire stated she witnessed her universe burn after lighting it on fire. Though it was horrific and anxiety-inducing, that period also had transforming power.
Stewart revealed during a 2019 Howard Stern interview that she hadn’t slept with Sanders despite their apparent infatuation. When they were together, she was deeply infatuated with Pattinson, who she described as her first love.
S**t-shaming Stewart received from the public for her role in the affair and her exclusion from the movie’s sequel may have been the most upsetting aspect of the whole situation.
Do you understand what I mean when we lived in a different era? She told Stern, “I think the s**t-shaming that happened was so ridiculous,” before going on to say, “And they ought to have included me in that film!” It would have been preferable. Not to be disrespectful, but…
“They were afraid to touch that because I had gone through such a well-publicized scandal, so they didn’t put me in that movie.”
About her present relationship with Pattinson, the ex-couples have had polite but brief conversations since divorcing more than ten years ago.
Stewart and Hardwicke, who oversaw Twilight, unexpectedly showed up at Pattinson’s 37th birthday celebration in 2023.
Not soon will you hear more regarding Stewart’s friendship with her former co-star. She’s sick of talking about it.
It’s f**king weird,’ she told Rolling Stone  in February 2024.
You’re like if someone kept asking you, “But senior year in high school?” for literally decades. You’re like, “F**king A, man! I don’t know!”‘ [have s*x].’