Actress Dakota Johnson and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin separated after nearly eight years together, which reportedly left the Fifty Shades film series star feeling “incredible pain”
Dakota Johnson became unhappy longtime beau Chris Martin was “dragging his feet” over their wedding date, sources have claimed.
The couple are believed to have ended their eight-year relationship in part over frustration around this, as Dakota, 35, was “sick” a date hadn’t been set. The pair got engaged years after starting their on-off relationship in 2017, following Chris’ divorce with actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
A source told Page Six: “She was sick of him dragging his feet on setting a date for the wedding.” Chris, 48, had been married to Gwyneth for 13 years and has two children with the actress.
And other sources close to Dakota and Chris understand the couple have had disagreements about having kids together. Another insider said: “They broke up over Chris Martin not wanting to have more kids.”
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Unlike the Coldplay singer, Dakota has never been married previously and she doesn’t have any children. A source previously told the Sun: “They really tried to work through their issues but the age gap was often a problem. She’d [also] expressed that she may want children in the future, whereas Chris is kind of done with that part of his life.”
The source further told the outlet that Johnson and Martin had been “back and forth on issues for years” — and had discussions about everything, including children.
The split reportedly left Dakota, who was in the Fifty Shades film series and last year’s Madame Web, feeling “incredible pain”. Coldplay’s epic world tour continues and Dakota has been away on shoots for upcoming films Materialists and Verity recently. It is thought their flourishing careers have also provided challenges for their relationship.
A source had told The Sun: “Dakota wanted this relationship to work. She not only loves Chris, but his two kids, and that loss feels incredibly painful. The decision to end things was amicable, but Dakota is finding it hard. Over the past year, it became clear that their relationship had stalled and wasn’t moving forwards.
“Settling down, as in Chris properly taking his foot off the pedal, isn’t going to happen. And, ultimately, it was one of the many straws that broke the back of them.”
When news of the couple’s split emerged recently, an insider told the press: “They just haven’t been able to figure out to make it official. Dakota held a flame for them to be together because she loved him so much and loved his kids so much.
“Breakups aren’t instant and they continued to breakup and makeup and sometimes things would work when they were away from each other, while they were working because absence makes the heart grow fonder, but then they’d get back together and little things just kept adding up to where they weren’t right for each other anymore… Dakota is devastated that she isn’t going to be around his kids as much anymore, but wants them to know that she is always there for them.”