Hollywood marriages are notorious for their short life-spans and juicy break-ups, occasionally drowned in scandal. Kirsten Stewart, best known for her role as Bella in the Twilight movies, was the subject of hot gossip in Hollywood when she attracted Rupert Sanders, the director for whom she was working. The tabloids focused on Sanders and Stewart. Stewart was at the time, in a relationship with co-star Robert Pattinson, and her cheating scandal remained on the covers of Us Weekly, People, and Style magazines for weeks. However, Sanders was not innocent, and the tabloids left one essential person out of their articles: Liberty Ross, the wife of Rupert Sanders. In this exclusive Vanity Fair interview, Liberty Ross recalls her experience of the scandal in her first public account of these horrid events.
Author of the article, Evgenia Peretz, crafts the story around personal anecdotes, recounted by Liberty Ross, and a friend, Atticus. Peretz begins the article by recalling the basics of the affair between Sanders and Stewart, then going into Ross's life in the present. Peretz describes her zen Malibu home, juxtaposed against the chaos of her divorce with Sanders. However, she soon lets Ross pratically take over the interview and the entire article becomes solely about Ross's life with Sanders. Blooming when Ross was just 18 years old, their love was deep. Ross describes their relationship as "a team," which later on in the essay is starkly juxtaposed against the tumultuous climax of their marriage, when Sanders revealed his affair 20 hours before tabloids would expose him. This display of betrayal by Sanders is emphasized when put next to the loving, passionate relationship that Ross came to know.
Evgenia Peretz utilizes this juxtaposition of Liberty's pure bliss during her marriage to Sanders against the harsh reality of Sanders' affair with Stewart to portray the utter hardship that Ross experienced.
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