Scarlett Johansson: Divorce Devastated Me

Johansson on April 12

Scarlett Johansson says her marriage to Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Reynolds was a “beautiful thing” despite their sudden split last year after nearly three years of marriage.

“It was a beautiful thing. The falling in love and getting married and making that commitment…I think it’s nice to know that you’re capable of loving somebody in that way,” the Avengers actress told US Vogue. “I think it’s rare.”

Still, “I don’t feel on the other side of it completely,” the actress admits about her divorce late last year. “It was horrible. It was devastating. It really throws you. You think that your life is going to be thrown one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn’t work out.”

“There’s no way to navigate [divorce.] Nobody can give you the right answer. It’s never anything you want to hear. It’s a very lonely thing. It’s the loneliest thing you’ll ever do, in some way.”

With a difficult year behind her and focused on the future, Johansson, who is now dating New York-based advertising creative director Nate Naylor, says she's learned one thing to be true: “It gets better.”