Suki Waterhouse Alludes to ‘Isolating and Disorientating’ Breakup with Bradley Cooper: ‘Dark and Difficult’

“It probably has taken a decade to work myself out and actually be able to have this expansion in my life,” said Waterhouse. Suki Waterhouse is opening up about the “isolating and disorientating” aftermath of her breakup with Bradley Cooper.

Although it has been nearly 10 years since the pair called it quits in 2015 following a two-year romance, Waterhouse, 32, shared in a cover story interview for British Vogue’s August issue that the split was anything but easy.

“I really will say that I’m pretty strong at this point, but 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. “It probably has taken a decade to work myself out and actually be able to have this expansion in my life.” When their romance began, Waterhouse was 21, and Cooper, now 49, was 38.

Noting that she believes past heartbreak “always stays in you,” Waterhouse explained how her dating life has changed as she’s grown older. “Your 20s are pretty sadistic. The love I experienced [then] was only ever a fetishisation, and I think when you only get loved in that way, you only get punished,” the singer and actress told British Vogue. “When you get into your 30s you’re almost instantly afforded a little bit more respect. It’s kind of delightful and shocking at the same time.”