Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin have reportedly ended their eight-year-long relationship.
Multiple sources confirmed to People on June 4 that the couple has split, with one source telling the outlet, “It feels final this time.” Since confirming their romance in 2017, the couple had broken up a few times, according to reports; however, they were spotted together just last month. They were also believed to have been engaged for several years, though both parties chose to keep the details of their relationship private.
One thing Johnson was open about was her relationship with Martin’s children, Apple and Moses, from his relationship with Gwyneth Paltrow. “I love those kids like my life depends on it,” Johnson told Bustle in 2024. “With all my heart.” She likened her relationship with Martin’s kids and his ex to her own blended family: “I think because I grew up in that, it’s come more naturally, but I wouldn’t have it any other way really,” she said. “I really wouldn’t. I love it. It feels very honest. It feels really authentic. No one’s hiding anything.”
Back in 2020, Paltrow told Harper’s Bazaar, “I can see how [our friendship] would seem weird because it’s sort of unconventional. But I think, in this case, just having passed through it iteratively, I just adore her. I always start to think of the ampersand sign—what else can you bring in, instead of being resistant to or being made insecure by? There’s so much juice in leaning into something like that.” Paltrow even shared a photo of herself and Johnson holding hands on Instagram.
Reps for Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin haven’t commented on the breakup so far, though Johnson is in the middle of a press tour for her latest film, Materialists, which hits theaters June 13.
While promoting the film, a romantic comedy by writer-director Celine Song, Johnson reflected on relationships in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “For a long time we’ve all been so quick to judge relationships or how they should happen, how they should exist in the world,” she said. “When people should get married. Divorce is bad. All these things that actually, if you think about it, why is divorce bad? Why do people have to get married or at a certain age or only once? Why? It doesn’t matter.”
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