Today in great internet rumors, multiple fans claim they spotted Twilight costars and real-life exes Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson hanging out together IRL on February 11, at Edendale, a bar in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood. "Was just at bar enjoying my friends birthday and in comes Robert Pattinson which blew my Twilight mind up, and then Kristen Stewart walked in and now I'm reliving my high school Twilight fantasies," one wrote. "It wouldn't have been cool to take a picture of them, they just seemed like two friends hanging out," she added later.
Of course, no photos surfaced to confirm this hangout actually happened, and some fans think this Robsten hang is just great internet fiction. Stewart and Pattinson haven't been photographed together since November 2012.
Pattinson is officially single after ending things with his fiancée FKA Twigs in October. Stewart has been most recently romantically linked to Stella Maxwell; they were last spotted out together in December 2017. No breakup has been reported, though they haven't been photographed out together in the last two months.
Stewart and Pattinson dated for nearly four years between 2008 and 2012. The relationship ended with a scandal: Stewart was photographed kissing Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders, then issued a public apology to Pattinson in July 2012. The two reconciled but officially broke up for good in May 2013. Stewart, over the last two years, has opened up about what it was like dating Pattinson.
"People wanted me and Rob to be together so badly that our relationship was made into a product," Stewart explained to T Magazine in an August 2016 interview. "It wasn't real life anymore. And that was gross to me." She was closed publicly because "it's not that I want to hide who I am or hide anything I'm doing in my life. It's that I don't want to become a part of a story for entertainment value."
"When I was dating Rob, the public were the enemy—and that is no way to live," Stewart told the Sunday Times later in a March 2017 interview."I didn't talk about my first relationships that went public [like with Rob] because I wanted things that are mine to be mine. I hated it—that details of my life were being turned into a commodity and peddled around the world."
Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). She previously held positions at InStyle and Cosmopolitan. When she's not working, she loves running around Central Park, making people take #ootd pics of her, and exploring New York City.
