--- title: Emma Watson Shuts Down Questions About Her Dating Life description: Emma Watson hosted a live Q and A on Twitter on Friday, and got real about how she feels about people asking about her relationships. canonical: https://time.com/4068503/emma-watson-twitter-qa-relationship-question/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-09T20:17:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:02.219Z og:title: Emma Watson Just Shut Down Questions About Her Personal Life og:description: "I have never spoken about my personal relationships" og:url: https://time.com/4068503/emma-watson-twitter-qa-relationship-question/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Emma Watson Just Shut Down Questions About Her Personal Life twitter:description: "I have never spoken about my personal relationships" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Emma Watson Just Shut Down a Question About Her Personal Life > Sponsored content. 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Emma Watson -He For She- Speech_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 9, 2015 8:17 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 9, 2015 8:17 PM UTC Emma Watson hosted a live [Twitter](https://twitter.com/EmWatson) [Q&A](https://twitter.com/hashtag/askemma?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Ehashtag) on Friday, and got real about how she feels about people asking about her relationships. > [](https://twitter.com/EmWatson/status/651858701796552704) The _Regression_ actress responded to a tweet in which a [user](https://twitter.com/iamemmawallace) (who has since locked their account) referenced an interview where Watson supposedly spoke about a recent breakup. “I have never spoken about my personal relationships,” Watson wrote. > [](https://twitter.com/EmWatson/status/652532705133854720) > [](https://twitter.com/EmWatson/status/652532773937242112) The interview referenced could be from a [September Vogue UK story](http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2015/08/01/emma-watson-british-vogue-cover-september-issue) that several outlets picked up. In the piece, Watson said she went on a silent retreat to clear her head before the relationship ended, [People](http://www.people.com/article/emma-watson-silence-vow-matt-janney-split) reported. However, the 25-year-old denied this during her Q&A session online. “The week-long meditation course I took was part of my yoga teaching certification happened months before and was unrelated,” she tweeted. > [](https://twitter.com/EmWatson/status/652533014044381184) > [](https://twitter.com/EmWatson/status/652533059753918464) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4068503/emma-watson-twitter-qa-relationship-question/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4068503/emma-watson-twitter-qa-relationship-question/"},"headline":"Emma Watson Just Shut Down a Question About Her Personal Life","datePublished":"2015-10-09T20:17:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:02.219Z","description":"\"I have never spoken about my personal relationships\"","url":"https://time.com/4068503/emma-watson-twitter-qa-relationship-question/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Social Media","celebrities","Dating","twitter","Love & Relationships","Emma Watson","actresses"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4068503/emma-watson-twitter-qa-relationship-question/","name":"Emma Watson Just Shut Down a Question About Her Personal Life"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Emma Watson - He For She - Speech","description":"Emma Watson -He For She- Speech","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/0clamGjK/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-09-22T11:27:02.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/0clamGjK.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4068503/emma-watson-twitter-qa-relationship-question/","duration":"PT23S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4068503/emma-watson-twitter-qa-relationship-question/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```