Robert Pattinson's Dating History from His First Love to His Current Girlfriend
Try as he might, Robert Pattinson can never shake the attention on his love life since he got together with a co-star of one of the most prominent vampire movie franchises of all time.
Robert Pattinson has reportedly been close to getting married a few times, but scandals or work have always gotten in the way. He is currently in a relationship with a British entertainer.
Whether it is racist fans, relentless paparazzi, or the mean-spirited writers of "Gossip Girl," the star's girlfriends, and even rumored partners, tend to have a hard time outside the relationship's bubble.
British model Nina Schubert models this year's M&G dress, made with Orchida "Vanda" heads, at the Chelsea Flower Show in west London, on May 19, 2014. | Source: Getty Images
Robert Pattinson Dated the Girl-Next-Door, Nina Schubert
US Weekly describes Pattinson's first serious girlfriend as the girl-next-door. "The Batman" star dated British model Nina Schubert for three years. According to Look, the two grew up together and only split because he moved to Los Angeles in 2006 for work.
They parted on good terms and are close confidants. He turned to Schubert when dealing with the fallout of his next girlfriend's cheating scandal.
The model has kept a low profile since dating the star. She modeled a dress made of hundreds of orchid heads at the Chelsea Flower Show on May 19, 2014.
American actress Dylan Penn at Rome Film Fest 2022 on the "Signs Of Love" red carpet in Rome, Italy on October 18th, 2022. | Source: Getty Images
Robert Pattinson's Rumored Girlfriends - Nikki Reed and Dylan Penn
Pattinson was linked to "Twilight" cast mate Nikki Reed, who played his sister in the franchise. The starlet shut down the rumor and shared her frustration with Seventeen in 2009, saying a tabloid accused her of being "bitter" about a break-up that never happened.
She admitted to an affair with the married "Snow White and the Huntsman" director Rupert Sanders
Robin Wright and Sean Penn's model daughter, Dylan Penn, laughed off her alleged 2013 attachment with the actor in an Italian Vogue interview. She insisted that they were just friends and explained that the image circulated of them cropped out the other people present.
Actor Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart attends the 'Twilight' photocall during the 3rd Rome International Film Festival held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica on October 30, 2008 in Rome, Italy. | Source: Getty Images
Kristen and Robert: The Early Days of "Robsten"
The way "Twilight, " director Catherine Hardwicke tells it, there was an instant connection between Kristen Stewart and Pattinson when they first met, calling it "That electricity, or love at first sight, or whatever it is."
Stewart was dating Michael Angarano when cast in the career-making role of Bella, per yahoo! Entertainment. The actress shrugged off the rumors that she was dating her co-star on March 2009 and said that her boyfriend was not concerned.
During the filming of the sequel, "New Moon," in Vancouver, the co-stars were snapped holding hands and horsing around off-set. Angarano called it quits in June 2009, clearing the path for the actors playing Edward and Bella to date openly.
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart attend the UK premiere of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1" at Westfield Stratford City on November 16, 2011 in London, England. | Source: Getty Images
Kristen and Robert Take Their Tortured Relationship Off-Screen
Pattinson confided in The Sun at the 2010 BAFTAs, that he was there with Stewart, but they could not walk in together due to their fans' crazy response. Per The List, both stars were open about the outside pressures on their connection.
Over the next four years, the couple remained in the spotlight as the five films in the "Twilight" saga films were released. But the 2012 release of the final installment, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, did not end the interest in the pair.
They were becoming more serious in 2012; a source told The Mirror that the actor was planning to propose and had bought them a LA home. She admitted to an affair with the married "Snow White and the Huntsman" director Rupert Sanders during this time.
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are seen at LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) on November 26, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. | Source: Getty Images
He Got Advice from an Ex during Kristen Stewart’s Cheating Scandal
An insider told Look that his ex-girlfriend, Schubert, advised the "Love & Distrust" actor not to make "hasty decisions." She was his confidant during the crisis and took his distressed calls as early as 2 a.m.
The "Charley's Angel" star publically apologized for the affair. Closer reported that she appealed to him to listen to her. They briefly reunited a year later, in 2013, before quietly calling it quits. The once rocky love affair has now become a friendship, according to The List.
In recent years, Stewart has been more open about her sexuality and more private about her relationships. She confirmed her relationship with her personal assistant, Alicia Cargile, in Elle UK, in 2016 and said she loved her girlfriend.
British actor Robert Pattinson and singer FKA twigs attend the 2015 Costume Institute Gala Benefit celebrating the exhibition 'China: Through the Looking Glass' at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA, on 04 May 2015. | Source: Getty Images
T-Pain Spilled the Beans on FKA Twigs and Robert Pattinson
Pattinson moved on closer to home with British singer FKA twigs. InStyle forwarded two theories of how the duo met: when he was the third wheel with Sienna Miller and Tom Sturridge at her concert or through mutual friend Florence Welch.
Their liaison was confirmed when they were photographed at public outings at the end of 2014. Singer and producer T-Pain accidentally let it slip in a Vulture interview that the pair were engaged. He tried to fix it by tweeting that April 1, 2015, interview was an April Fool's prank.
Though PEOPLE confirmed the engagement, the couple dodged questions when they attended the Met Gala holding hands on May 4, 2015. Cornered by Howard Stern about their pending nuptials two years later, the actor said, "Yeah, kind of."
FKA Twigs Harassed by Racist Twihards
FKA twigs tweeted her disgust at the racism she experienced when the relationship became public knowledge. In The Guardian, she said that she looks uncomfortable in the paparazzi photos of the pair because that's how she felt uncomfortable.
A frustrated Pattinson equated trying to respond to online trolls to punching water in a Howard Stern interview in July 2017. He said that trying to address the issue often made it worse.
She said on "Grounded with Louis Theroux" in 2021 that Pattinson was like a "white prince charming" to some people who believed he should be with "someone white and blonde and not her."
FKA twigs and Robert Pattinson attend the "Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2016 in New York City. | Source: Getty Image
FKA Twigs and Robert Pattinson's Slow Break-Up
An unconfirmed InTouch report in April 2016 claimed that Pattinson broke off the engagement. InStyle noted that FKA twig was not wearing her engagement ring when they showed up at the Met Gala a week later.
PEOPLE announced their separation on October 2017, with a source citing their busy schedules as the cause. The same unnamed source was hopeful of a reconciliation between the pair.
With these headlines in her wake, it's no surprise that fans and critics found references to her former fiancé in her second studio album "Magdalene" in 2019.
Robert Pattinson poses during a photo call to promote "Breaking Dawn - Part 2" on October 22, 2012 in Sydney, Australia. | Source: Getty Images
Robert Pattinson's Relationship with the Media
Pattinson explained in a September 2015 interview with The Guardian that he said random things to the press so he "wouldn't sound cookie-cutter or part of the machine." InStyle also pointed out that the star has been known to tell the odd fib.
With this in mind, one should take his statements with the proverbial pinch of salt. That said, his response when asked if he could have a photographer follow him, like his character in "Life" does with James Dean, seems sincere:
“…it’s bringing your family into the public domain and then having to have them deal with this horrible cacophony of demons who live on the internet. That’s really ruined a lot of things...”
Suki Waterhouse and Robert Pattinson attend the Dior Perfume Dinner, as part of Paris Fashion Week, at Caviar Kaspia on January 17, 2020 in Paris, France. | Source: Getty Images
Suki Waterhouse and Robert Pattinson Moved Together during Lockdown
E! News published the first casual sightings of Pattinson with his new love interest, model and actress Suki Waterhouse, in July 2018. He reluctantly acknowledged the relationship in April 2019 to The Sunday Times.
When the couple was finally photographed together at an official event, a dinner party hosted by Dior in Paris on January 17, 2020, the press started speculating if one of her many rings were, in fact, an engagement ring.
One of the many revelations in Pattinson's GQ June/July 2020 profile is that they moved in together in London during the lockdown.
According to a PEOPLE report, Waterhouse called out the show "Gossip Girl" and one of its writers, Lila Feinberg, in a since-deleted tweet. In the reboot, "Suki Nobody" was the punch line to a joke about being the insignificant partner in a couple.
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