Kristen Stewart Talks 'Painful' Time After Split From Robert Pattinson
The duo split for good in 2013.
— -- While promoting her new film "Equals" in Toronto, Kristen Stewart talked about the "painful" time following her split from Robert Pattinson, which just happened to be when she made this movie.
Her co-star in "Equals," Nicholas Hoult, had just split from Jennifer Lawrence, so she said the duo had a lot in common.
“It was incredibly painful,” Stewart told The Daily Beast. “Ugh, f----- kill me. It was a really good time for both of us to make this movie. Not all of my friends have been through what I’ve been through, or what some people have tasted at a relatively-speaking young age, and we were not expected to do anything. Everything that we did was explorative, and a meditation on what we already knew.”
She added, "We all felt akin by how much we’ve been through, and to utilize that is so scary. And to acknowledge it, reassess, and jump back into it? Usually you want to move on. But at least we could use some of that for some good."
Stewart said "you just never f----- know" with relationships following the "Twilight" couple's split from 2013. The duo had already broken up after Stewart had admitted to a tryst with her "Snow White and the Huntsman" director Rupert Sanders, but got back together, only to split again.
"Equals" is a film about over-medication and Stewart said she feels like "It’s a good time to tell this story, I suppose, but I still think that this fear of being subject to one’s emotions has existed forever."
"The medication aspect I find most interesting. I know a lot of people on meds who don’t have mental health issues. Not all emotional issues are 'mental health issues.'” she said. "Why lessen the feeling of anything? Why numb yourself? I’m not on antidepressants. I think it’s bizarre."
Stewart also recalled her first kiss, being that she and Hoult share a steamy moment in "Equals."
"It was horrible! It was so bad. It was f----- repulsive. I was 14 and it was gross. It was not good," she added.
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