Most celebs don't go into show business because they're good at math, but some of them are
surprisingly skilled at practicing awkward relationship geometry, which is why so many
of them find themselves entangled in complex love triangles.
Just like all those eighth grade algebra equations you can't remember, here are some messy love
triangles celebs want you to forget.
Angelina’s first long division test
Everyone knows about the legendary love triangle of Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and his first
wife Jennifer Aniston.
The ripple effects of that rift are still rumbling throughout the celeb sphere.
Before that, though, the acclaimed actress was at the center of yet another bitter Hollywood
breakup.
Jolie’s second marriage to Billy Bob Thornton was allegedly a huge surprise to his then-girlfriend
Laura Dern, who said she was shocked to discover her beau went and got hitched to the blood
vial-wielding actress behind her back.
Dern told reporters that she was jilted by her long-time fella while she was off shooting
a movie on location, explaining in an interview:
“While I was away, my boyfriend got married, and I’ve never heard from him again.”
The whirlwind romance wasn’t a lasting formula, though.
Jolie and Thornton called it quits in 2003, despite their original plans to adopt her
first son Maddox together.
The hip hop bed hop
The rap scene was abuzz when hip-hop star A$AP Rocky was rumored to have stepped out
on Victoria's Secret model Chanel Iman for his Diamonds tour partner Rihanna in 2013,
but the lyric-slinger assured fans that their relationship was purely platonic.
Once he and Iman called off their engagement in 2015, though, the buzz began anew that
he and Rihanna had taken things to another level, but the rapper still insisted that
the reason he and Iman only moved to Splitsville is because, he said, "she deserves better
than me."
But that didn’t do much to stifle the gossip.
One plus two equals what, mathletes?
That’s right.
A zero.
Boy, BYE
Forget about the saga of Becky with the Good Hair.
Let's talk about Lyndall Locke, who's better known as Beyonce Knowles' ex than his own
name.
Locke dated Beyonce for years during her teens and has never made any bones about the fact
that he regrets losing the love of his life to Shawn "Jay Z" Carter.
To hear the rumor mill spin, Locke may have been more involved in the married couple's
early love story than they ever let on.
In a biographical tell-all book, celeb writer J. Randy Taraborrelli revealed that even when
Carter began courting Knowles back in their earliest days in 2001, she was still not completely
done with her first flame.
Even his mother contributed to the story by saying "there was a lot of grey area" in the
timeline between the start of Knowles' relationship with Carter and the end of her sweetheart
status with Locke.
In either case, Locke’s left kicking himself over his loss because, let’s face it.
This is Beyonce we’re talking about.
"Jay Z is a lucky dude!
Man, he's got a good one."
It’s the climb
Before The Hunger Games hunk Liam Hemsworth called it quits with his then-fiancée and
former The Last Song co-star Miley Cyrus, he was rumored to show some interest in Mad
Men star January Jones.
Jones' rep denied she had any part in the ending of Cyrus and Hemsworth's longtime relationship,
but the fact that the two were spotted leaving an Oscars party together and he was said to
be "sexting" her shortly before the pair's breakup announcement certainly raised some
eyebrows.
All’s well that ends well, though because Cyrus and Hemsworth rekindled their off-screen
romance in early 2016.
What happens in Canada, stays in Canada
This one's so complicated, it's more of a love-rectangle...or a love parallelogram or
something.
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart may have found immortal love onscreen in The Twilight
Saga, but their behind-the-scenes story was a little more human.
First, there was the time she was caught swapping spit with her married Snow White and the Huntsman
director Rupert Sanders, which made her the newest villain of the Twilight love story.
But before Stewart was supposedly hooking up with Sanders, Pattinson was at the center
of his own rumored dalliance that was a little less mainstream.
Pattinson was reportedly linked to Cosmopolis director David Cronenberg's daughter Caitlin
Cronenberg during production on the film in Toronto in 2011, while he was still said to
be dating Stewart.
Although the rumors of their connection were immediately denied, Pattinson was again linked
to the photographer during the Toronto production on Maps to the Stars.
He and Stewart were long since dunzo by then, though, so … maybe there was no bad blood
after all.
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