Celebrities who were cheated on by their partners

Even Queen B, one of the most desirable people in the world, was betrayed by her long-time partner, Jay-Z. This led to hard times, two amazing albums, and the couple eventually reconciling. Jay-Z, in a Netflix documentary, said it took a lot of “hard work” and “therapy” to win her back and that the couple is in “a better place today but still working and communicating and growing.”

In 2023, Natalie Portman split from her husband of 11 years, Benjamin Millepied, after an alleged affair. Months before the split, Page Six published a report claiming that he had an affair with a 25-year-old. In 2022, she celebrated their 10th anniversary with a social media post saying the relationship kept “getting better.”

In 2012, his girlfriend and ‘Twilight’ co-star Kristen Stewart was photographed kissing director Rupert Sanders. “This momentary indiscretion has jeopardized the most important thing in my life, the person I love and respect the most, Rob. I love him, I love him, I'm so sorry,” she later said in a statement. The couple stayed together for around a year more.

Her five-year marriage with Jesse James fell apart after it emerged he had cheated on her repeatedly. He even entered rehab for love addiction and publicly admitted his infidelities. “It's because of my poor judgment that I deserve everything bad that is coming my way,” he told People.

This gorgeous actress was cheated on by her fiance Jude Law. Soon after, it emerged he was cheating on her with the nanny of his kids from another marriage. The nanny gave a tell-all interview and Jude apologized. The couple split, rekindled but then broke up permanently in 2011.

The couple both had affairs during their marriage. Things really fell apart after Meg Ryan had an affair with her co-star Russel Crowe in 2000. But she later told Insight magazine that Dennis Quaid had been unfaithful for a very long time before that, which she said she found out more about after the divorce.

The stunning actress learned that her second husband Eric Benet was cheating on her through the tabloids. After she said she would sue the paper, Benet confessed it was true. “When I looked back at our relationship, I saw the flags ... but I wanted this relationship, I loved this man so much, that I made up in my mind it wasn't a flag,” she later told Oprah.

In her memoir, Jessica Simpson said she had an emotional affair with Johnny Knoxville. In fact, she said, it was “worse than a physical one.” She was married to singer Nick Lachey for four years before divorcing. Part of the relationship was featured on the series ‘Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica.’

After seven years together, the actress announced she was splitting with her partner, basketball player Tony Parker in 2010. Of course, he was cheating too. Longoria later told Lifetime that his cheating had nothing to do with her. “Society usually thinks there’s something wrong with the woman: Oh, he cheated on her, so she must not have been satisfying him. She must have been a ball and chain!” she said, saying that was not the case.

This drop-dead-gorgeous actress and model were dating Hugh Grant in 1995 when he was arrested for engaging in relations with a s e x worker in a car. "Last night I did something completely insane. I have hurt people I love and embarrassed people I work with. For both things I am more sorry than I can ever possibly say,” he later said in a statement. They stayed together until 2000, but are still friends.

Despite recent divorce rumors, it seems she is still together with Dwayne Wade long after the first cheating scandal. That happened in 2013, when she found out he had a baby with another woman. “We were not in a good place in our relationship at the time that child was conceived…. To say I was devastated is to pick a word on a low shelf for convenience,” she wrote in her memoir.

Jennifer Garner told Vanity Fair that she split with Ben Affleck before she found out he was cheating on her with the family nanny.

In 2008, the country star’s 14-year marriage with Robert Lange ended when it emerged she had been having an affair with her close friend Marie-Anne Thiébaud. But in a strange twist of fate, she ended up marrying the husband of Thiébaud, who was also betrayed.

The actress ended a six-year marriage with fellow actor Kenneth Branagh after it emerged he had an affair with his co-star Helena Bonham Carter. "You can’t hold on to anything like that. It’s pointless. I haven’t got the energy for it. Helena and I made our peace years and years ago," she told the Sunday Times.

In her memoir, Moore revealed that she was cheated on by Ashton Kutcher, her husband between 2005-2011. She said the lines were blurred after she allowed some “trios” that left her feeling “shame,” and then cheating began. She also admitted to cheating on her first husband Freddy Moore.

J-Lo has also opened up about being cheated on in the past, without naming any names. "When someone cheats on you, it's about them...about their shortcomings. It makes it feel like it's about our shortcomings like there was something wrong with us. But the truth is, it's their ego, and what they need to fill within themselves that drives them to do things like that. Not because you weren't enough,” she told Glamour UK.

The No Doubt singer said she was devastated when she found out that her now ex-husband Gavin Rossdale was having an affair with the nanny through a shared iPad. She told Harper’s Bazaar that it was “months of torture, trying to figure out this big secret… My dreams were shattered. All I wanted my whole life was to have babies, be married, like what my parents have.”

Her husband, actor and former governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, revealed in 2011 that he had fathered a child with the housekeeper 14 years ago, while the couple was married. Their divorce was finalized in 2021, ten years after announcing their separation.

Her husband, President John F. Kennedy, was rumored to have cheated on her several times during their ten-year marriage. A love letter to Mary Pinchot Meyer has surfaced and several women have claimed they were his lovers. What happened between him and Marilyn Monroe is also questioned by several media and historians.

Spelling met Dean McDermott while they were both in other relationships and got married in 2006, eventually having five kids together. However, McDermott admitted publicly to cheating in 2014 and even went into rehab to address those issues. They tried to work on their marriage, but they split in 2023.

The Kardashian sister was repeatedly cheated on by her partner and the father of her children Tristan Thompson, who even had a child with another woman while they were together. The relationship has been on-again-off-again. In 2023, Tristan blamed being "selfish" and "not understanding the value of good people," for his actions. Khloé was also cheated on by her other ex Lamar Odom.

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