even by Hollywood standards Sean Penn's
18-month romance with fellow Oscar
winner Charlize - run was a fleeting one
the run received the brunt of the blame
in the aftermath of their split but was
this stunning actress really the only
one at fault here's the real reason
Charlize and Sean broke up according to
a source who spoke to Us Weekly eran
abruptly stopped talking about her
then-boyfriend during the 2015 can Film
Festival and didn't speak to him again
after that acting him from her life
completely to run later refuted the
shady accusations that she had
cautiously cut pan out of her life in a
candid interview with The Wall Street
Journal the frustrated actress let loose
telling them that when it comes to
celebrity power couples the media always
feel a need to sensationalize the events
of a breakup she added when you leave a
relationship there has to be some crazy
story or some crazy drama and the
ghosting thing like literally I still
don't even know what it is
it's just its own beast after clearing
that up and taking it down a notch the
actress offered up her own version of
events claiming that the decision to
bring that relationship to an end was a
mutual one she explained we were in a
relationship and then it didn't work
anymore and we both decided to separate
that's it at one stage it looked as
though Penn and to run were going to
make a real go at it as a family with
reports emerging from various sources
that the older actor was about to sign
papers making him the legal father of
the runs adopted daughter Jackson a
source told people Charlie's and Sean
are very serious about the adoption
Charlie says this is it Jackson already
calls Sean daddy this is the first step
towards them getting married a wedding
never came however and forerun later
explained that the seriousness of their
relationship had been gravely
exaggerated in the press according to E
she said we were very very new in a
relationship the story is that Sean was
going to adopt Jackson and all that was
not true it's not something that happens
in 18 months you can't do that to a
child another relationship bombshell
that the run dropped during her
illuminating interview with The Wall
Street Journal was that she wanted to
adopt a second child and not only that
but that she wanted to do it alone the
actress was full of praise for Penn for
the way in which he handled the tricky
situation with Jackson telling the mag
there was an understanding that I was a
single mom with a very young girl who I
had to put in a situation
where she understood that mummy dates
but that she does not have a father in
that spirit if the run went ahead and
made plans to extend her family without
pen but the blonde stoner insists she
made her intentions clear on the subject
right from the get-go saying he knew
that I was thinking about filing for
another adoption but that we weren't
filing together just a few months after
the split the run adopted her daughter
August working alongside the love of
your life might seem like a dream gig on
the surface but mixing work and pleasure
isn't always a sustainable model for
unconfirmed as much when she sat down
for an interview with Elle explaining
that working in the same industry as
Penn provided as many challenges for her
as it did opportunities she said putting
aside that he's my partner he's the love
of my life for the first time I felt
that my work was really bleeding into my
life and that made it hard I could do
that with somebody that you're in love
with there's something really powerful
in that and they could also make it very
very difficult
the South African mother of two revealed
that her relationship with Penn became
strained at this point admitting that
ultimately they were both to blame for
things going south she confessed there
were moments where I was incredibly
unfair to him and moments where I felt
like he was incredibly unfair to me one
factor in the breakdown of their
relationship could have been the amount
of time the pen and to run spent in the
friend zone before actually getting
together romantically the year before
they threw in the towel to run explained
to a squire that she and Penn had known
each other for many years and were
actually introduced through their former
partners she said we've been friends for
20 years I think our friendships stem
from mutual respect more on my end
because I really didn't have a body of
work 20 years ago but my love and
passion for making films that was our
common ground after two decades of being
buddies they're more than friends
experiment was a risky one and
unfortunately it just didn't pan out for
the pair Thoren spent nine years dating
Irish actor Stuart Townsend after she
met him on the set of the 2002 thriller
trapped but the actress made her
feelings towards marriage cleared during
an interview with vogue revealing let's
put it this way I never had the dream of
the white dress and watching other
people getting married I think it's
beautiful for them but to be quite
honest usually I'm sitting there just
devastated rumors that the run had
undergone a change of heart regarding
marriage started to swell after us
weekly exclusive claimed that she had
accepted a marriage proposal from Penn
during a secretive Paris trip and that
intensified when she was spotted wearing
an 18 karat yellow gold band on her ring
finger months later it turned out that
the band was actually a gift with a
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