2023 has been the undisputed year of breakups.
Why do we get so invested?
According to experts, this all boils down to parasocial attachments that fans tend to form with public figures.
Here’s a rundown of all the celebrity breakups we saw in 2023.
Vergara was floored but prophetically intuitive about their relationship.
“I mean, we have no problems.
I cannot believe it.
I always tell him, ‘This is very suspicious!'”
she told radio show host Ryan Seacrest (viaThe Latin Times).
Divorce documents obtained byNBC Newsreportedly pronounced the four-year marriage “irretrievably broken.”
Jonas and Turner’s romance was somewhat of a new-age millennial fairytale.
But right now, it’s like the security and the safety is everything."
The couple had been together long before that, having met at a dinner party in 2009.
“This is an extension of our activist side,” Porter toldPeople.
The pair’s split was far from acrimonious, evident in Porter’s reflections toEvening Standardin the aftermath.
“I will always love him,” Porter said.
“We made it as far as we could.”
“I was in dreamland.
Millepied even received a special shoutout from the Academy Awards show stage after Portman won for best actress.
The couple seemed to have perfected the art of spousal support.
Later,Us Weeklyconfirmed their separation.
Portman and Millepiedhave been spotted together since, but notably without their wedding rings.
Their commitment to privacy, however, didn’t impede their commitment to each other.
And hey, at least Alwyn hasn’t become the subject of a diss track … yet.
But, it turns out, friends sounded the alarm long before Grande and Gomez’s two-year marriage ended.
However, Grande apparently didn’t share his enthusiasm, and the couple split in January, according toTMZ.
In September, Grande officially said “thank u, next” whenshe filed for divorce from Gomez.
In May 2023,TMZconfirmed that Baumgartner had filed for divorce.
Bebe Rexha and Keyan Safyari
Gone are the days when celebrities cloaked their breakups in secrecy.
Pop icons today are shouting it out to the world from concert stages.
The ex-couple spent a good many months together, especially during the coronavirus pandemic when they were quarantined together.
“We like this guy,” she declared.
Mere weeks after celebrating their first wedding anniversary, Bush and Hughes had parted ways.
“Running toward the future, grinning and laughing, together.
“It happened out of the blue,” Witherspoon toldElle.
Things moved quickly thereafter, and within a year of dating, the two were engaged to be married.
“It’s a vulnerable time for me,” she said in a tell-all withHarper’s Bazaar.
Maisie Williams and Reuben Selby
It seems 2023 wasn’t the best year for the Stark family.
The couple share two children.
While they got over that initial hump, they’d eventually break up decades later.
