Kristen Stewart–Robert Pattinson Cheating Scandal Explained — And Why Donald Trump Wouldn’t Stop Tweeting About It
Twilight’s power couple imploded when Kristen Stewart’s clandestine fling with director Rupert Sanders went public—shattering her romance with Robert Pattinson, igniting a tabloid firestorm, and even drawing a furious tirade from Donald Trump.
Yes, we are going back to 2012, when a vampire breakup turned into a tabloid meteor strike and somehow pulled Donald Trump into the blast radius. The Kristen Stewart–Robert Pattinson cheating scandal has popped back up thanks to Jennifer Lawrence, who just asked Pattinson about Trump’s very public play-by-play of their split. Let’s rewind, fill in the wild details, and get to the new bit.
The 2012 meltdown: a movie, a scandal, a breakup
Right after Snow White and the Huntsman hit theaters in 2012, photos surfaced of Kristen Stewart kissing director Rupert Sanders. At the time, Stewart was with her Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson, and Sanders was married to model Liberty Ross. Stewart made a rare public apology to Pattinson. Ross later filed for divorce.
Pattinson and Stewart tried to patch things up, but it didn’t hold. The relationship ended, and Twilight fans collectively processed the loss.
Enter Trump, stage left
Here’s the curveball: Donald Trump, then a businessman and reality TV figure with a very active Twitter (now X) habit, spent months weighing in on Pattinson’s love life. And by weighing in, I mean posting again and again about how Rob should not take Kristen back and why he was certain she would cheat again. The posts resurfaced this week via @BuzzingPop and they’re somehow even more surreal in one place.
- He urged Pattinson not to reconcile with Stewart, saying Rob could do better and predicting she would repeat the behavior.
- He doubled down with absolute-confidence takes, essentially asking if he is ever wrong.
- He claimed the relationship was permanently damaged and could not go back to what it was.
- He even invited Pattinson to the 2012 Miss Universe pageant.
- Right around the release of the final Twilight movie that November, he hoped Rob would not be seen in public with Kristen.
It reads like a running commentary from someone who wasn’t involved at all but was extremely invested anyway.
So why is this back now?
Because Jennifer Lawrence brought it up to Pattinson. The two are working together on Die My Love, and when she stopped by The Graham Norton Show on October 17, she admitted she absolutely asked him about Trump’s breakup tweets, and asked fast. Her words:
"I mean, if you think I didn’t ask him about Donald Trump tweeting about the breakup with Kristen, obviously. It was, like, three days after the photos came out with her with, you know, whatever. And Donald Trump was like, 'He better leave her. He can do better than her,' going on a huge rant."
Lawrence also made a point not to moralize the past, saying, simply, "Young people make mistakes!"
Where everyone is now
More than a decade later, Stewart and Pattinson are on good terms. No, really. They’ve said as much, and there’s no lingering public drama. Trump’s tweets remain a time capsule of 2012 internet energy, and that might be the strangest part of the whole thing: of all people, he seemed the most determined to steer a celebrity breakup.