Susan Sarandon revealed Wednesday that her split from Tim Robbins, her partner of 23 years , made her "feel like a failure. It's a big deal, but again, it's an opportunity to grow," the year-old actress told Reuters. I thought love conquered all and I had to reevaluate everything. And you need your girlfriends, you need to take long, long walks until you're exhausted and no longer freaking out and you hold on until a new dawn.
Then you get another chance. Sarandon -- whose new comedy, " Jeff Who Lives at Home ," opens on Friday -- also sized up what single life has been for her. It's traumatic and exhilarating," she said. Tim Robbins filed for divorce this week after getting secretly married to his girlfriend Gartiela Brancusi.
TMZ first reported that the actor filed legal documents in Los Angeles on Wednesday to terminate a relationship the public never knew he was in. While it's been rumored that he and Brancusi have been dating for around three years, the pair have never confirmed they were dating, let alone married. The pair were first linked in February when Robbins brought Brancusi as his date to the premiere of his new show Here and Now, and the two have walked numerous red carpets together since.
We may never know exactly what went wrong between Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, but we can safely assume that infidelity was never an issue for the couple. Speaking about jealousy and cheating with The Guardian in , the actor shared how "for the most part, I give Tim a lot of rope [ Calling herself "a serial monogamist," Sarandon told PrideSource , "I haven't really had a large dating career" and, in an interview with The Telegraph , she shared she "was never that wild," adding, "Throughout my life I've been with so few people.
I was slow to lose my virginity. It's clear there's no bad blood between Sarandon and Robbins. The exes have been publicly spotted many times since their split, including having lunch with son Jack in Venice, California in When AARP asked Susan Sarandon in about the reason behind her and Tim Robbins' split, she once again refused to offer any one specific reason, but she did reveal that her Broadway stint in "Exit the King" was a definite a-ha moment and a turning point in their relationship.
As Playbill notes, the play, written by Eugene Ionesco, is an "absurdist drama [which] follows King Berenger I in the final day of his life, surrounded by a decaying kingdom, as he refuses to acknowledge death and slowly acquiesces to its reality.
I still haven't gotten to the point where I think that's cool. While it was reported that Susan Sarandon may have left Tim Robbins for a younger man , that doesn't really seem to be the case.
Not only did Sarandon's publicist deny those claims , but the actress herself has shown through the years that it's never been about age for her. Magazine in via the Daily Mail , adding, "When you are in love, the question of age, sex, color no longer hold any importance. What's more, Robbins is actually 12 years her junior and although her next boyfriend, screenwriter Jonathan Bricklin, is 31 years younger than her they split in after five years of dating, per Page Six , Sarandon has made it clear that she doesn't look for partners based on their age.
Instead, she just searches for a true connection. Speaking with Australia's Daily Telegraph in , she explained, "I find it difficult now to find older guys who would be appropriate. It sure sounds like Sarandon wouldn't have put much weight on Robbins' age, instead focusing on the union itself.
Does Susan Sarandon think she could have done more to save her relationship with Tim Robbins? That's what it sounded like when the actress told Reuters in that she felt "like a failure" after their split. What's more, she also told The Telegraph back in that she hadn't necessarily been happy to part ways with Robbins, recalling how "people were coming up to me in the street and saying, 'I cried and cried when I heard. That being said, Sarandon tried to use their breakup, as well as every other failed relationship, as "an opportunity to grow.
Then you get another chance. It's traumatic and exhilarating. The one thing that's been really clear to me is that you have to think of your own life and your relationship and everything as a living organism: It's constantly moving, changing, growing," she told the outlet, concluding, "I think long-term relationships need to be constantly reevaluated and talked about.
Susan Sarandon has often talked about the importance of regularly reevaluating long-term relationships, but based on a interview with The Guardian , it seems that she didn't necessarily take her own advice and it may have resulted in her and Tim Robbins' split.
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