The Real Reason Scarlett Johansson Divorced Ryan Reynolds

Publish date: 2024-05-07

In April 2016, Scarlett Johansson hinted to Cosmopolitan that career competition with Ryan Reynolds may have played a role in their split. "The logistics of being with another actor are challenging," she said (via E! News). "There has to be a real understanding of how you share your time, especially when two people's careers are going at the same rate. Or even if one person is more successful than the other, that also proves challenging."

That echoes her sentiments a year earlier, when she hinted to Parade that Reynolds' box office bombs may have played a role in their divorce. "Acting is a very strange world to be co-existing in," she said. "It's very volatile. There's always going to be the more successful person. It's related to rejection. Because actors, if they're not having success, connect it directly to unpopularity — to the fact that nobody wants them." She added, "[Marriage] takes a lot of work. It takes a man who's not only confident in the love that you have for one another, but confident in what he has going on in his own career."

Because of her success, Reynolds may have been controlling as well. A source told InTouch Weekly (via the Daily Mail): "He can be an overbearing control freak. ... When he wanted her there, he expected her to drop everything and come to him." Not so easy to do when one has a thriving film career, like Johansson had.

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