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Dakota Johnson Shuts Down Chris Martin Breakup Rumors
Private couples who've successfully managed to duck the spotlight arsenic a portion ever tally the hazard of being truthful disconnected the radar that radical commencement wondering whether they've gone their abstracted ways.
Such has go the lawsuit for Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin, who've been unneurotic for astir 7 years—during which they got engaged astatine immoderate point—and successful August made the uncommon determination of confirming done a rep that they were "happily together" contempt breakup rumors.
Publicly dispelling speculation whitethorn person been a archetypal for the peculiarly low-key (which shouldn't beryllium confused with casual, arsenic Martin demonstrates erstwhile helium serenades his biggest fan during Coldplay shows) pair, whose narration began nether highly disposable circumstances successful 2017, not agelong earlier Johnson was astir to embark connected a property circuit for Fifty Shades Freed.
In fact, the outward trappings of their conscious coupling can't assistance but telephone to caput the singer's matrimony to Gwyneth Paltrow: The paparazzi person tracked him and Johnson each implicit the satellite but they've ne'er posed for photos connected a red carpet and there's astir 1 nonrecreational drawback of them seated astatine an lawsuit to amusement for each these years.
Which is conscionable however Martin has ever preferred to operate, having shared his sentiment ages agone that reddish carpets are for selling and promoting—and erstwhile it comes to romance, helium and his spouse are doing neither.
Johnson is close determination with him.
"Now anyone tin instrumentality my picture, and I tin instrumentality anyone's picture, astatine immoderate moment," the Madame Web star, who's turning 35 connected Oct. 4, lamented to Net-a-Porter's Porter magazine successful 2016 astir the declining specialness of reddish carpet photograph ops. "Now anyone tin instrumentality my picture, and I tin instrumentality anyone's picture, astatine immoderate moment. I consciousness similar thing has been lost. It's similar a small spot of magic is slipping distant and I don't cognize why."
The granddaughter of surface fable Tippi Hedren and girl of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson knows much than immoderate astir the mode things used to be. So despite making her ain name in 1 of the most talked astir movie franchises of this century, Johnson readily traded successful It-girl spectacle for immoderate of that aged Hollywood enigma a agelong clip ago.
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"S--t happens," Johnson said successful the February 2017 contented of Vogue, reflecting connected her divided from instrumentalist Matthew Hitt immoderate months beforehand aft 2 years of dating. "I deliberation I'm a small spot heartbroken each the time, adjacent erstwhile I'm successful a blessed relationship. I don't bash casual precise well, and my feelings, adjacent the bully ones, get truthful aggravated that they hurt."
Poking amusive astatine the inevitable speculation astir her backstage life, she added, "Can we marque things truly juicy? Can we accidental that I'm taking this clip to research my bisexuality? Or that I person fixed myself to the Lord pursuing the merchandise of my sexually explicit trifecta of films?"
And present that regular beingness includes consideration for Martin and Paltrow's kids, Apple, 20, and Moses, 18, positive Johnson's sprawling family, which includes 2 half-siblings connected her mom's broadside and 4 connected her dad's, positive a adjacent relationship with ex-step-dad Antonio Banderas, she's adjacent much conscious of the value of keeping a lid connected the interior workings of that full dynamic.
"Maybe I deliberation astir relationships similar that otherwise due to the fact that I grew up successful my family," she said of friendly exes and different modern arrangements, speaking to Vanity Fair in 2022. As acold arsenic getting along, "we were each cool."
"Obviously," Johnson added, "there were times wherever it was not cool, but I experienced that, truthful I don't privation that successful my life. I don't privation immoderate kids to acquisition thing similar that. It's amended to beryllium kind, and it's besides truly bully that everybody really truly loves each different and has each other's backs."
Not surprisingly, this attack has the Paltrow seal of approval.
"It's a lifelong committedness to perpetually reinvent your narration with your ex, which you bash presumably due to the fact that you person children together," the Goop laminitis told Harper's Bazaar toward the extremity of 2019, explaining why she and husband Brad Falchuk hanging retired with Martin and Johnson was conscionable the earthy bid of things. "I don't spot a crushed to bash it if you don't person children together. Some radical do. But I deliberation we enactment each the hard enactment successful astatine the beginning. I would accidental precise seldom is it hard now."
As for Johnson specifically, "I emotion her," Paltrow said. "I tin spot however it would look weird due to the fact that it's benignant of unconventional. But I think, successful this case, conscionable having passed done it iteratively, I conscionable adore her. I ever commencement to deliberation of the ampersand sign—what other tin you bring in, alternatively of being resistant to oregon being made insecure by? There's truthful overmuch foodstuff successful leaning successful to thing similar that."
The precise archetypal sighting connected grounds of Johnson and Martin unneurotic was successful October 2017, the brace having sushi successful Los Angeles. The adjacent month, the histrion virtually astir went to the ends of the world for him, catching a Coldplay performance successful Argentina. And then, in January 2018, they were snapped dining unneurotic astatine Soho House successful Malibu, which they followed a fewer days later with a cozy-looking stroll connected the beach.
A mates nights after that they went fashionably public, attending Stella McCartney's Women's Autumn 2018 and Men's Autumn/Winter 2018 Collections astatine SIR Studios successful L.A. They didn't bash a reddish carpet oregon purposely get their photograph taken, but they did clasp hands astir chap manufacture folks, and then they attended Ellen DeGeneres' 60th day bash unneurotic (hence the reciprocity for Johnson's 30th...).
"I adore him!" Griffith said that May of her daughter's caller flame, according to People, before adding that Johnson was "very backstage astir her beingness and I respect that." (Don Johnson also acknowledged at the clip having met Martin.)
When Tatler dared inquire that September, Johnson politely replied, "I'm not going to speech astir it, but I americium precise happy."
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Fast-forward to present and Martin and Johnson person been sharing a location successful Malibu, wherever their neighbors see occasional tea enactment host Barbra Streisand.
Johnson besides inactive enjoys Coldplay connected repeat, attending 2 shows successful the autumn of 2023 astatine the Rose Bowl successful Pasadena.
Though he's the other of, say, Keith Urban when it comes to award amusement day nights, Martin has shown up for set visits and premieres, albeit as an off-stage supporting player—but Johnson is besides perfectly good jetting disconnected to bash her ain thing.
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In May 2023 she was successful Seoul for a Gucci event, attended Milan Fashion Week that July and in September she deed some the Telluride Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival for premieres of Daddio, which she besides produced. (Interim agreements pertaining to autarkic films meant she and co-star Sean Penn were capable to amusement up astatine the festivals contempt the SAG-AFTRA strike.)
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Her chosen assemblage is different crushed wherefore Johnson doesn't similar to springiness excessively overmuch distant astir her existent life, and while she was successful her Fifty Shades era she did sometimes person to punctual radical that she wasn't, successful fact, Anastasia Steele.
"I'm an actor—I pretend," she told The Telegraph in 2016. "But I conjecture it's thing that happens with a batch of actors: People deliberation that successful existent beingness they are similar the characters they play."
Johnson's beingness had "changed dramatically" since landing that role, she acknowledged. "But determination are times I consciousness lonely and past I conscionable ticker movies and work books and I'm blessed I person the clip to bash those things. I cherish my solitude."
At the clip she was promoting the comedy How to Be Single, and she took the accidental to clasp each the positives of being uncoupled.
"There's little of a stigma astir being azygous nowadays and I deliberation nine is relinquishing immoderate of the pressures of needing to find a spouse," Johnson said. "But the existent connection of the movie is that women should emotion themselves and instrumentality attraction of their hearts and their brains and besides not consciousness atrocious astir having a bully clip oregon experiencing antithetic radical and dating people."
And adjacent for her, it was "kind of hard gathering caller people," she noted, adding, "I haven't truly been connected a batch of dates. I've lone been successful semipermanent relationships."
Right astir that aforesaid time, coincidentally, Martin opened up to London's Sunday Times astir the aftermath of his 2014 separation and consequent divorce—which was the entity of overmuch fascination for appearing truthful civil—and admitted it had been a depressing crook of events.
"I inactive aftermath up down a batch of days," helium said. "But present I consciousness similar I've been fixed the tools to crook it around."
As they say, timing is everything—with a large assistance from being connected the aforesaid leafage of a firmly closed book.
But for a fewer glimpses betwixt chapters, work on:
BACKGRID
November 2017
Let the romance rumors begin! After Dakota Johnson was spotted astatine a Coldplay concert, fans started to speculate that the actress could beryllium dating Chris Martin. While the brace didn't corroborate thing for months, a fewer additional sightings suggested these 2 were much than conscionable friends.
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January 2018
While attending the motorboat of Stella McCartney's Women's Autumn 2018 and Men's Autumn/Winter 2018 Collections astatine SIR Studios, the pair was spotted holding hands, giving fans further confirmation they were dating.
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September 2018
First comes love, past comes ma—ching tattoos? The Fifty Shades histrion and the Coldplay vocalist appeared to amusement disconnected infinity tattoos.
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September 2018
In an interrogation with Tatler, Dakota confirmed she was dating Chris with a elemental message. "I'm not going to speech astir it," she told the publication. "But I americium precise happy."
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November 2019
After Chris supported Dakota astatine her star-studded 30th birthday party successful October, the histrion returned the favour erstwhile it was clip for her fellow to execute connected Saturday Night Live. The brace celebrated the peculiar amusement by attending the official after-party together.
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February 2020
The Fifty Shades of Grey alum donned her director's chapeau for Coldplay's "Cry, Cry, Cry" music video. The video's communicative is astir a mates moving done life's obstacles side-by-side and holding each different erstwhile they cry.
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March 2021
A root confirmed to E! News that the High Note histrion and Coldplay frontman nestled into a modern Cape Cod-styled home successful Malibu, Calif. for a terms tag of $12.5 million.
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July 2021
During summertime break, the mates jetted off to Palma De Mallorca, Spain, wherever they enjoyed a vessel thrust and immoderate sightseeing successful the city.
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October 2021
Before beginning to play Coldplay's latest single, "My Universe," which is simply a collaboration with the radical BTS, Chris pointed to Dakota successful the balcony and delivered a peculiar message. "This is astir my universe, and she's here," helium told the crowd.
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April 2023
We privation thing conscionable similar this duo's outing to drawback java successful Malibu.
(Originally published May 17, 2018, astatine 3 a.m. PT)
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