Jenny Slate opens up on split from Chris Evans
Jenny Slate has hinted that her ex-boyfriend Chris Evans’ global fame caused problems in their relationship – because it stopped them doing normal things as a couple.
The actress-and-comedian and the ‘Avengers’ star, who plays Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films, broke up in February 2017 after nine months of dating.
Jenny has a lot of happy memories of her time with Chris but admits his level of celebrity was something she had never experienced before as she is best known for her voice roles in animations such as ‘Zootopia’, ‘The Secret Life of Pets’ and ‘The Lego Batman Movie’.
In an interview with website Vulture, she said: "Chris is a very, very famous person. For him to go to a restaurant is totally different than for me to go. I sit in my window and I say ‘Hi’ to people on the street. I have more freedom because I’m not Captain America. I’m mostly a cartoon."
Jenny, 34, and Chris, 35, met on the set of the movie ‘Gifted’ shortly after she had separated from her filmmaker husband Dean Fleischer-Camp and she admits that she may not have been in the right mindset to embark on a new romance.
She shared: "Even though we had an amicable divorce, I think that’s still something that you need to mourn. When you get separated from somebody that you actually care about, it is the destruction of a belief system. That is really, really sad. I just didn’t have the tools. And I didn’t think very hard about that, to be honest."
Chris recently gave an interview to Esquire magazine in which he told his interviewer that he was "steering clear of those questions" when quizzed about his split from Jenny.
However, the pretty brunette has no issue talking about her relationship and subsequent split from the Hollywood hunk, even spilling that she initially thought he was too much of "a different speed" than her to date.
She said: "I don’t mind talking about him at all. He’s a lovely person. I don’t know. It feels like such a huge thing. Last year was a giant, big year for my heart. I’ve never, ever thought to keep anything private because that’s not really what I’m like, and now I’m learning those things, and they’re weird, kind of demented lessons to learn."
Jenny and Chris have not had much contact recently but they will be reunited when they go on the promotional tour for ‘Gifted’ – which follows the story of Chris’ character Frank Adler who tries to give his seven-year-old mathematics prodigy niece a normal childhood following the death of her mother.
Discussing their estrangement, she said: "I think it’s probably best. I’d love to be his friend one day, but we threw down pretty hard. No regrets, though. Ever."
