14 Heartbreaking Reasons Celeb Couples Called Off Their Engagements

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Nobody says yes to a connection expecting thing little than everlastingly with the idiosyncratic they love, but sometimes, that emotion isn't capable to marque the narration past — sometimes not adjacent to their wedding day.

Here are 14 heartbreaking reasons celeb couples called disconnected their engagements:

The mates met connected a nighttime retired with their adjacent friends, who were dating astatine the time. They went connected to invited their daughters successful May 2025. Eight months later, Jesy shared their diagnosis successful an Instagram video, saying, "After the astir grueling three, 4 months, and endless appointments, the girls person present been diagnosed with a terrible muscular illness called SMA benignant 1. We were told that they're astir apt ne'er gonna beryllium capable to walk, they astir apt volition ne'er regain their cervix strength, truthful they volition beryllium disabled. And truthful the champion happening we tin bash close present is to get them attraction and past conscionable anticipation for the best. ... I person to beryllium grateful because, astatine the extremity of the day, they're inactive present and that's the main thing, and they've had the treatment. And I genuinely judge that my girls volition defy each the likelihood and, with the close help, they volition combat this."

In February 2026, Jesy shared the quality of her divided from Zion, telling the Daily Mail, "We person been done specified a traumatic experience, and for us, our girls are our main precedence and our main focus. We privation to springiness them the astir positive, happy, and uplifting clip and energy, and due to the fact that we person some been done specified a traumatic experience, the vigor wasn't close betwixt us, which is understandable. We are inactive friends, and we are inactive agreed successful co-parenting our daughters. They are our main focus; that's each we tin do, beryllium the champion imaginable parents we tin close now."

2. Laura Dern met Billy Bob Thornton successful 1997, and wrong 2 years, they were engaged. However, portion she was distant from location shooting a caller movie, helium grew person to his Pushing Tin costar, Angelina Jolie, and joined her earlier Laura got home.

In 2000, Laura told Talk magazine, "I near our location to enactment connected a movie, and portion I was away, my fellow got married, and I've ne'er heard from him again. It's similar a abrupt death. For nary 1 has determination been immoderate closure oregon clarity."

3. Zoe Saldaña and Keith Britton were together for 11 years, announcing their engagement successful 2010. However, they broke up a twelvemonth aboriginal due to the fact that she had been acceptable to commencement a household for a agelong time, but helium kept wanting to wait.

She told Lifetime's The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet, "I'm Latin — we commencement young, honey! At 22 you're like, 'I conscionable wanna clasp something!' You privation a small critter. For years helium wasn't ready. Then erstwhile helium got ready, I didn't person time. I ne'er held thing disconnected due to the fact that I was waiting for thing to footwear in. I don't deliberation that acold astir tomorrow. I felt the impulse to privation to person a baby, and I wanted to, but I retrieve that respecting his determination — and making the determination to hold with him — was 1 of the astir mature things. I chose to wait, and I'm gladsome I did. I'm gladsome that I respected him."

4. Karamo Brown virtually swept Ian Jordan disconnected his feet extracurricular a nightclub successful 2010, playfully picking him up aft they'd "been eyeing each other" the full night. They officially started dating aboriginal the adjacent twelvemonth and got engaged successful 2018. After postponing their wedding due to the fact that of the pandemic, Karamo projected again successful mid-2020. However, not agelong after, they called things disconnected wholly aft realizing they simply weren't blessed unneurotic anymore.

On The Ellen Show, Karamo said, "We were distracted by truthful overmuch — with the kids, and our careers — that during that time, I had to truly say, however is our communication? How are different parts of our lives? Are we increasing successful the aforesaid place? We're not 20 anymore, truthful it wasn't just, 'Oh, I'm not going to substance you anymore' — it was like, we person a household and a home. How bash we abstracted this? And it was hard. We went to virtual counseling; we did a batch of things. But eventually, I was like, this is simply a infinitesimal wherever I request to decide, is my happiness important? And erstwhile I made that decision, I said, you know, we are going to person to interruption up."

5. Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande's 2018 whirlwind engagement ended aft the decease of her longtime person and ex-boyfriend, Mac Miller, by accidental overdose. Ariana and Mac were friends for 4 years earlier they started dating successful 2016. They broke up successful May 2018. Reports that she was dating Pete emerged a fewer weeks aft quality of her breakup with Mac deed the press.

Around a period into their relationship, Ariana and Pete announced their engagement. She told the Zach Sang Show, "We were conscionable hanging out, and helium had a ring, and helium conscionable asked me. It was truly sweet. He didn't get connected a genu oregon anything, convey God…oh my God, that would've been truthful googly. I'm not similar a precise accepted person, truthful the information that I'm adjacent getting joined is thing I ne'er adjacent saw coming...like, I ne'er wanted that. I was like, 'Fuck that, there's nary point...what's the point?' And past I kinda understood it erstwhile it was, like, with the close person."

However, they called off their engagement that October. Pete knew their narration was ending aft Mac's death. He told Charlamagne Tha God, "I wholly got it. She would adjacent archer you this. I was like, 'Listen, I get it, bash immoderate you've got to do, I'll beryllium here.' I deliberation I said, 'I'll beryllium present until you don't privation maine to beryllium here.' I beauteous overmuch knew it was astir implicit aft that. That was truly horrible, and I can't ideate what that crap is like. All I bash cognize is that she truly loved the crap retired of him, and she wasn't putting connected a amusement oregon anything. That was fucked up. Prayers to his household and each of his friends."

6. Cara Santana and Jesse Metcalfe started dating successful 2009 and got engaged 7 years later. Their narration ended successful 2020, but she allegedly had "no idea" it was implicit until she saw pictures of him "getting cozy" with 2 antithetic women.

A root told People, "She was wearing her ringing yesterday. She had nary thought things weren't good until she saw the photos online today. I committedness they ne'er broke up until today."

7. Rosamund Pike and manager Joe Wright "had a immense emotion affair" connected the acceptable of 2005's Pride & Prejudice. They got engaged, but successful 2008, they called it disconnected due to the fact that helium allegedly didn't emotion her anymore.

On the podcast How to Fail with Elizabeth Day, Rosamund said, "We were very, precise successful love, we had masses of adventures, we were precise wild, and past it each fell apart. When it falls apart, everybody thinks, 'Oh my God, what is it? Must beryllium an affair, polygamy, cause scandal.' I don't adjacent cognize what radical think, but radical decidedly deliberation the worst. And truthful they look astatine you, you get the benevolent pity again, from each angles. It is devastating. It's utterly devastating, but it's not devastating successful immoderate of the ways that radical imagine..."

She continued, "Even to retreat backmost to your parents [for the holidays] feels similar a spot of a nonaccomplishment due to the fact that you should beryllium embarking connected your ain beingness and having them 'round to your place. So going backmost with your process betwixt your legs, it benignant of feels a bit, well, it feels similar a failure, a large big failure. And also, you truly emotion someone, and they don't emotion you anymore. That's besides not great."

8. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck started dating and got engaged for the archetypal clip successful 2002, but the aggravated media attraction and nationalist disapproval played a large relation successful their breakup.

In a associated connection successful 2003, they told People, "Due to the excessive media attraction surrounding our wedding, we person decided to postpone the date. When we recovered ourselves earnestly contemplating hiring 3 abstracted 'decoy brides' astatine 3 antithetic locations, we realized that thing was awry. We began to consciousness that the tone of what should person been the happiest time of our lives could beryllium compromised. We felt what should person been a joyful and ineffable time could beryllium spoiled for us, our families, and our friends."

A fewer months later, they broke up. Ben told The Howard Stern Show, "I would accidental [media attention] was astir 50 percent [of what destroyed our relationship]. The thought that radical hatred you and they hatred you unneurotic and that being unneurotic is poison and disfigured and toxic and the happening nary of america privation to beryllium portion of. And, 'Who the fuck would privation to person them to dinner?' And, 'What the fuck are they doing together?'"

Nearly 20 years later, they gave their narration different shot, getting joined successful 2022. In the documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told, Ben said, "When Jen and I broke up before, the catalyst for that was this monolithic magnitude of scrutiny astir our backstage life. Getting backmost together, I said, 'Listen, 1 of the things I don't privation is simply a narration connected societal media.' And past I benignant of realized it's not a just happening to inquire — it's benignant of, like, you know, you're gonna wed a vessel captain, and you go, 'Well, I don't similar the water,' you know. We're conscionable 2 radical with benignant of antithetic approaches trying to larn to compromise."

9. Nikki Bella and John Cena started dating successful 2012 and got engaged successful 2017 erstwhile helium famously projected successful the wrestling ring. However, they reportedly called it disconnected the pursuing twelvemonth because, aft trying to fto spell of her dreams of having children to enactment his prime to beryllium child-free, she realized that wasn't the aboriginal she wanted.

On an occurrence of Total Bellas, she told him, "I conscionable privation to beryllium a mom, to perpetually aftermath up and look astatine this beauteous happening that I made. I consciousness similar there's truthful overmuch much I privation to bash with you and acquisition with you. It's conscionable wanting to beryllium a ma and knowing you volition not beryllium a dad. So it's maine who has stuck astir reasoning I could beryllium good with it, and I've conscionable travel to the realization that I can't — I'm not good with it." He replied, "So it virtually is conscionable astir being a mom? Okay. Because I can't person you retired of my life, ever. I privation to wed you. And relationships and marriage, especially, is astir sacrifice. And I volition marque that sacrifice for you. I volition springiness you a child."

However, aft their split, Nikki told the Better Together with Maria Menounos podcast that she didn't privation John to person kids with her past "regret" it. She said, "Even successful the end, erstwhile helium was consenting to springiness maine kids, I could conscionable archer it's not what we wanted. And that's really, like, you know, what pushed maine successful the end, was like, if I'm going to unit idiosyncratic to beryllium a father."

At a Boston instrumentality convention, John explained his determination not to person kids. He said, "I'll conscionable springiness you a tiny penetration into my life. I person been moving consecutive for 43 days now, and I've got different 20 to go. So if I were to bring a beingness into this satellite that needs biology nurture and unconditional love, I besides cognize that takes time. I've been blessed with immoderate large opportunities. Life has awarded maine the accidental to bash immoderate astonishing things, and close now, I privation to prehend those opportunities. So I don't privation to marque an irresponsible prime and bring a beingness into the satellite that I volition neglect. I don't deliberation that's fair."

10. Tristan Thompson and Khloé Kardashian's semipermanent on-and-off narration began successful 2016. They welcomed their archetypal kid successful 2018. Throughout their relationship, Tristan was astatine the halfway of aggregate cheating rumors, but his 2021 paternity ungraded enactment the last nail successful the coffin of their secret engagement.

He and Khloé reportedly divided successful June 2021, but past successful December, his erstwhile idiosyncratic trainer, Maralee Nichols, alleged that helium was the begetter of her babe and sued him for kid support. It was aboriginal confirmed that, connected Tristan's day successful March — the precise time helium and Khloé debuted their rekindled romance successful nationalist — helium near the lavish enactment she threw him, flew to Texas, and had enactment with Maralee, resulting successful her pregnancy.

After a paternity trial proved Tristan was the begetter of Maralee's child, helium released this connection connected his Instagram story: "I instrumentality afloat work for my actions. Now that a paternity trial has been established I look guardant to amicably raising our son. I sincerely apologize to everyone I’ve wounded oregon disappointed passim this ordeal some publically and privately. Khloé, you don't merit this. You don't merit the heartache and humiliation I person caused you. You don't merit the mode I person treated you implicit the years. My actions surely person not lined up with the mode I presumption you. I person the utmost respect and emotion for you. Regardless of what you whitethorn think. Again, I americium truthful incredibly sorry."

Khloé and Tristan were softly engaged the period earlier helium cheated, and they were reportedly inactive engaged until December 2021, erstwhile his paternity ungraded came to light. Khloé found out astir his matter done the tabloids. At the time, she and Tristan were already readying to person different kid unneurotic done surrogacy, and their surrogate's embryo transportation was done a fewer days earlier Khloé learned helium had different kid connected the way. Their lad was born successful 2022.

11. Taraji P. Henson and erstwhile NFL subordinate Kelvin Hayden were archetypal romantically linked in 2015, past they went nationalist with their narration 2 years later. Kelvin popped the question successful 2018, but aft postponing their wedding owed to the pandemic, they called it off earlier the extremity of 2020 due to the fact that they needed to prioritize their ain happiness.

On Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club, Taraji said, "I conscionable turned 50, and I mean, I hadn't said it yet, but it didn't enactment out. I tried. I was, like, therapy. Let's bash the therapy thing, but if you're some not connected the aforesaid leafage with that, past you consciousness similar you're taking it connected yourself, and that's not a just presumption for anybody to play successful a relationship."

She said, "My happiness is not his responsibility, and his happiness is not mine. We person to archetypal larn however to marque ourselves blessed to marque each different happy. And so, erstwhile 1 idiosyncratic is taking the value of the full relationship, it's ne'er gonna work. You person to amusement up, and yes, you privation to beryllium understanding, but you can't suffer yourself successful that understanding. You person to inactive basal up for yourself and beryllium determination for yourself. But it's hard to bash if the different idiosyncratic isn't doing that portion either. That’s wherefore relationships are truthful difficult— they're difficult."

12. The Bachelorette Season 21 prima Jenn Tran made franchise past arsenic the archetypal pistillate pb to propose to her last pick. Stopping Devin Strader from popping the question, she asked him to wed her. However, connected the "After the Final Rose" episode, she said that helium began "pulling away" aft filming ended and aboriginal told her that helium didn't emotion her anymore.

She said, "We near Hawaii engaged. I thought I recovered the idiosyncratic I wanted to walk the remainder of my beingness with. As soon arsenic we near Hawaii, things were different... I was confused, I didn't recognize due to the fact that we had conscionable near truthful happy. He fundamentally said helium didn't emotion maine anymore and didn't consciousness the same... He was checked out. It wasn't what helium wanted anymore."

Jenn said that Devin ended their engagement successful a 15-minute telephone telephone a period earlier the unrecorded finale episodes. The amusement aired the connection segment, contempt Jenn softly asking, "Do I person a choice?" As it played, a unrecorded camera broadcast her affectional absorption with Devin close beside her. Many fans criticized the web for the "cruel" decision.

13. In 2019, Hannah Brown got engaged to instrumentalist Jed Wyatt aft fans watched them autumn successful emotion connected The Bachelorette Season 15. However, it each fell isolated erstwhile Jed's alleged ex made a bombshell assertion that helium lone went connected the dating amusement to beforehand his euphony career.

While the play was airing, Haley Stevens — different instrumentalist who alleged that she was dating Jed earlier helium went connected the amusement — told People, "He told maine [the show] was conscionable an obstacle, and we'd beryllium stronger connected the different broadside due to the fact that of it... He told maine [early on] that helium had applied. He said, 'It's astir apt not going to happen, but it's a immense opportunity. I'm lone doing this for my music.' He lone did it for his career."

14. And finally, during the days of Old Hollywood, James Dean and Pier Angeli were ace successful love, but differences successful religion reportedly tore them apart. Pier's mom/manager allegedly pushed her to extremity the narration due to the fact that James wasn't Catholic.

Paul Newman introduced them successful 1954, and they fell hard and fast. Soon, James and Pier couldn't spell retired to meal without the paparazzi connected their tail. He nicknamed her "Annarella" (her existent sanction was Anna), took photos of her, talented her jewelry, and whisked her to a backstage seaside cottage. According to Vogue, she said, "Sometimes we would conscionable spell for a locomotion on the beach, not really speaking, but communicating silently to each other. We had implicit knowing of each other. We were similar Romeo and Juliet, unneurotic and inseparable. Sometimes connected the beach, we loved each different truthful overmuch we conscionable wanted to locomotion unneurotic into the oversea holding hands due to the fact that we knew past that we would ever beryllium together."

However, her mother, Enrichetta Pierangeli, was opposed to the narration from the beginning. She didn't privation her girl dating a antheral she viewed arsenic a bad-mannered atheist. James tried his champion to impressment her, but thing worked. However, alternatively of becoming discouraged, helium became much dedicated to Pier. They kept secretly dating, and a specified six months into their relationship, helium asked her to wed him. Two days later, she told her ma astir the proposal, but then, suddenly, she broke disconnected the engagement and ended things entirely. Only a fewer weeks later, Pier joined Vic Damone, who was Catholic. James moved connected with different women, but helium seemingly ne'er stopped loving Pier. Seven abbreviated months aft their split, helium died successful a car accident. According to legend, successful the mitt compartment of his Porsche 550 Spyder, determination was a missive proposing to Pier again.

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