Robert Pattinson’s Dating History: Kristen Stewart, FKA Twigs and More

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Robert Pattinson's Dating History: Kristen Stewart, FKA Twigs and More

From Twilight to Twigs! Robert Pattinson rose to stardom as a brooding romantic lead — and his love life off screen is anything but predictable. Following his turn as Cedric Diggory in the fourth and fifth Harry Potter films, the British actor nabbed his biggest role as Edward Cullen in the Twilight franchise. The first of the vampire drama flicks debuted in 2008, and one year later, Pattinson was linked to costar Kristen Stewart. After nearly four years of dating, the duo called it quits after the Personal Shopper star sparked cheating rumors with Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders. “It was incredibly painful. … Relationships — you just never f—king know,” Stewart told The Daily Beast of her public breakup in September 2015. The Happiest Season actress continued, “If you’ve been hurt — you know when you’ve broken up with someone and you look at someone walking down the street holding hands and think, ‘Ugh, give it a f—kin’ year. Let me know how you feel in a year.’” Four years later, Stewart reflected on the highs and lows of dating in the spotlight. “When me and Rob were together, we did not have an example to go by,” she told Harper’s Bazaar U.K. in September 2019. “So much was taken from us that, in trying to control one aspect, we were just like, ‘No, we will never talk about it. Never. Because it’s ours.'” After his relationship with the Charlie's Angels star fizzled out, Pattinson pursued a romance with British musician FKA Twigs (born Tahliah Barnett). The pair got engaged in April 2015 after six months of dating, but two years later, they called it quits. [jwplayer bo4O1X7g-l3ahXupL] “When you’re with somebody, your lives become very entwined, with like, your friends and family, your routine. And then the unmeshing is, like, you have to really find out — well, I had to really find out who I was,” the “Two Weeks” singer told Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats 1 in November 2019. “I’ve always known who I am, but it’s just kind of discovering who I was in adult crisis.” Though both of his most high-profile relationships ended in heartbreak, the Lighthouse actor told the Sunday Times in April 2019 that he’s still on good terms with both Stewart and Twigs — and revealed why he tends to keep his love life on the down-low. Us Weekly broke the news in August 2018 that Pattinson had moved on with Suki Waterhouse, but the twosome’s romance has been relatively private. “If you put up a wall it ends up better,” the Batman star told the outlet at the time. “I can’t understand how someone can walk down the street holding hands, and it’s the same as when I do it and a hundred people are taking your photo. The line between when you’re performing and when you’re not will eventually get washed away and you’ll go completely mad.” Keep scrolling to learn more about Pattinson’s famous — or rumored — flings: [podcast_block]

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Robert Pattinson's Dating History: Kristen Stewart, FKA Twigs and More

From Twilight to Twigs! Robert Pattinson rose to stardom as a brooding romantic lead — and his love life off screen is anything but predictable. Following his turn as Cedric Diggory in the fourth and fifth Harry Potter films, the British actor nabbed his biggest role as Edward Cullen in the Twilight franchise. The first of the vampire drama flicks debuted in 2008, and one year later, Pattinson was linked to costar Kristen Stewart. After nearly four years of dating, the duo called it quits after the Personal Shopper star sparked cheating rumors with Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders. “It was incredibly painful. … Relationships — you just never f—king know,” Stewart told The Daily Beast of her public breakup in September 2015. The Happiest Season actress continued, “If you’ve been hurt — you know when you’ve broken up with someone and you look at someone walking down the street holding hands and think, ‘Ugh, give it a f—kin’ year. Let me know how you feel in a year.’” Four years later, Stewart reflected on the highs and lows of dating in the spotlight. “When me and Rob were together, we did not have an example to go by,” she told Harper’s Bazaar U.K. in September 2019. “So much was taken from us that, in trying to control one aspect, we were just like, ‘No, we will never talk about it. Never. Because it’s ours.'” After his relationship with the Charlie's Angels star fizzled out, Pattinson pursued a romance with British musician FKA Twigs (born Tahliah Barnett). The pair got engaged in April 2015 after six months of dating, but two years later, they called it quits. [jwplayer bo4O1X7g-l3ahXupL] “When you’re with somebody, your lives become very entwined, with like, your friends and family, your routine. And then the unmeshing is, like, you have to really find out — well, I had to really find out who I was,” the “Two Weeks” singer told Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats 1 in November 2019. “I’ve always known who I am, but it’s just kind of discovering who I was in adult crisis.” Though both of his most high-profile relationships ended in heartbreak, the Lighthouse actor told the Sunday Times in April 2019 that he’s still on good terms with both Stewart and Twigs — and revealed why he tends to keep his love life on the down-low. Us Weekly broke the news in August 2018 that Pattinson had moved on with Suki Waterhouse, but the twosome’s romance has been relatively private. “If you put up a wall it ends up better,” the Batman star told the outlet at the time. “I can’t understand how someone can walk down the street holding hands, and it’s the same as when I do it and a hundred people are taking your photo. The line between when you’re performing and when you’re not will eventually get washed away and you’ll go completely mad.” Keep scrolling to learn more about Pattinson’s famous — or rumored — flings: [podcast_block]

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Nina Schubert

Before he was a big Hollywood star, Pattinson dated the girl next door. The pair reportedly called it quits in 2006 after three years of dating when the Water for Elephants actor made the move from the U.K. to L.A.

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Nikki Reed

At the height of their Twilight fame, some fans were convinced that Pattinson and Reed had a real-life fling. The O.C. alum, however, was quick to shut down the rumors. “I can’t win,” she told Seventeen in 2009. “A few weeks ago I was at this event, and they said, ‘You missed Rob’s birthday, how do you feel?’ And I said, ‘I called him, it’s fine.’ And they wrote, ‘She’s clearly bitter over the breakup.’ I’m like, what breakup? Rob and I were never together.”

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Kristen Stewart

While it may not have been with Reed, Pattinson did spark a romance with a Twilight costar. The former Harry Potter actor was first linked to Stewart in mid-2009 and the pair dated for nearly four years — until the Panic Room star was photographed with Sanders, igniting rumors of infidelity.

“I hated it that details of my life were being turned into a commodity and peddled around the world,” Stewart told the Sunday Times in March 2017. “But considering I had so many eyes on me, I suddenly realized [my private life] affects a greater number of people than just me.”

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Dylan Penn

Pattinson was briefly linked to the daughter of Sean Penn and Robin Wright in 2013, but the model maintained that they were strictly platonic. “We’re just friends,” she told Vanity Fair two years later. “They photographed us in a place where there were other people and cropped the picture. Silly. I laughed about it.”

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FKA Twigs

The Good Time star moved on with the “Cellophane” songstress in September 2014, and the duo were engaged within six months. They later split in 2017. Twigs opened up about experiencing “really, really deeply horrific” racism from fans during her time with Pattinson in January 2021, recalling on the “Grounded” podcast, “He was their white Prince Charming and they considered he should be with someone white and blonde and not me.”

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Suki Waterhouse

Us broke the news in August 2018 that Pattinson had been dating the model “for months” and were “both really cool, nice and normal people and fun-loving.” Though they’ve kept much of their romance under wraps, the twosome have stepped out together on several occasions. In 2019, the King star described his desire to leave his relationship out of the spotlight.

“If you let people in, it devalues what love is,” he told the Sunday Times. “If a stranger on the street asked you about your relationship, you’d think it extremely rude. If you put up a wall it ends up better.”