You go for a dip in the pool and when you come up for air, you don't have a boyfriend anymore.
That's how one Hollywood power couple ended an eight-year romance, and that's just the start.
Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet dropped a bomb on fans when they announced they were separating
in January 2022.
The "Aquaman" star shared the news in a since-deleted Instagram post, which affectionately noted,
"We have all felt the squeeze and changes of these transformational times ... And so
we share our Family news that we are parting ways in marriage."
According to Pop Sugar, the pair first met in 2005 and welcomed two children — a daughter
named Lola and a son who they named Nakoa-Wolf.
But, for Momoa and Bonet, it wasn't until 2017 that they decided it was time to make
things official and tie the knot.
Three years before the duo called it quits, Momoa lovingly told Esquire that Bonet was
his "childhood crush."
He elaborated on the Late Late Show,
"Ever since I was like eight years old and I saw her on TV, I was like mommy, I want that one.
I'm going to stalk you for the rest of my life, and I'm going to get you."
In June 2022, the Spanish podcast "Mamarazzis" shockingly claimed that Shakira caught her
longtime boyfriend and father of their two children, Gerard Pique, having an affair.
While, neither the singer nor the professional soccer star had addressed the allegations,
they did share a joint statement with Reuters that they were splitting after 11 years.
It read,
"We regret to confirm that we are separating.
For the wellbeing of our children, who are our highest priority, we ask that you respect their privacy."
The former couple has always been relatively quiet regarding their relationship, with Shakira
sharing only a few images here and there on Instagram of the two during happier times.
Although they never tied the knot, they welcomed two sons.
In 2020, the two did a joint interview with "60 Minutes" wherein they elaborated on why
marriage was never for them.
Shakria shared,
"To tell you the truth, marriage scares the…
out of me."
She continued,
"I don't want him to see me as 'the wife.'
I'd rather him see me as ... his lover, his girlfriend.
It's like a little forbidden fruit, you know?
I want to keep him on his toes."
Alexis Bledel and her husband of eight years, Vincent Kartheiser, have always kept their
marriage private.
The pair rarely talked about their relationship to the press.
So it came as a surprise when Us Weekly reported that Kartheiser had filed for divorce from
the "Gilmore Girls" actor in August.
According to People, the two stars met on the set of "Mad Men" in 2012 and secretly
wed in 2014.
In 2014, Kartheiser did give some insight about keeping their romance out of the public eye.
He told Vulture,
"It's something I realized about the most important things in my life.
If I share them with the world and I open that door to their fuming anger that they
need to get out or their adoration that they want to flaunt, it lessens it.
It cheapens it; it weakens it.
And it's magical, love, and all of that is ... profoundly spiritual, and it just doesn't
feel right."
When the couple made things official around 2019, people couldn't stop talking about Florence
Pugh's relationship with Zach Braff.
The pair were criticized for their 21-year age difference, leading the "Midsommar" star
to defend their relationship in an Instagram post in April 2020 saying,
"I am 24 years old.
I do not need you to tell me who I should and should not love."
In the September 2022 issue of Harper's Bazaar, Pugh sadly revealed that her romance with
the "Scrubs" star had crumbled beneath the intense judgment, and had ended earlier in
the year, saying,
"We've been trying to do this separation without the world knowing because it's been a relationship
that everybody has an opinion on.
We just felt something like this would really do us the benefit of not having millions of
people tell us how happy they are that we're not together."
"I was just thinking like, "heard about this BDE.
Need to get out there.
I was basically just DTF."
Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson first sparked dating rumors a month after her "Saturday
Night Live" appearance in October 2021, where the two shared a kiss.
Then, in February 2022, the comedian let the cat out of the bag that the reality star was
his girlfriend during an interview with People.
By March, Kardashian had made it Instagram official after posting multiple photos with
the actor.
The couple made several red carpet appearances together, including the White House Correspondents'
Dinner in April and the Met Gala in May, where Kardashian wore Marilyn Monroe's famous "Happy
Birthday, Mr. President" dress.
Although they had a 13-year age difference between them and Kardashian's ex-husband Kanye
West constantly bashed Davidson on social media, the couple appeared enamored with one another.
E! News reported that the couple called it quits in August after nine months of dating.
An insider told Page Six that Kardashian, who mothers four kids, split from Davidson
after feeling burnt out by the relationship.
"Pete is 28 and Kim is 41 — they are just in very different places at the moment,"
Meanwhile, Us Weekly reported that their split was amicable, with a source adding,
"They had a lot of fun together and they can look back with fond memories."
The year 2022 didn't start as Emma Roberts and Garrett Hedlund would have probably imagined
when they announced their split after almost three years together.
The couple reportedly struck up a romance around March 2019 after Roberts split from
her "American Horror Story" co-star Evan Peters, and by June 2020, they surprised fans with
the news that Roberts was expecting.
The pair welcomed a son named Rhodes in December 2020, with Hedlund excited about fatherhood.
In July 2021, he told Extra,
"It was every day all day with mister young man.
My favorite part of every day was the bedtime stories…
me telling him stories of his grandfathers, which was wonderful for me and hopefully for him."
Us Weekly reported that their split came amidst Hedlund's addiction issues, which he'd allegedly
experienced for years.
Roberts was said to have given her ex-partner several ultimatums before the pair amicably separated.
After going Instagram official in January 2021, "Black Panther" actor Michael B. Jordan
and Lori Harvey, the daughter of Steve Harvey, couldn't stop flaunting their relationship
on social media.
In September 2021, Lori gushed about her relationship with the actor to the ladies on "The Real."
"We just really balance each other, and I really do believe in the statement, you know,
when they say, 'When you know, you know.'
And I think that really applies to our situation."
While interviewing her father for Paper Magazine in February 2022, Jordan was asked if he loved
Lori.
The actor admitted,
"Oh, man.
I do.
For sure."
So, it came as a complete shock when the duo called it quits in June 2022, just three months
after they made their red carpet debut as a couple at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
As to why they broke up, a source suggested to ET,
"They were at different stages in their lives.
The two of them are trying to move on, but they're both heartbroken and upset."
In April 2022, Tish and Billy Ray Cyrus announced they were divorcing after almost 30 years of marriage.
Miley Cyrus' mom and dad are no strangers to filing divorce documents, with the "Achy
Breaky Heart" singer filing back in October 2010 but later dropping it.
Three years later, Tish also filed for divorce, but they decided to work on their marriage.
Speaking about reconciling, they told ET,
"We both woke up and realized we love each other and decided we want to stay together.
We both went to couples therapy, something we haven't done in 22 years of being together,
and it's brought us closer together and really opened up our communication in amazing ways."
According to TMZ, the divorce paperwork states Tish had not lived with Billy Ray for over
two years and is asking to distribute all assets equally — so, it might just be the real deal.
The former couple even issued a joint statement that read,
"It is after 30 years, five amazing children, and a lifetime of memories, we have decided
to go our separate ways — not with sadness, but with love in our hearts."
Natasha Lyonne broke up with her boyfriend of seven years, Fred Armisen, over talks of
a swimming pool.
Lyonne confirmed the break-up during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in April.
She revealed that the two had been living together in Los Angeles, and had continued
to throughout quarantine when they hit upon the apparent dealbreaker.
She said,
"Freddy doesn't like a swimming pool.
It might seem like a mundane reason for a breakup, but during that pandemic, you've
got to get your laps — I'm like Burt Lancaster in 'The Swimmer.'
So, I got myself a house with a pool out in Los Angeles.
So that's the real scandal.
I guess I finally am an actual bicoastal."
According to Us Weekly, Lyonne and Armisen were first linked in 2014, with actor Maya
Rudolph introducing the two.
There doesn't seem to be any animosity between the pair.
Lyonne hosted her first "Saturday Night Live" a month after their split, with Armisen joining
his ex on stage alongside Rudolph.
In her opening monologue, Lyonne joked,
"You know, Freddie and I, we dated for seven years.
Yeah, we're the only couple who had a sex tape nobody wanted to buy."