The Truth Behind Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart's Breakup

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart—once collectively known as "Robsten"—had an intense,
dramatic relationship that may have been more insane offscreen than on-screen…which says
a lot, considering they played supernatural, melodramatic characters in The Twilight Saga.
Their romance included cohabitation, conspicuous cheating, covert dates, and millions of interested
third parties.
Why couldn't they make it work?
Well, it turns out, there are a lot of reasons these two couldn't last forever outside of
the world of vampires and werewolves.
Faulty foundation
When Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart first got close, Stewart was dating her former
Speak co-star Michael Angarano.
Some reports suggested an overlap, with Stewart and Pattinson being spotted holding hands
just a week before Angarano came to visit Stewart on the Twilight set.
Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke said that she actually felt guilty for enabling
Stewart to step out on her romance with Angarano, telling Vulture, "He's a wonderful actor.
He was in [Lords Of] Dogtown, one of my favorites, so I felt pretty bad because I love him and
they were such a great couple."
Stewart wasn't the only one who brought drama and potential infidelity to the relationship
at its very beginning.
Pattinson was also reportedly hooking up with fellow Twilight star Nikki Reed throughout
the beginning of the franchise's filming and promotional schedules, and only ditched her
when Stewart finally came around.
"He's probably hiding."
"Is he?"
"This is him right now in the bathroom."
And although the on-screen love triangle between Bella, Edward, and Jacob was enough drama
for one franchise, rumors swirled that Reed and Angarano also found comfort with each
other after Stewart and Pattinson started up their off-screen romance.
Cheating scandal
The gossip world seemed to implode when Stewart was busted cheating on Pattinson in the summer
of 2012 with her married Snow White And The Huntsman director Rupert Sanders.
Us Weekly published photos taken of Stewart and Sanders making out all over Los Angeles
and in a car in July, 2012.
In response to the publication, Stewart finally confirmed she was in a relationship with Pattinson
for the first time in her anguished apology statement which read, "I'm deeply sorry for
the hurt and embarrassment I've caused to those close to me and everyone this has affected.
This momentary indiscretion has jeopardized the most important thing in my life, the person
I love and respect the most, Rob.
I love him, I love him, I'm so sorry."
Sources told Us Weekly that Pattinson was, understandably, humiliated by the incident,
but was still in love with Stewart.
Meanwhile, Stewart was reportedly angry at herself and reportedly took full responsibility
for the drama.
But the ripple effects of such exposure took a toll on the fan-frenzied couple later on.
Trust bust
Even though Pattinson took Stewart back about the Sanders snafu, the damage was too severe
to be undone.
By May 2013, the pair were done for good.
Sources told Us Weekly that the pair would often fight about Stewart's infidelity and
alleged selfishness, with one insider noting, "He really put her through the wringer.
Ultimately, it was like, 'Either we move past this or we don't.'
It wasn't good for either of them."
Another source dished that they had a blow-up fight when Pattinson skipped a birthday party
she'd planned for him and that "All this stuff came up about the cheating, about how selfish
she always is, about how moody she always is."
Of course, Stewart may not have been the only player of this duo...
Stepping out
Two wrongs don't make a right, but Robert Pattinson may not have been too innocent during
their relationship, either.
During filming of Cosmopolis in Toronto, Pattinson was accused of hooking up with director David
Cronenberg's daughter, Caitlin, as well as Megan Fox.
As he'd later tell Esquire in 2016, "S--- happens, you know?"
If any of this is true, it certainly makes more sense why Pattinson was so quick to forgive
Stewart, but it also means any distrust between them might've run both ways.
Dimming the glare
Since the breakup, Stewart has been vocal about how much she hated fans' attention on
her relationship with Pattinson.
She told Elle UK in March 2017 that she kept the romance quiet "because everything personal
felt like it was immediately trivialized…We were turned into these characters and placed
into this ridiculous comic book, and I was like, 'That's mine.
You're making my relationship something that it's not.'
I didn't like that."
What's interesting about Stewart's assertion that people turned her relationship "into
a product" is the rampant speculation that her romance with Pattinson was a "showmance"
to increase their public visibility, market their franchise, and advance their careers.
There was even a large subset of the Twilight fan community call "Nonstens" who believed
that their off-screen romance was no more than a publicity stunt at the time.
And it wasn't just Stewart who was turned off by all the unwanted attention.
Pattinson didn't like the infamy attached to the romance either.
"You get into this thing to do movies.
I've never been interested in trying to sell my personal life, and that's really the only
reason people bring it up."
All that constant surveillance of their time spent together obviously took a toll on their
wellbeing as a pair.
Hectic schedules
Once the Twilight saga's filming and promotional tours were done, Stewart and Pattinson moved
onto other projects, and as a result, they simply didn't see each other as much and grew
apart.
A source told Radar Online in late January 2013 that distance was a big issue when Pattinson
filmed The Rover in Australia.
Considering the two split for good just a few months after the film's production, that
amount of distance after so much time spent together may have been the straw that broke
the camel's back at the time.
Lifestyle change
Ever since Robsten called it quits, Pattinson has maintained a long-time relationship with
musician and visual artist FKA Twigs, but Stewart has seemingly given up guys for good.
She's since had very public relationships with several women, including her former assistant
Alicia Cargile, French actress Soko, and Stella Maxwell.
"I'm like so gay, dude."
So, even though she maintained a three-year-long relationship with Pattinson during and after
filming of The Twilight Saga, part of her might not have been ready to make it last
with a man at the time.
Young and hungry
Perhaps the biggest reason why Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart didn't work out is that
they were both very young in their careers and real lives at the time that they got together.
"To share that is great, but at the same time I was 17 or 18 when that all kind of went
down.
And that's like the most uncomfortable, weird… you're like…" (retches)
Like many young couples of high school or college age, settling down with someone for
good isn't always on the agenda, despite the amount of passion a pair may experience together.
With Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, their on-screen and off-screen chemistry might've
been the real deal, but timing is still everything when it comes to finding a forever love like
their on-screen counterparts.
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