After Splitting Up, These Celebrities Wish Their Exes Nothing But The Best

The end of relationships can be anything but civil, often being messier than anticipated. It’s like the once-colliding constellation of energies between two lovers suddenly fizzling out, being pulled into a black whole of impossibility. Celebrity breakups are often more difficult to navigate, as they exist exclusively in the public eye.

But what of the amicable breakups between celebrities? The severing of ties between some a-listers sometimes is quite cordial in comparison to others. Here’s a look at a few celebrities who remained civil after breaking up, proving it can work if you aren’t a jerk.

8/8 Demi Lovato And Wilmer Valderrama

Singer Demi Lovato and That 70’s Show actor Wilmer Valderrama were in an on-and-off relationship between 2010 and 2016. In the years following their break-up, the two remained in each other’s lives, with Valderamma even visiting Lovato in the hospital a day after she overdosed in July 2018.

Since then, two aren’t as close. But when Lovato was asked how she felt about Valderrama’s engagement to Amanda Pacheco in 2020, she told Harper’s Bazaar, “I’m really happy for him and I wish him nothing but the best, but we’re not in each other’s lives, haven’t spoken in a long time,”.

7/8 Jenni ‘JWoww’ Farley And Roger Mathews

Jersey Shore star Jenni ‘JWoww’ Farley and ex-husband Roger Mathews tumultuous marriage ended when their divorce was finalized in 2019. Together they share two children and have been co-parenting since.

Farley has since been in a relationship with wrestler Zack Carpinello, and the two became engaged in 2020. Per TMZ, Mathew’s expressed, on his “Champ and the Tramp” podcast, nothing but support for his ex-wife on her new engagement saying, “I’m happy for her. I’m happy for them…I don’t know Zack well, but what I do know of him … he’s good to my children. Jenni seems very happy. They seem very happy together.”

6/8 Andrew Garfield And Emma Stone

Actors Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone’s fortuitous romance began on set in 2011 while they played each other’s love interests in The Amazing Spider-Man. Though the two ended their relationship in 2015 an amicable, supportive friendship still exists between them.

Garfield spoke on a podcast interview for Vanity Fair of Stone saying he was her “biggest fan,” and added “it’s been bliss to be able to watch her success and watch her bloom into the actress that she is.”

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5/8 Lenny Kravitz And Lisa Bonet

Aside from being the parents of The Batman actress, Zoë Kravitz, musician Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet are also still very close friends following their amicable divorce in 1993.

Kravitz is even buds with Bonet’s now ex-husband, Jason Momoa. He opened up in an interview with Men’s Health about his peaceful coexistence with Bonet and Momoa. “People can’t believe how tight Jason and I are, or how tight I still am with Zoë’s mom, how we all relate,” Kravitz said. “We just do it because that’s what you do. You let love rule, right?”

4/8 Anna Faris And Chris Pratt

Chris Pratt and Anna Faris met in 2007 on the set of romantic comedy Take Me Home Tonight, before eloping in July 2009. Since their divorce, which was finalized in 2018, the two— and Pratt’s new wife Katharine Schwarzenegger— have gotten closer.

“We’re all getting much closer, and I so appreciate that,” Faris told People. “They’re very protective of me, and I want to be very protective of them. I so appreciate their support.”

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3/8 Gwyneth Paltrow And Chris Martin

Gwyneth Paltron and Chris Martin split after 10 years of marriage in March 2014. When there could easily be bad blood between the actress and the Coldplay frontman, things have been astonishingly peaceful between the two. Martin even attended Paltrow’s honeymoon celebration after the Avengers actress got remarried to producer Brad Falchuk.

Paltrow opened up to the UK’s Evening Standard about her and Martin’s destined marriage saying, “I think Chris and I were meant to be together and have our kids. But our relationship is much better like this: friends and co-parents and family.”

2/8 Taylor Swift And Joe Jonas

Taylor Swift and Joe Jonas dated from July to October of 2008. In 2019, The “Anti-Hero” singer apologized for bashing Jonas in 2008 saying to Ellen DeGeneres, “We laugh about it now but that was some mouthy — yeah, just some teenage stuff there.”

Jonas’ wife, actress Sophie Turner happens to be a proclaimed Swiftie. The women volleyed support back and forth on their Instagram in support for each other with Turner reposting Swift’s song “Mr. Perfectly Fine” writing: “It’s not NOT a bop”. Swift reposted the actress’s post with an ode to her role on Game of Thrones writing: “Forever bending the knee for the (👑) of the north.” There seems to be no bad blood between Swift and Jonas.

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1/8 Adele And Ex-Husband Simon Konecki

When English singer Adele finally got married it seemed to rescue her from the heartbreak her lyrics embodied. But love would, yet again, end for the songstress when she got divorced in 2021 from husband Simon Konecki. In an exclusive interview with Oprah Winfrey for her CBS special Adele One Night Only, Adele opened up about her ex-husband and son, Angelo.

“Even now I trust him with my life,” Adele said. “I feel like him and Angelo were angels sent to me.”