Lewis Hamilton, 37, was in a relationship with Nicole Scherzinger, 44, for around seven years after meeting at the MTV EMAs in 2007.The Mercedes F1 driver has spoken out in a new interview about what he learned from the very public relationship and how he has since been learning to be "happy on my own".The pair's relationship seemed to be going from strength to strength with it even being rumoured they were engaged in 2014, before Lewis shut down these claims.Since the end of the public relationship in 2015, Lewis has kept his personal life very private and has not publicly dated anyone else.Discussing his private life in a new interview, the F1 driver revealed: "I learned the hard way, I learned the hard way."I haven’t talked about it much.
I’m really just super focused on work."I’ve realized that I can’t do two things or three things at once, I’ve got to focus on one.He continued: "I really wanted to go through a growth process of getting myself to a point where I’m happy on my own, comfortable in my space."So that if I ever do meet someone, it’s an addition, rather than 'I need you in my life'," he concluded to Vanity Fair.Lewis has not spoken much about the reasoning for the demise of the relationship, but he did speak briefly to reporters at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in 2019.The racing driver explained why he felt it to be so hard to settle down in a relationship over the years.He said: “I think it’s probably similar to most sportsmen and women really.“It may be slightly different in that we are travelling as much as we are, and you are just away for crazy amounts of time, so that’s probably an additional weight load that makes it really, really tough to hold down a good relationship.”Following his breakup from.
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