The sun may be setting on the romance between “Twilight” stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson – because she reportedly cheated on him with a married director almost twice her age.
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Us Weekly revealed Tuesday that it’s set to publish photographs of a “marathon makeout session” between Stewart, 22, and “Snow White and the Huntsman” helmer Rupert Sanders, 41.
It said the father of two and his dark-haired ingenue were caught in a series of clinches on July 17 and “it seemed like they couldn’t get enough.”
Stewart’s camp is in damage-control mode, with a source telling People magazine that she’s reeling from her betrayal of Pattinson, 26, her boyfriend of three years.
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But he had high praise for the actress on the red carpet for their film last month, telling E News Stewart has “a great spirit, she’s really quite rebellious … and feisty and kind of wild.”
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Actress Liberty Ross, left, and her husband director Rupert Sanders arrive at a screening of Universal Pictures’ “Snow White and The Huntsman” at the Village Theatre on May 29, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
Representatives for Stewart and Pattinson also had no official comment.
The duo have shown no signs of stress in their recent public appearances, showing up on stage at the Teen Choice Awards just five days after the actress’s reported tryst looking picture-perfect.
They took to the stage and flashed big smiles as they accepted the Ultimate Choice Award for the “Twilight” series.
By 2009, more and more photos began to emerge of the secretive duo displaying their affection for each other, and by 2010 their “Eclipse” director spoke openly about their relationship to Time magazine, saying, “Oh my God, I hope they stay together.”
The couple finally dropped all pretenses in 2011, with Stewart telling a magazine “My boyfriend is English. Come on, guys, it’s so obvious!”
While the pair have repeatedly dodged rumors they plan to walk down the aisle in the near future, Pattinson hasn’t been afraid to gush about his girlfriend, telling BlackBook she’s had a unique effect on him.
“There was a magazine, with these pictures, saying I was getting married. No one ever knows what is true or what isn’t,” he told the magazine. “Even my own mum called to ask me if it was true.”It’s not. At least, not yet. But it is true that Kristen has always done something to me that others haven’t.”
If Pattinson’s interview with Italian Vanity Fair last year is any indication, however, Stewart might be in for a tough road ahead if she wants to salvage their relationship.
“Life is not black and white,” Pattinson told the magazine in May 2011. “There is one thing I never understood: why people cheat.”
But the notoriously independent Stewart has been outspoken in the past about how she lives her life, possibly offering a clue into her rationale.
“I do whatever I want,” Kristen told E! News in May when asked her what she would do if she knew she wasn’t going to be photographed. “You can’t be ashamed of what you’re doing if you’re doing it honestly, and I am.”
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