Scarlett Johansson has opened up about her relationship with ‘remarkable’ Sean Penn for the first time, admitting they were seeing each other.
The 27-year-old Hollywood actress is usually tight-lipped when it comes to her private life but in this latest interview with US Vogue magazine, she also speaks of her ‘heartbreaking’ divorce from Ryan Reynolds.
Scarlett and Mystic River actor Penn were romantically linked last year following her split from husband Ryan.
They reportedly dated for six months before parting ways in July 2011 but neither party have ever talked about their relationship until now.
Speaking of Sean, who is 24 years her senior, Scarlett said: ‘We spent time together, yeah. I never put a title on it, really, but we were seeing each other.
‘He’s a remarkable person. He really is.’
Scarlett, who stars in new movie We Bought A Zoo alongside Matt Damon, also spoke of her two year marriage to Reynolds, who she married in September 2008.
Expressing her sadness at the end of their romance, she told the magazine: ‘[The divorce] was horrible. Of course it’s horrible. It was devastating.
‘It really throws you. You think that you’re life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn’t work out.’
She continued: ‘This was something I never thought I would be doing. And there’s no way to navigate it. Nobody can give you the right answer. It’s never anything you want to hear. It’s a very lonely thing. It’s like the loneliest thing you’ll ever do, in some way.’
But despite the pain, Scarlett has no regrets about their marriage, which she described as a ‘beautiful thing’ while admitting she’s still not over their split.
‘The falling in love and getting married and making that commitment. I think it’s nice to know that you’re capable of loving somebody in that way. I think it’s a rare opportunity,’ she said before adding: ‘I don’t feel on the other side of it completely, but it gets better. It’s still there.’
Now she is looking to the future with her new boyfriend, advertising executive Nate Naylor.
And he’s bound to think himself lucky as last night Scarlett wowed on the red carpet of her latest film The Avengers. Wearing a knee-length black dress with an arched neckline, she wore her hair up as she posed for photographers.
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