As Abba reunite, FEMAIL reveals the A-listers who put bitter break-ups behind them

When you’ve got been by means of a break-up, the last item you need is to be confronted by your ex at each flip, however on the subject of movie star pairings, avoiding one another is not all the time that simple, particularly when there is a massive price range movie to advertise, for instance. 

Last week Abba’s Agnetha Fältskog, 72, and Björn Ulvaeus, 77, reunitied for the first efficiency of ABBA’s ‘Voyage’ at ABBA Arena, final week, in London, greater than 40 years after their divorce. 

Agnetha beforehand admitted she wanted remedy after their break up. which left her emotionally ‘magled’, particularly with Benny shifting on with one other girl only a week after their divorce. 

Similarly their bandmates Benny Andersson, 75, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, 76, went their separate approach in 1980 and the double divorce left followers doubting if the group would ever reunite to make new music. 

However, as different movie star {couples} have proven when the stakes are excessive, generally there isn’t any alternative however to put on a united entrance. 

One of the most infamous exhibits of unity got here from Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart for the The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 premieres. 

Kristen had damaged Robert’s coronary heart months earlier with an affair throughout the summer season of 2012 with married Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders, however with the couple’s real-life romance such an integral a part of the movie’s franchise, it was no surprise they determined to grit their tooth and keep it up. 

The Spencer star later admitted that their relationship had change into a ‘product’ and he or she felt intense public strain to remain collectively. 

Here, Femail reveals the different movie star pairings who put their bitter break-ups behind them.    

Agnetha Fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus

Together from 1971 to 1980

Agnetha, now 72, and Bjorn, 77, first met in 1968 when he was a member of the Hootenanny Singers. They tied the knot on July 6, 1971, with Bjorn even taking part in the organ at their wedding ceremony ceremony.

They had two kids born in 1973 and 1977 however the couple separated in early 1979, and their divorce was finalised in July 1980. Agnetha later revealed that she wanted remedy following the breakup.

It was reported at the time that Bjorn had discovered a brand new girlfriend inside the week of his break up from Agnetha, one other issue that led to her remedy. 

Shortly after this, in 1980, ABBA launched their iconic breakup music, The Winner Takes It All, with Agnetha singing the lyric: ‘Tell me does she kiss like I used to kiss you?’

Later, in 2013, she stated: ‘Bjorn wrote it about us after the breakdown of our marriage. The reality he wrote it precisely once we divorced is touching actually.

‘I did not thoughts. It was improbable to try this music as a result of I might put in such feeling. I did not thoughts sharing it with the public. It did not really feel improper. There is a lot in that music.

The break up slowly induced a breakdown of the songwriting course of and inventive inspiration. 

In 1997, Agnetha launched the e book As I Am, writing: ‘We all the time informed the media that it was a ‘blissful’ divorce, which in fact was a entrance. Obviously everyone knows there aren’t any things like blissful divorces, particularly when there are kids concerned.’

Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Together from 1969 to 1981

Although they obtained collectively earlier than ABBA formally shaped staying collectively throughout the band’s success was laborious and ultimately the band broke up resulting from divorce.

Frida, 76 and Benny, 75, first met in 1969 and have been residing collectively, earlier than getting married in 1978 proper at the coronary heart of ABBA’s worldwide fame.

Two years later, in 1980, they broke up and divorced the following year.

An Expressen interview in 1981, Benny stated: ‘I do not understand how different individuals cope with issues like this.

‘Frida and I are nonetheless mates and I’m nonetheless a member of ABBA. We are nonetheless good mates, however we’re not married anymore.

‘We mentioned what was going to stay in the group despite all we now have been by means of. We determined to remain collectively for the sake of the music.’

Frida stated: ‘Now that Benny and I’ve damaged up, we’re capable of work a lot better collectively. Our relationship will not be as intense because it was, however we’re nonetheless in touch.

‘We have chosen to be fully sincere with one another. We have all the time been very sincere about relationships and after lengthy and laborious talks we determined to go our separate methods.

‘We merely grew out of one another. It got here all the way down to our totally different objectives in life. We have all the time been sincere and talked about all the things. We talked and talked and eventually, we agreed {that a} divorce could be the finest resolution.

‘There was quite a lot of tears and quite a lot of discussions. But there was no approach again. Breaking up grew to become a necessity.’

And so it appeared the band needed to break up too. 

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart

Together 2009 to 2012 

Robert Pattinson, now 36, and Kristen Stewart, 32, started their relationship simply as their fame grew on the massively common Twilight movies. Fans have been in awe of the two’s chemistry on display and off display. 

But in summer season of 2012 Kristen filmed Snow White and the Huntsman and started a steamy affair with its married director Rupert Sanders.

Paparazzi photos have been taken of the two whereas in an embrace and the pictures have been plastered throughout the world’s media.

While the two tried to maintain the relationship going it was on and off once more for the subsequent 12 months earlier than all of it ended by the finish of 2012. 

During the premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, the world was watching as the pair tried to maintain a united entrance. 

Pattinson formally moved out of Kristen’s Los Feliz, California, dwelling in 2013 and again into the Hollywood Hills Spanish Colonial-style residence he purchased in 2012. 

While the pair needed to proceed to work collectively throughout the premiere of the final Twilight installment they remained skilled and all smiles. 

In a 2019 Harper’s Bazaar interview Kristen stated: ‘When me and Rob have been collectively, we didn’t have an instance to go by. So a lot was taken from us that, in making an attempt to regulate one side, we have been identical to, ‘No, we’ll by no means speak about it. Never. Because it is ours.”   

In the New York Times Style Magazine in 2016 she stated: ‘People wished me and Rob to be collectively so badly that our relationship was made right into a product. It wasn’t actual life anymore and that was gross to me. It’s not that I need to cover who I’m or cover something I’m doing in my life. It’s that I do not need to change into part of a narrative for leisure worth.’

Charlize Theron and Sean Penn 

Together 2013 to 2015

Charlize Theron, now 46, and Sean Penn, 61, have been set to stroll down the aisle in 2015, however as a substitute Charlize referred to as off the engagement. 

The couple have been pictured side-by-side in May, 2015, in Vienna at the Life Ball, with rumours of a break up however the precise date of their break up has by no means been confirmed by both celebration.

They have recognized one another for many years, however began their romance in December 2013.

A year into their relationship, Us reported that they had gotten secretly engaged throughout a visit to Paris. An engagement ring was by no means seen, nevertheless, and the two by no means confirmed the reviews.

Charlize had adopted a bit of boy, and in 2015 reviews stated she had labored with an adoption company in the US to additionally undertake an African-American woman.

During the premiere for The Last Face, in 2016, the place Charlize had the starring position and Sean was the director, the two appeared completely skilled and nonetheless very affectionate, clearly sustaining a friendship lengthy after the relationship had ended. 

In 2014 Charlize spoke about her relationship with Sean in a Vogue interview, and stated: ‘It simply sort of naturally occurred, and earlier than I knew it, I used to be in one thing that was making my life higher – the individuals who actually love me can see the impact it has had on me.’

However, throughout an look on the The Howard Stern Show in 2020 the radio host claimed the star ‘virtually obtained married to Sean’ and he or she stated: ‘That’s not true. That’s not true. No. I didn’t ‘virtually get married to Sean.’ That’s such bulls**t. We dated. That was actually all we did.

‘We dated after which we did not date. It was a relationship, for certain. We have been undoubtedly unique, nevertheless it was for barely a year. We by no means moved in or… like, no, I wasn’t gonna marry him. It was nothing like that.’

Blake Lively and Penn Badgley 

Together 2007 to 2010

The Gossip Girl stars Blake Lively, now 34, and Penn Badgley, 35, began relationship in 2007 after meeting on set. They appeared as Dan Humphrey and Serena van der Woodsen on the present for ten years.

Despite loads of incidences the place they have been caught being affectionate in public, the pair initially denied their relationship and insisted they have been simply good mates. They ultimately confirmed their relationship in 2008. 

Even after they break up, cast and crew didn’t know and carrying on professionally with scenes whereas the two had gone their separate methods. The couple appeared to nonetheless be on pleasant phrases as they typically strolled the streets of Manhattan between filming scenes.

They needed to proceed working collectively for one more two years on the hit TV present.

Penn stated the pair have been ‘in the end skilled’ on set after their September 2010 break-up.

In an interview with Elle Magazine in 2013, Penn stated: ‘We have been very a lot caught up in the present, which itself was a six-year endurance check. Our relationship was part of that and helped us by means of it. I imply, like something precious, it was good and it was unhealthy and it was a studying expertise.’

Blake spoke about her relationship with Penn to Vanity Fair in 2017: ‘I keep in mind there was one level the place we have been simply afraid of how our personal lives overlapping our work life could possibly be perceived by our bosses. [But then] we have been like, ‘Oh no, that is precisely what they need.’ They wished us all up to now. They wished us all to put on the identical garments that we’re sporting on the present. They wished that, as a result of then it fed their entire narrative. People might purchase into this world.

‘At the time, I used to be sporting the identical garments and doing style shoots, and relationship the identical individual that my character was relationship—or generally that particular person [Dan] was my brother, you by no means know with Serena—and due to that, what individuals have been projecting onto me was that I used to be Serena. 

‘We look the identical, and we acted the identical so far as they may inform, as a result of I wasn’t doing something however that present. If [Penn and I] have been photographed strolling down the avenue, they did not know if it was a paparazzi shot or if it was a shot from the present.’ 

Dominic Cooper and Amanda Seyfried 

Together 2008 to 2011 

Dominic Cooper, now 43, and Amanda Seyfried, 36, began relationship in 2007 after meeting on the set of the first Mamma Mia! movie, wherein they performed an engaged couple. 

They break up in 2011, however reprised their roles in 2018 as Sophie and Sky, who are married, in the sequel Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

In 2018 Dominic spoke about Amanda in Attitude journal and stated: ‘She’s a buddy. It was all the time going to be OK. You simply must be delicate with these conditions.

‘We knew we have been going to be working collectively [again] on a set, going again to an element which was actually going to remind us of 10 years earlier, however I do know her household, I do know her mum, who was there lots. It was a nice ambiance. It was actually fascinating to see how totally different our lives are after 10 years.’ 

Amanda stated that falling for a co-star is ‘one among the best issues in the world,’ and, ‘you are put in a state of affairs the place it’s a must to make out with one another. It’s simple for issues to get carried away.’  

In 2016, she met Thomas Sadoski and the two married in 2017. The couple now have a son and daughter collectively.

Dominic went on up to now his co-star Ruth Negga from their movie Preacher nevertheless it resulted in 2018, and he’s now relationship fellow English actor Gemma Chan.

In 2011 Amanda did an interview with Elle journal and spoke about her relationship with Dominic, she stated: ‘I obtained my coronary heart damaged fairly laborious. After that, it is actually laborious to open myself as much as a brand new particular person. Really laborious.

But speaking about their future, she added: ‘We love one another… He’ll all the time be in my life no matter what his girlfriends or future spouse assume. I’m by no means going to be with a man that may’t cope with my friendship with him.’

Joey King and Jacob Elordi 

Together 2017 to 2018

Joey King, now 22, and Jacob Elordi, 24, began as mates earlier than their relationship grew to become romantic whereas filming The Kissing Booth in South Africa in 2017. Their relationship grew to become Instagram official in April 2017 when Jacob posted a photograph of them in entrance of the Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles.

In August 2017, King opened up about her relationship to Elordi in an interview with Us Weekly at the 2018 Teen Choice Awards. By that point, the couple had been relationship for greater than a year. In her interview with Us Weekly, King revealed that Elordi being an actor like her was a optimistic of their relationship.

‘You know what, truly it does assist,’ she stated at the time. ‘It helps to have any person by your facet, cheering you on, who is aware of what you are going by means of and who’s been by means of it themselves.’

In November 2018 hypothesis began about their relationship when Elordi introduced on his Instagram Stories that he was taking a break from social media. He later deleted his Instagram completely. 

After that, King took to her Twitter with a cryptic tweet that satisfied followers the two have been over. ‘Thank god I’ve my canine tho,’ she tweeted at the time. 

Less than a year later, King and Elordi reunited for The Kissing Booth 2.

In October 2019, in an interview on the ‘Mood With Lauren Elizabeth’ King opened up about what it was wish to movie along with her ex for the sequel. 

‘It’s an important film. I personally am a fan of the way it resonated with the world and it resonated with me. So going again, and doing that, and making the sacrifice, clearly, what everybody is considering. I’m not outwardly addressing, however what I’m kinda on the sly addressing, making these sacrifices was completely value it.’

Jack White and Meg White

Together 1996 to 2000

Jack White, now 46, and Meg White, 47, met in a restaurant in Detroit have been Meg was working and Jack Gillis, his unique title at the time, would go to. Soon they started relationship and married in September 1996. 

Meg performed Jack’s drums for the first time in 1997 and it was stated she was a pure. The two quickly grew to become The White Stripes and performed their first gig at the Gold Dollar in Detroit.

Jack and Meg first introduced themselves as siblings to the Michigan’s underground, storage rock music scene. 

They launched their debut album in 1999, and a year later adopted up with a second. But as their success constructed their marriage fell aside they usually divorced in 2000.

They claimed to be brother and sister for years till a Detroit newspaper blew their cover in 2002 saying they have been ex husband and spouse printing their marriage certificates. 

At the time Jack was quoted as saying: ‘Frankly, we’re sort of drained with all the consideration on the brother-sister factor. The White Stripes are about the music, and we do not need that to be lost.’ 

The two continued to play stay collectively and loved big success. They constructed an unconventional friendship by means of their love of music, and Meg’s second marriage in 2009 was held in Jack’s yard in his Nashville dwelling.

In February 2011, the band reported on their official web site they have been disbanding they usually by no means wrote any extra music or performed stay collectively once more.

The Rolling Stones printed in 2005 that they ‘have been an image of a exceptional bond’. Jack stated: ‘It will all the time be us two, I’ll by no means do the White Stripes with one other drummer. She’ll by no means do it with one other guitarist.’ 

Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton 

Together 2001 to 2014    

Helena Bonham Carter, 56, and Tim Burton, 63, have been collectively for 13 years, had two kids Billy, now 18, and Nell, 14, collectively however by no means obtained married, as a substitute residing in two adjoining homes in London all through their romance. They introduced their break up simply earlier than Christmas in 2014.

They first met when he directed her in the 2001 movie ‘Planet of the Apes.’ Since then the pair have labored on 9 films collectively, together with ‘Sweeney Todd’.

During an interview with the Guardian in 2020, she stated: ‘It’s taken us a while to regulate, however I feel it is actually superb now. And the children are wonderful, they get to have a twin life. At first it is a horrible factor to get used to, not having your kids round [when you share custody]. The cruelty of divorce is extraordinary. But then you definitely get to some extent the place you are like, Oh, I get this week off! Some elements are very a lot to be really helpful.

‘I do assume there’s a degree the place individuals match for a sure time, generally, and when you can, you recognise that you simply’ve given what you may, and also you’re going to cease one another from evolving,’

On lastly shifting on, she admitted she grew uninterested in ‘grieving’ their relationship, and now leads a ‘blissful’ life along with her new boyfriend. ‘You break up, you grieve, you become bored with grieving. And then you definitely lastly transfer on.’

Speaking to the Grounded With Louis Theroux podcast in 2022, she stated: ‘We had quite a lot of laughs however there have been occasions when working collectively was not harmonious. We weren’t very argumentative as a pair besides on Sweeney.’

In 2016 they labored collectively on the movie Alice Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to 2010’s massively profitable Alice in Wonderland, however the two have been by no means seen collectively professionally once more. 

There’s presently no reviews of any future tasks between the two.