I don’t think many people realized that Rupert Sanders is the director of Ghost in the Shell, the whitewashed abomination that just sh-t the bed at the box office. This is Sanders’ first directorial effort since Snow White and the Huntsman in 2012. Remember that? Shortly after the film’s release, Rupert’s affair with SWATH leading lady Kristen Stewart became public. Us Weekly had taken exclusive photos of Rupert and Kristen riding around LA in her mom’s Mini Cooper. There were photos of them kissing, cuddling and looking very affair-y. I think they were even doing sh-t in the back of the Mini Cooper. The rest was history: Kristen basically destroyed her relationship with Robert Pattinson. Rupert’s marriage to Liberty Ross ended almost six months to the day of the release of the photos. It was one of the biggest scandals of 2012, and it was easily one of the biggest gossip stories I’ve ever covered. But did you know it was only a “momentarily lapse”? So says Rupert in a new interview.
Rupert Sanders, the director who was infamously snapped canoodling with Kristen Stewart while they were both in relationships with other people, says his affair with the young starlet was a “momentary lapse.” Sanders was married to Liberty Ross when the photos surfaced about five years ago. Stewart was in a relationship with her “Twilight” costar Robert Pattinson.
“If you took people off the table for a momentary lapse, there would be no one making art,” he told U.K.’s Metro, explaining that the headline-making affair didn’t ruin his career.
Sanders called the incident with Stewart a mistake.
“You never know what’s coming in life. Around every corner there’s something unexpected, and that’s life. You just have to brush yourself off and continue moving forward the best you can. Everyone makes mistakes. I am bound to make more mistakes, and I wouldn’t expect my life to be exciting if I didn’t.”
All this did was remind me of the fact that Kristen and Rupert never really talked about how long the affair had been happening. They both took the cheaters’ line of defense, which is that they only cheated the one time they were caught. Personally, I always thought their affair began during the production and continued for months, up to the Mini Coopering incident. My point is that’s not a momentary lapse. That’s a year-long affair. Oh well… at least Liberty dumped him and married a billionaire.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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