Suki Waterhouse made a rare comment that appears to reference her past relationship with Bradley Cooper, suggesting that before Robert Pattinson, any romance that reached the two-year mark ended badly. Waterhouse, 34, and Cooper, 51, dated from 2013 to 2015, a relationship she has rarely discussed publicly since the split.
“Before I had only ever gone out with someone for two years, and if it was two years, it would have been a disaster at the end,” Waterhouse told The Sunday Times in an interview published Saturday, Oct. 31, according to Page Six. She didn’t name Cooper, and the remark came as part of broader reflections on her relationship history rather than a detailed accounting of what went wrong.
Suki Waterhouse’s Bradley Cooper ‘Disaster’ Comment Explained
Waterhouse was 21 when she began dating Cooper, who was 38 at the time, a 17-year age gap noted by Page Six. The two dated for roughly two years before splitting in 2015.
Beyond the “disaster” remark, Waterhouse didn’t detail specific events or disagreements. Instead, she described a broader pattern from her younger years. “When you’re younger you go into everything so blindly and you don’t think of consequences, including maybe of relationships,” she said.
She also recalled isolating herself at home after a painful breakup and deciding to step away from modeling, a career she described as stifling. “I felt quite stifled by it … I started feeling, like, I have to find a way out of here or I’m going to drown,” she said.
“You can have a private life and a public life at the same time. I know that now,” Waterhouse said of what she’s learned from past relationships, drawing a line between how she handled fame and romance then versus how she approaches them now.
What She Said in 2024
Waterhouse previously touched on the split from Cooper in a July 2024 British Vogue cover story, where she described the aftermath in more emotional terms without laying out specifics.
“When something very public happens to you and the story behind it is dark and difficult, and you’re actually not doing well, and you can’t explain yourself to the world, that’s very isolating and disorientating,” she said at the time. She hasn’t explained what she meant by “dark and difficult” in either that interview or her more recent comments.
Background on Waterhouse’s Relationship History
Cooper wasn’t her only notable relationship before her current one. She previously dated musician Miles Kane from 2011 to 2013 and actor Diego Luna on and off from 2015 to 2017.
Waterhouse has been with actor Robert Pattinson since 2018. The pair got engaged in late 2023 and welcomed a daughter in March 2024. “It is almost a decade [of our relationship] and that is a beautiful thing,” she told The Sunday Times. She framed the relationship as a contrast to her younger years, saying her past “led me to a love that is really pure.”
Cooper, meanwhile, has been dating Gigi Hadid since 2023. His representative did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
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