Chris Martin fell in love with Dakota Johnson at first sight, shortly after breaking up with Gwyneth Paltrow. His ex-wife loves the Coldplay leader’s new partner. Together with their children, Apple and Moses, and their second husband, Brad Falchuk, they create a happy patchwork family.
Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow were considered a perfect couple. Their announced breakup in 2014 shocked fans. The spouses explained that they had been making this decision for a long time and that they were divorcing as friends. – We have a common past and two wonderful children, so we will never stop being a family – said the actress in interviews. Moreover, their family soon grew larger. In 2018, she was joined by screenwriter Brad Falchuk, Paltrow’s new husband, and a year earlier, Dakota Johnson, Martin’s girlfriend and star of “50 Shades of Grey”. The relationship between the Coldplay leader and a Hollywood star caused a sensation.
First date
They met a few months after Martin’s official breakup with Paltrow. A mutual friend introduced them. Apparently, there was an immediate spark between the then 41-year-old Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson, who was 13 years younger than her. For the first weeks, they met in secret, cleverly avoiding the paparazzi. They chose restaurants that were not very crowded, and came on dates dressed so casually that it was difficult to recognize them as stars. Finally managed to catch them together. Someone reported to People magazine that Johnson and Martin went out for sushi together. Later, whenever Martin appeared somewhere, they immediately looked for Johnson. The actress was spotted at a Coldplay concert, and then several more times while walking on the beach in Malibu near Martin’s villa. In early 2018, they were seen together more and more often. The media speculated whether it was friendship or love, and subsequent “close friends” of the couple sold information about them to the tabloids. “They had dinner together at a diner in Los Angeles,” People said. “They flirted all the time, showed great affection for each other, and it was obvious that they felt very comfortable in each other’s company.” “It’s definitely something serious, because they don’t part for a moment,” wrote Hollywood Life. Internet portals, in turn, assured that Martin and Johnson were seriously thinking about marriage.
First official appearance
For the first time, Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin officially appeared together only in January 2018. They came to the Stella McCartney show in Los Angeles. It is true that they entered the event separately, through the back door, but during the show they sat next to each other and later held hands and embraced. There was no doubt that they were in love with each other.
They slowly stopped hiding. They drove to restaurants in one car and walked together on the beach, often accompanied by their dog Zepellin. They also came to Ellen DeGeneres’ 60th birthday. Paltrow and Falchuk also hosted them. Apparently, it was then that Martin officially introduced his new love to his ex-wife.
At this stage, the media was no longer satisfied with blurry photos of Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson taken secretly by paparazzi. So they started asking the star’s famous parents, actors Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, about the relationship. Don didn’t want to say much, but Melanie told journalists that she really liked Dakota’s new boyfriend. – But my daughter wants this relationship to remain private. And I respect her decision, she added, cutting off further discussion.
Johnson and Martin attended a Radiohead concert a few months later. They hugged and kissed freely and even posed for selfies with a few fans. They were accompanied that evening by another famous couple, Aaron Paul and his wife Lauren Parsekian. Shortly afterwards, information leaked to the media that Dakota Johnson had moved into Martin’s house in Malibu. “The city it-girl chose a quiet life,” it was written. And indeed, the actress, previously residing in Beverly Hills or New York, gave up the glamor in favor of sunrises and sunsets on the beach in the company of her beloved.
In the fall of 2018, rumors began that Dakota Johnson was pregnant. When she and Chris Martin organized a party at the villa and decorated the entrance with blue and pink balloons, it was believed to be a gender reaveal party. Meanwhile, it turned out that the decorations on the door were hung on the occasion of Johnson’s birthday on October 4. Later, on the Ellen Degeneres show, the star commented on the confusion: “As for my alleged pregnancy, yes, I have a lot of new ideas in me, but not a baby,” she joked. And since she was wearing a tight outfit, the rumors immediately stopped. The information that the couple is expecting a child was also officially denied by the actress’ manager.
However, the tabloids abhor a vacuum, so when they dropped the topic of pregnancy, they wrote about the couple’s engagement. A ring appeared on the actress’s left hand. The star’s spokesman once again put an end to the speculations. Additionally, a “friend” of the couple told one of the weekly magazines that Martin is not ready to propose yet. – His ex-wife got married in September. So he wants to wait a while so as not to introduce more stressful changes into the lives of their common children, he said. – Because Chris is a great dad, and the well-being of his daughter Apple and son Moses is the most important to him.
