If I’m being honest, I always believed that Charlize Theron and Sean Penn would never make it as a couple long-term. What surprised me was that they actually did make it work for a year and a half and that Charlize truly seemed to make Sean into less of an a–hole. Now sources are whispering to Us Weekly (they broke the story) and People Magazine that Charlize and Sean are done, and that Charlize was the one to break things off. Interesting.

Sad news. Sean Penn and his fiancee Charlize Theron have a called it quits after nearly a year and a half together, multiple sources exclusively confirm to Us Weekly. One insider tells Us that the high-profile pair, who got together in December 2013, decided that their romance was over following their most recent jaunt to the Cannes Film Festival in the south of France. The source tells Us that Theron, 39, was the one to break things off with the fellow Oscar winner.

Theron and Penn, 54, had known each other for decades before their friendship blossomed into romance. A year into their relationship, Us exclusively reported in December 2014 that they had gotten secretly engaged during a trip to Paris. There was, however, no elaborate proposal. “There’s no ring, but they are committed,” an insider told Us at the time.

[From Us Weekly]

People Magazine points out that they haven’t been seen together since Cannes in mid-May and sources tell People that in the last month, Charlize stayed at her Hollywood home (with Jackson) and Penn has been staying at his Malibu home. Charlize is apparently in England now, filming The Huntsman and Sean is staying put in California. Hm. It does seem rather sudden, doesn’t it? I mean, they were completely loved up throughout the spring, appearing on multiple red carpets together and talking about their relationship in interviews. It seems like Cannes was the breaking point. But why?

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