An iconic Oscar winner said, “I am reminded that the magnitude of the pain I am feeling is equal to the measure of my capacity for love.”

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"And actually, in the last year and a half, I have gone through the most monumental change as a result, and I feel like I've grown up, I feel like I've become a man," he said.

She added, "I think that there's something about that level of fame that attracts crazy people, and it's unfortunate because I've never done anything to warrant that kind of backlash."

She continued, "We're not on bad terms, but we haven't really seen each other, spoken a lot. I think it's probably best. I'd love to be his friend one day, but we threw down pretty hard. No regrets, though. Ever."

She continued, "Then time passes, and the more you live your life and create new habits, you get used to not having a text message every morning saying, 'Hello, beautiful. Good morning.' You get used to not calling someone at night to tell them how your day was. You replace these old habits with new habits, like texting your friends in a group chat all day and planning fun dinner parties and going out on adventures with your girlfriends, and then all of a sudden, one day you're in London and you realize you've been in the same place as your ex for two weeks, and you're fine. And you hope he's fine. The first thought that came to my mind was, I'm finally clean. I'd been in this media hailstorm of people having a very misconstrued perception of who I was. There were really insensitive jokes being made at awards shows by hosts; there were snarky headlines in the press— 'Taylor Goes Through a Breakup: Well, That Was Swift!' —focusing on all the wrong things."

She continued, "That girl is searching for identity in men. She has no identity of her own, willing to stoop so low as to [bleeped] one of her best friends' life partners. And that's someone you think is, like, a good person you should be around?"

Khloé and Tristan were secretly engaged the month before he cheated, and they were reportedly still engaged until December 2021, when his paternity scandal came to light. 

She found out about his affair through the tabloids. At the time, she and Tristan were already planning to have a second child together through surrogacy, and their surrogate's embryo transfer was done a few days before Khloé learned he had another child on the way. Their son was born in 2022.

"And so, I am choosing to face the pain, cultivating the courage to meet my life exactly as it is, and trusting that this too shall pass. The promise, they say, is that a tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. I hope it’s true… I share this to keep it 💯, and hoping that the knowledge of my experience might be useful to someone else out there experiencing the grip of heartbreak who is poised to try and escape from the pain and miss out on the wisdom that comes from it," she said.

She continued, "He lost his wingman, his partner in crime, and I [feel] as if he's starting to get impatient with my recovery. I understand that even brief periods of illness can strain important relationships in your life. A chronic condition like mine, one that has consumed years of our lives, poses enormous challenges.

... I had a great seven year run with him and I will always hold that in high regards and have gratitude for that time together. If he didn't leave the marriage, I would not be where I am today."

She continued, "I just kept having to say to myself, 'None of this is true. You are a good mum, and you've never been a partier.'...I mean, it's unfathomable the amount of people that will just make shit up and put it up based on a picture. A picture might tell a thousand words, but it's not my story. It felt like I was watching a movie of my life that I hadn't written, hadn't produced, or starred in. It was shocking. I'm still in shock."

She added, "I loved everything about marriage. I loved having a companion to wake up with and have barbecues with. But things happen and people grow apart. I don't really ever talk about the divorce because it was a heart-wrenching thing to go through. It's a very, very personal thing."

In an interesting twist of fate, Shania married Marie-Anne's ex, Frédéric Thiébaud, in 2011. 

She continued, "And then when I became single, I was almost thinking like, I never, ever want to go through that again. I didn't even want to meet anybody. I don't think I could bear that pain. Heartbreak is so grim that I remember thinking, I'm done with men forever.

...I'd never navigated heartbreak, let alone having everyone criticize it in the public eye. I felt embarrassed. I felt weird. I was really sad. And it was just like going through all these emotions and going through it with everyone staring at me, it was mortifying."

"In every one of those situations, as hard — and sometimes embarrassing — as it was, I learned so much about myself. All of those relationships were necessary for me. We all come here with lessons that we have to learn, and those relationships provided me with lessons that got me to where I am right now. For that, I'm grateful. But it has been hard. It's been a difficult part of my life," she said.

"I am proud of how my ex-husband Will and I have been taking care of our children. I am beyond grateful he is their father, and I don't think a ten-year marriage constitutes failure. That being said, getting a divorce really sucks," she added.

No matter how much she or anyone else rooted for them, Lady Gaga and Taylor never got back together.