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Open in new tab Twilight actress Kristen Stewart has found new love – with her personal assistant Alicia Cargile.
The star’s mum Jules Stewart has given her blessing to the relationship, which comes two years after Kristen, 25, split from long-term love Robert Pattinson, 29. Jules, 55, told the Sunday Mirror she has met Alicia and that the couple are very happy together. She added: “What’s not to be accepting about her now having a girlfriend? She’s happy.
“She’s my daughter, I’m just her mom so she knows I would accept her choices. “I’ve met Kristen’s new girlfriend, I like her. What’s not to accept? She’s a lovely girl.” Jules, who also has a Hollywood career as a script supervisor, added: “I feel like people need to be free to love whoever they want. I accept my daughter loves women and men. It’s OK to be who you are in my world. We all choose our friends so we should be free to choose our lovers. “People are good to do whatever they like as long as they’re not hurting people or breaking the law. “I have gay friends, family members, I’m accepting of people, we are all free to choose who we want to love.
Martial arts nut Kristen’s relationship with Twilight co-star R-Patz ended after she was seen kissing married Rupert Sanders, 44, who directed her in Snow White and the Huntsman. Since then she has kept her love life under wraps. Meanwhile Pattinson is now said to be engaged to singer FKA twigs, 27 – and it was claimed this week he will even invite Kristen to his wedding.
Jules said of Kristen’s new love: “They were a great couple, but she’s 25 years old and I’d like to see her have a lot more life experience before she chooses someone to settle down with. “I’m very sad that Kristen and Robert didn’t have a chance to be alone together, they had to have the whole world with them and all the public stuff ruined everything, life became overwhelming. “But Kristen has learnt to handle her emotions and deal with her problems through the martial arts.”
Kristen has previously talked of her increasingly close relationship with Alicia as speculation grew. Asked about it by US chat show host Conan O’Brien in April, she said: “There’s so much isolation and protection that has to happen. So then you end up, kind of like, hiring a buddy, a confidante, like, somebody to organise your schedule, but in addition to that, like kind of like, live with you essentially. “So yeah, it’s definitely more complicated than, ‘Go buy me tampons because I’m embarrassed to do it myself ’.” It certainly sounds easier than dating one of the world’s biggest teen idols.
R-Patz’s new love FKA twigs recently told of the abuse hurled at her since she began dating the British actor. The singer-songwriter said messages sent to her online have even included racist slurs – but she claimed the relationship is worth putting up with the online onslaught. She said: “It’s really hard – I can’t begin to explain how awful it is.
“It makes you want to just stop everything sometimes. It makes you want to smash your face into the mirror. “It’s relentless. There’s no amount of songs I can sing or dances I can dance that will prove to them I’m not a monkey. “But I’m so happy. I didn’t see my life going this way at all, but it’s worth it.
Kristen is currently working on several film projects, including one with Woody Allen, while Robert is starting work on epic adventure The Lost City of Z, based on the life of British explorer Percy Fawcett. Yet despite Kristen’s wealth and success, mum Jules admitted she still worries about her daughter’s career.
Jules, who directed the 2012 film K-11, tackling sex discrimination, and is currently involved in an art installation in support of The Wolf Charity, said: “I think it’s great that Kristen has so much money because you worry about how your children are going to survive. “Kristen is a multi-millionairess but I always worry. I knew she’d be successful – and it makes me giggle just how successful she is.
“No one ever thought she’d be off the charts like this. We all knew she was unique and had ‘it’, she’s always been very intelligent, intuitive and observant so she’s the perfect actress.” And she denied claims Kristen is “miserable and angry”, insisting: “She’s not unhappy at all. She’s thrilled to death that she’s working, she’s still friends with her ex-boyfriend and she’s moving forward. “There is nothing I can do about her relationships – in the end you just hope she’s happy.”