Sean Penn claims he never felt loved by his ex-wives Madonna and Robin Wright and struggled to cope with his divorce until he found strength through his charity work in Haiti
Sean Penn thinks this ex-wives never loved him.
The acclaimed actor - who was previously married to Madonna for four years until 1989 and actress Robin Wright for 13 years until July 2010 - claims he feels like he has never been loved and believes the relationships were fraudulent.
The 52-year-old actor - who also dated Scarlett Johansson last year - told the January issue of Esquire magazine: ''There is no shame in saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that. I have been the only one that was unaware of the fraud in a few of these circumstances blindly.''
The 'Tree of Life' star admitted his divorce from Robin - with whom he shares two children Dylan, 21, and Hopper, 19, - was a real eye opener after years of struggling to make sense of their on-again/off-again relationship.
He said: ''When you get divorced, all the truths that come out, you sit there and you go, 'What the f*** was I doing? What was I doing believing that this person was invested in this way?' Which is a fantastically strong humiliation in the best sense.
''It can make somebody very bitter and very hard and closed off, but I find it does the opposite to me.''
The actor - who co-founded the J/P Haitian Relief Organisation - believes being able to help the people of Haiti following the 2010 earthquake helped him recover from his heartbreak as he found it difficult to adjust to being a bachelor again.
He said: ''I don't have anything. My daughter's doing her thing, my son's with his mother. So I turned on the TV and there was this earthquake in Haiti.
''You had a country that had never experienced anything that related to comfort, and out of that you had great trauma - but also this great strength that, I think, we all benefited from.''
There's nothing particularly memorable about this frantic animated romp, which adapts the iconic phone-app game...
Angry Birds Movie is a screen adaptation from the popular game in which we follow...
While Sean Penn lends this thriller some political subtext, the fact remains that it's actually...
He's worked for the same company for years, and one day he is asked to...
One of those swoony American dramas that explores life in all its wondrousness, this film...
Walter Mitty is an exceptionally ordinary man who has never dared venture out into the...
Walter Mitty is an ordinary guy with an ordinary life; he wakes up, eats breakfast,...
This may be based on a true story, but the filmmakers never bother exploring the...
Mickey Cohen is a dangerous Mafia boss with power over the police and the people...
Cheyenne is a soft-spoken, retired rockstar still wearing make-up and hairspray whilst living in Dublin...
Watch the trailer for The Tree of LifeThe Tree Of Life is Terrance Malick's first...
This provocative, fascinating true story is told with so much righteous rage that the politics...
Trailer for What Just HappenedRobert De Niro leads an all0star cast in What Just Happened....