Scarlett Johansson praises her ex. The 38-year-old actress appeared on Gwyneth Paltrow’s latest episode The Goop Podcastand offered kind words about her ex-husband, Ryan Reynolds.
The topic came up when Paltrow asked Johansson if she had been married twice, and Johansson corrected her by saying that she was on her third marriage.
“Oh that’s right, because I forgot you’re married to Ryan Reynolds!” Paltrow said. “Goals!”
“Yes,” Johansson replied with a laugh, referring to her first husband, whom she was married to from 2008 to 2011, “We weren’t married long, but we were married when I first met you.”
Despite their divorce, it seems that Johansson has no ill will towards Reynolds, who is now married to Blake Lively. When Paltrow exclaimed, “We love a good Ryan Reynolds in our house,” Johansson replied, “He’s a good man.”
After Johansson’s divorce from Reynolds, she married Romain Dauriac in 2014. The couple had a daughter, Rose, who is now 8, before calling it quits in 2017.
Johansson then joined her current husband, Colin Jost; they married in 2020 and welcomed their son, Cosmo, in August 2021. In the podcast, Johansson reflects on what she learned from her past marriages and how they positively impacted her current marriage.
“I was probably never ready for a relationship like I had with Colin at different times in my life, because I wasn’t comfortable setting my own boundaries,” she said. “I don’t know, not only what I want, but what I need from others.”
Johansson noted that she realized “that there are some basic things in your own personality that you need” from a partner.
“It’s hard in a relationship because you always compromise no matter what and sometimes your life separates and they get back together blah blah blah,” he said. “But I never realized, ‘Oh, this is so important to me, I need to be with a compassionate person. That’s a basic trait that needs to be there.'”
Thinking about that, Johansson said, “is a must … for longevity.”
“There are going to be disagreements or progress or progress or you work on different things at different times and blah, blah, blah, but I think recognizing things is a game changer for me,” he said. “… You are wrapped up in things that are shiny and attractive to someone — no matter, it’s sexy or passionate — in a variety of attractive ways.”
“It’s not, like, the sexiest thing to do, to check the basic characteristics that you have to, but I think that’s why it worked with Colin and I at the time,” Johansson added. . “I was finally able to step back and actually respect myself enough to know what things are and be OK with them.”
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