Lost’s Dominic Monaghan Calls Evangeline Lilly Split His Only Heartbreak: ‘Devastating’
usmagazine.comThe way they were. Dominic Monaghan is reflecting on his past relationship with his former Lost costar Evangeline Lilly.“I think I’ve only really got my heart broken once in my life,” the Moonhaven actor, 45, recalled on Anna Faris’ podcast “Unqualified” on Wednesday, August 31. “I was dating an actress on Lost called Evangeline Lilly, who, you know, has gone on to have a name all of her own.
And yeah, you know, I don’t really know how she would explain the narrative, but from my point of view, it was probably the first time in my life that I was just kind of all in.”Though he said he was a committed boyfriend to Lilly, 43, whom he dated from 2003 to 2007, he admitted to having “an extraordinary amount of growing to do in terms of handling my substances and handling my choices.”The Lord of the Rings actor noted that due to his British upbringing, it wasn’t uncommon for someone to begin drinking alcohol as a teenager.“And that’s not like a glass of wine or a pint of beer.
That’s like getting absolutely wankered on a Friday and Saturday night and maybe a Sunday afternoon,” he explained. “I thought that was normal.
And I had a huge amount of growing to do in terms of what was normal and what wasn’t normal.”The former pair met on the set of the sci-fi ABC series, which ran for six seasons from 2004 to 2010.
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