Camila Morrone is not usually one to unpack her love life in public, but Leonardo DiCaprio’s former partner has broken that pattern with a rare, clear-eyed reflection on what it means to date under a global microscope. Her new comments about love, fame and moving on pull back the curtain on a relationship that was endlessly dissected from the outside, and almost never defined in her own words.
Instead of rehashing old drama, Morrone uses the moment to sketch out how she sees romance now: something that should feel protective, confidence boosting and, ideally, a lot more normal than the headlines that once followed her every move.
The “ruthless” spotlight and redefining love on her own terms
Morrone’s latest remarks land with extra weight because they come after years of being framed as “Leonardo DiCaprio’s girlfriend” first and an actor second. She has described the attention around that past romance as a “ruthless” kind of scrutiny, the sort that turns private milestones into public sport and leaves little room for nuance. In talking about that period now, she points to the way people online felt entitled to predict the end of the relationship and mock the age gap, echoing how, during their time together, trolls confidently told her the romance with Leo would be over by a certain birthday.
Her new comments are not a tell-all, they are a reset. Morrone notes that when someone dates a star with a massive following, the less famous partner can quickly become a supporting character in their own life, a dynamic that has also been observed around Leonardo’s current relationship with model Vittoria Ceretti, where insiders say that “as soon as you are in a relationship with someone who has a larger following than you, you become ‘girlfriend of’” and that real love is the kind that “protects and gives confidence,” a sentiment linked to Jan. In her own case, Morrone is now spelling out that she wants relationships where that protection and confidence are felt by both people, not just projected onto the more famous one.
From age-gap fixation to a more grounded view of romance
Long before the breakup, Morrone had already pushed back on the obsession with the 23 year age difference between her and DiCaprio, saying she hoped to be recognized for her work rather than reduced to a number. She acknowledged that people were always going to have opinions but made it clear she believed everyone should be free to date who they want, a stance she voiced while promoting her film “Mickey and the Bear” and addressing the age gap. That early insistence on autonomy now reads like a preview of the boundaries she is drawing in her latest reflections.
Her new comments also underline how relentless curiosity about her private life has been. She notes that when someone is an actor, people will always find something to latch onto, and that perhaps when a project connects with audiences, they become even more curious about the person behind it, a point she makes while discussing how fans still ask about her past romance and how when she is promoting new work, the questions often circle back to Leonardo. In that context, her decision to speak now feels less like nostalgia and more like an attempt to close the loop on a storyline she never fully authored.
Family influences, new love and a life beyond “Leo’s ex”
Part of what makes Morrone’s new perspective on love so textured is the way she talks about the people who helped shape it. She has given ultra rare details about having Al Pacino as a parental figure, explaining that “he is technically not my stepfather, but he was my mom’s partner for a very long time” and that she felt she was in the presence of someone like “the Messi of my industry” when she watched him work, describing how that experience set a high bar for craft and seriousness in her own career and personal life, as she shared while reflecting on Camila Morrone Gives rare details about having Al Pacino as a parental figure. In the same breath, she has described the industry as “ruthless,” a word she uses again when looking back at how her relationship with DiCaprio was picked apart, a description that appears in coverage of her past romance.
That sense of toughness has carried into her dating life after Leo. She has openly enjoyed playing with power dynamics on screen, joking that she “loves it that men are eating out of the palm of my hand” when she teases scenes from “The Night Manager” season 2 and describes how “they sit there, and they” react to her character’s moves, a playful comment that still hints at a woman who is no longer interested in being the passive half of a celebrity couple, as she put it while saying she loves it when men are metaphorically at her feet. Off screen, she has quietly moved on with music video director Cole Bennett, with the 27 year old actress and model confirming the romance with the 29 year old on a Friday stroll, a pairing that some observers framed as the “ultimate revenge” on the old “25 rule” after noting that Camila and Leo split sometime after she turned 25 and that she had been 23 years younger than Leonardo.
Her love life has not exactly gone underground, but it has shifted into a different gear. She has been photographed debuting a new boyfriend, with reports noting that Leonardo’s ex girlfriend Camila Morrone debuted her new partner after the relationship with DiCaprio that ended in 2022, a reminder that the “Leo’s ex” tag still trails her even when the story is about someone else, as seen when coverage described how Ex Girlfriend Camila. At the same time, she has been praised for choosing a self made creative partner, with one profile noting that “if you are going to move on from Leo, a self made creative mogul is a solid start” and pointing out that her new relationship has sparked fresh conversations about couples with significant age differences, a narrative that now centers on her choices rather than just his, as highlighted in a piece about Let her move on from Leo. All of it adds up to a woman who has learned to navigate a “ruthless” spotlight on her own terms, and who is finally getting to define what love looks like without a global audience trying to write the script for her.
Even the way her comments are being framed now shows how hard it is to separate her from that past chapter. Coverage of her rare remarks about romance still circles back to Leonardo, with pieces noting that Leonardo’s ex Camila Morrone makes a rare comment about their previous relationship and quoting her reflections on how she would rather be recognized for her work than for who she dated, a theme that runs through the profile by Ryan Hudgins that focuses on how Ex Camila Morrone. Another account of her remarks, filed by Deirdre Durkan Simonds as a US associate showbiz reporter, underscores how she has been shaped by her mother Lucila Solá’s long relationship with Pacino from 2008 to 2018 and how that family history, combined with the “ruthless” nature of the industry, has informed her current boundaries, a context that surfaces in the piece By DEIRDRE DURKAN, SIMONDS, ASSOCIATE, SHOWBUSI. For Morrone, speaking out now is less about revisiting an old romance and more about finally getting to narrate her own story of love, work and everything that came after Leo.
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