Scarlett: Marrying Ryan Reynolds was the best

Scarlett Johansson: Marrying Ryan Reynolds was ‘the best thing I ever did’.

Scarlett Johansson has said marrying Ryan Reynolds was ‘the best thing I ever did’.

She made the comments in the January issue of Cosmopolitan, in which she discussed saying ‘I do’ to Reynolds.

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Johansson said: “I'm a big believer that when something feels right, you should do it.

"I'm a big believer in instinct. Getting married was the right thing to do because it was natural.

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It grew out of a romance and love and a desire to have a future with somebody, and I was very fortunate that I married somebody who turned out to be the person I thought he would be."

The couple split in 2010 and Johansson added she missed having a partner and a confidant.

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She said: “Relationships are complicated.

"Being married is a living, breathing process. I think I was not fully aware of the peaks and the valleys. I wasn't prepared to hunker down and do the work... Both of us were extremely busy. We spent so much time apart. It's very difficult."

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