It’s something we’ve all gone through – that feeling on rejection when you just can’t win someone over. It might come before a relationship even starts or even after years when a relationship falls a part, it can leave a person feeling as though they weren’t good enough and that they’ve been romantically rejected because of it. It can be a traumatic time for anyone, and these 5 celebrities have all battled their strong feelings of rejection to come out the other side. Some might need a break from dating for a while to put their feelings of rejection to aside, while others try not to let it hinder their other romantic opportunities and are ready to bounce back immediately.
Demi Moore
After parting ways with long-time love Ashton Kutcher, Demi had feelings of rejection she had to work through: “What scares me is that I’m going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I’m not really loveable, that I’m not worthy of being loved. That there’s something fundamentally wrong with me… The fight against gravity for me is to find that love for myself that gives me the courage to reach my fullest potential.”
Drake
Drake was rejected by a girl he really liked and it was a hard time for him:”I fell for somebody I liked so much. So, so much. Not a celebrity, just a normal girl. She was like, ‘I won’t be in a relationship with you, you’re a rapper and I think more of myself than to go through the bulls**t; I can’t read the rumours every day whether they’re true or not.’ That killed me. Damn, it was a lose/lose, a fight I can’t even fight because she’s already bowing out.”
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga says she has a problem dealing with rejection so tries to stay out of relationships: “I’ve only ever really been in love once. He didn’t want me to do this job. He wanted me to stay at home, so I left. It broke my heart but also made me realise music is my first love. My music’s never going to roll over in bed one morning and tell me it doesn’t love me anymore. I have a problem with rejection.”
Jennie Garth
Jennie felt rejected after her divorce from director Peter Facinelli and believes it mostly has to do with not feeling like she was good enough: ”It’s weird and sad, but I really realised through this whole experience how much I loved him, how deeply I loved him and how deeply I loved us. I think with any sort of rejection, you’re angry that you weren’t enough for that person. So I don’t know if I’m angry at myself for not being enough, or if I’m angry at him for not considering me to be enough.”
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift feels rejection can be an inspiration to her song writing because it always feels differently: “I think that love is always going to be a huge theme in what I write about just because there are no two similar relationships, there are no two times that you feel love the same way or hurt the same way or [feel] rejection in the same way. It’s all different and I’m fascinated by that. I really love to go back to human interaction and the way we make each other feel. But that at 22 is different than it was at 18 or 19 when I made my last album and 16 and 17 when I made ‘Fearless’. As you grow, you change in the way you process emotion.”
