Breakups are never easy, but when you're a celebrity, that heartbreak is on display for the entire world to see. Some are able to handle it with grace, but others...well, they make headlines for some not-so-great reasons.
Here are 15 celebs who handled their very public breakups well:
(Or, if you're not feeling all the ~lovey dovey~ stuff, scroll down past #15 for the drama.)
1. After ending her two-year relationship with Cara Delevingne, Ashley Benson was heavily criticized for moving on with G-Eazy, but Cara defended her on Instagram and asked fans to stop sending her hate.
2. During his ex-wife Lisa Bonet's marriage to Jason Momoa, Lenny Kravitz wore matching rings with Jason.
Lenny also visited Jason on set when he hosted Saturday Night Live.
3. Tom Hiddleston and Taylor Swift dissolved their short-lived relationship in 2016, but three years later, he still declined to answer questions about her, instead discussing what he learned from the experience.
4. After Jenny Slate and Chris Evans ended their 10-month relationship, she told Vulture, "He’s a lovely person" and "truly one of the kindest people [she's] ever met."
Chris also spoke highly of Jenny post-breakup, saying "you spend five minutes with her and you cannot find something bad to say about her if you tried."
5. Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr remained friends after their 2013 divorce, and they also consider each other's current partners — Katy Perry and Evan Spiegel — to be their friends as well.
6. Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux were married from 2015–2017, and he dispelled rumors that they separated because of distance and clarified that they still keep in touch.
7. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone remained close friends after the end of their four-year relationship, and he gave her a standing ovation when she won a Golden Globe.
Recently, Andrew told Variety that working on The Amazing Spider-Man was "only beautiful" because he "got to meet Emma."
8. A few years after her 13-year relationship with Hugh Grant ended, Elizabeth Hurley gave birth to a son and made her ex the godfather.
9. Even though their characters on The Vampire Diaries ended up together, Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder broke up after three years. He married Nikki Reed two years later, but the three of them are still close friends.
11. In 2016, Bella Thorne and Gregg Sulkin broke up after a year of dating, but in 2019, they still hung out as friends.
12. In her autobiography, Demi Moore alleged that her ex-husband Ashton Kutcher cheated on her and made several other negative claims. Rather than responding directly, however, he tweeted, "I was about to push the button on a really snarky tweet. Then I saw my son, daughter, and wife and I deleted it."
Demi also chose to focus on her family. Soon after, she quarantined with ex-husband Bruce Willis and their children.
13. After announcing the end of their two-year relationship in joint Instagram statements, Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes remained best friends, and she even commented the breakup song snippet he posted two months later.
14. After his ex-wife, Kaitlynn Carter, received backlash for kissing Miley Cyrus a week after their split, Brody Jenner defended her on Instagram because "she deserves to be able to move forward in her life with respect and happiness."
15. Anderson Cooper and Benjamin Maisani ended their three-year relationship in 2018, but they continued to live together so they could co-parent their son, who was born in 2020.
And now, here are 15 celeb couples who didn't handle their public breakups well at all:
16. After Megan Fox called Machine Gun Kelly her "achingly beautiful boy" on Instagram, her ex-husband, Brian Austin Green, posted a picture of their sons, captioned "achingly beautiful boys."
17. After breaking off his engagement with Little Mix's Perrie Edwards, Zayn Malik retweeted a "Which is the better single?" post from Shady Music Facts that asked fans to like it to vote for Little Mix or retweet for Fifth Harmony.
18. After Bella Thorne and Mod Sun's on-and-off polyamorous relationship with Tana Mongeau came to an end, they both dropped diss tracks that were allegedly about her on the very same day.
19. After ending her whirlwind engagement with Pete Davidson, Ariana Grande called their relationship "an amazing distraction" — and Pete dragged her in his Netflix stand-up special.
20. When Justin Bieber received hate for posting pictures with Sofia Richie, his ex, Selena Gomez, commented that he should "stop posting pictures of [his] girlfriend" — then Justin deleted his Instagram entirely.
21. After ending her three-year relationship with Elon Musk, Grimes trolled the paparazzi by walking down the street and reading The Communist Manifesto.
22. Once Travis Barker began dating Kourtney Kardashian, his ex-wife, Shanna Moakler, accused him of having an affair with Kim Kardashian, accused Kourtney of "driving a wedge" between her and her children, and wiped pictures of their kids from Instagram after their father's engagement.
23. When her then-boyfriend Tristan Thompson allegedly cheated on her with Jordyn Woods, Khloé Kardashian harshly pushed the blame onto Jordyn.
24. Roughly a year after Kim Kardashian filed for divorce, her estranged husband, Kanye West, begged her to "run back to him," went on an Instagram tirade against her and her new boyfriend Pete Davidson, and sent her a truckload of roses on Valentine's Day.
25. Back in 2015, Kanye slut-shamed his ex, Amber Rose, and told Entertainment Tonight that he "had to take 30 showers before [he] got with Kim."
26. After Joe Jonas and Taylor Swift separated in 2008, she revealed that he'd dumped her in a 27-second phone call, then made a Myspace video mocking him with a Camp Rock doll.
27. Two weeks after her 15-month relationship with Calvin Harris dissolved, Taylor was photographed kissing Tom Hiddleston, and Calvin went on a social media tirade against her and accused her of "controll[ing] the media."
28. Calvin also dumped his on-and-off girlfriend, Rita Ora, in a tweet during a time she "thought he had [her] back and that he'd never steer [her] wrong."
29. Rita was also the target of an ex's Twitter rage when Rob Kardashian accused her of cheating on him "with more than 20 dudes," which he later defended by saying, "I posted what I posted to keep myself from taking her back."
30. And finally, after Rob's two-year relationship with Adrienne Bailon ended in 2009, he wouldn't stop calling her, so she sent him an email from her fake "new boyfriend" to make him leave her alone.
