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Almost five years since Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders and Kristen Stewart were revealed to have cheated on their partners during filming by photos splashed across the tabloids, Sanders has finally spoken publicly about the controversy.
In an interview to promote his latest film Ghost In The Shell starring Scarlett Johansson, he described their kiss as a “momentary lapse”.
“You never know what’s coming in life,” he told the UK’s Metro. “Around every corner there’s something unexpected, and that’s life. You just have to brush yourself off and continue moving forward the best you can.
“Everyone makes mistakes,” he continued. “I am bound to make more mistakes, and I wouldn’t expect my life to be exciting if I didn’t. If you took people off the table for a momentary lapse, there would be no one making art.”
It’s not known how the comments will be interpreted by his ex-wife and mother of his two children model Liberty Ross, who filed for divorce six months after the scandal.
In 2013 she told Vanity Fair of the July 2012 incident “It was really the worst, really the worst. I have no words to describe what we went through.”
At the time Kristen issued an emotional public apology. “I’m deeply sorry for the hurt and embarrassment I’ve caused to those close to me and everyone this has affected. This momentary indiscretion has jeopardised the most important thing in my life, the person I love and respect the most, Rob.
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“I love him. I love him. I’m so sorry.”
But her Twilight co-star seemed surprisingly okay about the situation, at least in a 2014 interview with Esquire.
“S*** happens, you know? It’s just young people…It’s normal! And honestly, who gives a s***?”
