Liberty Ross: ‘I don’t like being trapped or… like I’m not able to move forward’

Back in September, during New York Fashion Week, Liberty Ross made her triumphant return to runway work just a month and a half after her husband was publicly caught Mini-Cooper-ing Kristen Stewart. Liberty walked the runway for Alexander Wang, a designer she considers a friend. Liberty was actually a genuine, high-fashion model not too long ago. She was on the covers of fashion magazines, she did runway work for top-tier designers, and she still has many friends in the fashion industry. She also has a blog for Vogue UK online too.

Anyway, Alexander Wang organized some kind of “confessional” video interview with Liberty while she was working with him for NYFW. I’m including the video below – Liberty actually discusses what’s going on with her life, and she makes some references to her marriage being over and all of that.

In case you can’t see it, you should be kind of thankful because Liberty’s voice is rather annoying. She says some words in a super-British accent and others in a weird California accent. Her voice is bizarre. Anyway, in the relevant part Liberty says:

“We’re all on journeys, we’re all given lessons at certain times in our lives, sometimes when things seem really bad, you have to be able to see the good and learn from it and move forward as graciously as possible. I don’t like being trapped or feeling like I’m not able to move forward. I think this year was the end of some things and the beginning of something else. Beginnings and endings are always really exciting.”

Well, I guess that gives you some insight into what she was thinking less than two months out from her husband’s affair. I think she sounds pretty decent – she’s not attacking Rupert or anything, she just sounds like she’s ready to put her marriage in the past. Except not really, because last week, there were photos of Liberty and Rupert Sanders leaving a marriage counseling session in Beverly Hills. TMZ is still claiming that their sources say that Liberty does want to save the marriage, although she has seen a divorce lawyer. Maybe she’s waiting until the end of the year. Like Robert Pattinson. Cough.

Oh, yeah, and apparently she had a night out with an ex-boyfriend in London a month ago too – these are the photos!

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News, WENN.

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  1. Riana says:

    Relationships just are not that black and white, even in Hollywood.

    As a woman and a mother you have to evaluate what the best decision is total. You’re no longer a single girl who can make a clean break and not give a damn, you have to think about your kids and their sense of stability. Whether the indiscretion is something that can be worked through (via counseling) or not. A shitty husband does not a shitty Father make and no, contrary to popular opinion once a cheater does not mean always a cheater.

    Whatever decision she makes I just wish her and the kids luck, that is one huge elephant in the room and God only knows how much they know about what Daddy did.

    • Jayna says:

      But I remember seeing an interview by of before the cheating scandal about how leaving England and living in LA is isolating. Her husband is always gone off on location and she is home with the kids. She misses her career but loves raising her kids. She really misses London and her friends.

      So fast toward to him cheating. Is all that she gave up for him now worth it? Absentee husband, raising kids in America where she doesn’t feel at home, but is here for him and his career?

      • Riana says:

        Who knows. If they are in counseling and seeing a good therapist I’m sure that’s one of the things she’s going to bring up.

        I just don’t think its cut and dry as – bye, let’s go kids.

        I’m sure her children are enrolled in school somewhere and likely just starting to feel comfortable. Its a tough haul to pack them up like luggage and bring them back to London, especially under these conditions.

        She could very well still divorce him, but I think its unrealistic to expect it to be instantaneous.

    • G says:

      Good grief. This is so over. Therapy helps families move on, too.

    • Ann says:

      I’ve never understood why women claim the “THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN” pretext when staying with cheating men. Because your husbands clearly DIDN’T care about the stability in “the children’s” lives. So you’re rewarding them by “holding the family together” when they clearly had no qualms about abandoning you and your children. And, yeah, staying with a cheating man isn’t worth it. Never understood why women stay loyal to disloyal men.

      • Jess says:

        It’s an excuse that women use to justify their decision to stay with their dirty rotten husbands, that’s all. Having two miserable unhappy parents doesn’t make happy kids. I bet if you asked the kids, deep down, they’d want both of their parents to be happy.

      • Riana says:

        I just don’t think life is a soap opera. There’s no easy clean break or triumph because you divorced him. You think about your kids and their physical and emotional support. Divorce can be great for a family or tear a family apart depending on how you go about it.

        If a relationship with the children’s Father can be salvaged then it should, whether you divorce or not.

      • Bluedog says:

        Jess, kids, especially younger kids, really don’t know or care if their parents are happy. Children are selfish creatures that must be taught to care, but no one is going to choose someone else’s happiness if it means they, themselves, suffer.

        People who insist that their kids would want them to be happy are just trying to justify their own selfish behavior. When you have kids, it’s your job to do what’s best for THEM, not the other way round. As for what’s best for these particular kids, I can’t say, but marriages shouldn’t be discarded easily.

  2. lulu1 says:

    She can’t help her accent – she explained that she grew up on different continents.
    It’s not an affectation like so many people

    • bluhare says:

      Agreed. I know someone who came over from England when she was about 20. She’s older now and her accent is a strange hybrid. Her “r”s especially.

    • Charlotte says:

      People can never pick my accent either being born in England but growing up on the other side of the world. I mostly get told I speak in a ‘posh’ voice, and combined with my use of ‘big words’, I get accused of affecting a persona. Meh.

  3. Sandy says:

    Has she had work done to her face? Her nose is very Ashley Greene like…

  4. Jill says:

    Good for her that she moved on. She is one classy woman. I can’t stand that morally corrupt prostitute Steward who destroyed her married and now is back with Patison like nothing happened.

    • Anonny says:

      That’s funny, because the more I see this woman(and I’m reminded how she was unknown pre-scandal), the more I believe the conspiracy theory that this was all one huge, planned publicity stunt designed to raise the awareness of an unknown actress, her semi-known director husband, two famous actors who didn’t need the promotion but whose relationship story arc was petering out and needed a jolt, and to promote not just one but two movies.

      Ask yourself: who did not benefit, publicity-wise, from this supposed tryst?

      • Macey says:

        Im with you completely. Just wait and you will see her on some reality show or something similar.

      • Huh says:

        I agree completely. I could care less about the canonization of poor St. Liberty. GMAFB.

      • TrustMeOnThis says:

        Who didn’t benefit? How about the freakin’ kids?!

        These conspiracy theories are insane. And she was not “unknown” – she had her own career which she set aside to raise her kids and support her no-good cheating husband in his career.

  5. Micki says:

    Her voice doesn’t irritate me.
    And I think she switched gears too and is playing the public now, following her own agenda.

    • eileen says:

      “Switched gears?” “Following her own Agenda?”
      Please tell me I’m reading this wrong?? What is with women tearing down every move a woman makes after her husband cheats on her? Its like you’re searching for a reason he cheated. Like: “look she is shady so he had his reasons….”
      He broke their vows and completely screwed her over in one of the most public cheating scandals recorded with the exception of Clinton. WHATEVER she does from this point on is her right and freedom thanks to her husband betraying her.
      Her “agenda” is just keeping her head above water and moving on with her life and if that happens doesn’t mean she’s manipulating media or public.

      • Micki says:

        Take your pills girl, take a break or take KitKat.

        I didn’t tear at her, I don’t know her but she seems like a woman with a plan for her future.Have I said it’s bad?

        I don’t know why you’re so up in the arms and I am sure I’ve never implied in any of my posts that Sanders had excuse as to cheat. Not that you care I suppose but there you are.

      • eileen says:

        Saying she is playing the public because she is moving on with her life and going back to work…where people are going to ask her questions (God forbid she answers)-says a lot. Just saying. A woman can’t win in circumstances like this. She is either moving on with a good head on her shoulders so she must be up to something or she’s upset and devestated so then you hear “get over it and move on!”
        Why can’t we let the girl be and let her go on with her life however she chooses without judging her words and actions? Rupert and Kirsten who brought this on her….judge away. They gave up their right for privacy when they chose to cheat. JMHO
        Oh and P.S. disagreeing with you doesn’t mean I’m on meds…or should be for that matter. I’m in the middle of a divorce, not from cheating but all the same. I can’t even fathom going through what I’m going through with my kids and the stress of him being a complete ass while women are on the sidelines commenting on my every move.

      • Micki says:

        @eileen:

        First: I am sorry that you’re in a middle divorce and will try to empathise.
        I am “in a middle of” a teething baby and Celebitchy is an hour of rest for me.

        In general I agree that Liberty has a right of privacy. But in reality the affair made a public figure out of her.
        People that don’t know her (like us) will judge her according to their personal experience. That defines your and mine positions.

        I don’t mean this as an offence but being cheated on (in her case) doesn’t automatically makes you all white.Each of us is 50 shades of gray and then some more. We don’t really KNOW Liberty.

        I see it as a common sense that she’d play the public. A lot is on a stake for her and her family. And she has to keep at bay all “women on the sidelines, commenting on her every step”. I guess that means acting and reacting in a certain way. For me it’s “agenda” and not negatively charged at that.

      • Violet says:

        Agreed. Liberty is clearly the wronged party, and deserves sympathy not judgment.

        Rupert screwed her over — quite literally and in public! — betraying her with someone Liberty considered a friend of the family.

        My heart goes out to her. It sounds like she bent over backwards to make him happy, even going so far as to move to overseas to support his career. Rupert first got involved with her when he was 25 and she was only 17, so he pretty much raised her up to be the exact wife he wanted, but Liberty is now in her 30s and I guess he likes ’em young.

    • roxy750 says:

      I agree

  6. Christine says:

    She annoys me. Her confessional video reminded me of Brad Pitt’s Chanel commercial.

  7. Just Jules says:

    I think she sounded classy, thoughtful, educated and inspiring. Cheating is something I don’t think I could handle – it would devastate me. She gave me hope, talking about new beginnings and being quite philosophical. I think she is admirable.

    • Chatcat says:

      Jules … I agree. We don’t know how strong we are until all we can do is be strong, so I can’t comment on if I could handle cheating, and because of her public life it was more then just cheating, it was a cheating scandal. She has handled it all with class, charm, strength and wit in the public. I am sure she has her private moments of hell by herself and with family & friends, but she has been amazing so far in the circus of Hollyweird and celeb media coverage.

      Oh and her voice doesn’t bother me so much, the worst female voice to me is Soledad O’Brien…my God she sounds like Minnie Mouse after a bad night out having smoked and drank too much. UGH.

  8. Shitler says:

    For all those who are always so quick to jump on the “Kate Upton’s so budget & downmarket & generic looking- not at all a high fashion model!! bandwagon, take a good look at this high fashion model do a side by side comparison. Who do you think is prettier? Yeah I thought so. I’m so bored by this scandal so no comments on anything else

  9. Jules says:

    Who cares? This was all made up anyways.

  10. Bowers says:

    I didn’t know who she was until her husband (also didn’t know who he was) sort of cheated on her. ??? And the other two aren’t really in love and never were.

  11. Annie says:

    Ha! I knew she’d start blabbing when BD promo began. I hope she sells an exclusive interview, gets her money, dumps the douchelord and exposes Kristen. Because I bet my house that Robert doesn’t know the whole story. She probably fed him the “We only made out” BS and his sorry ass bought it. Let’s be honest, a woman doesn’t give up on the father of her kids for a few kisses. She gave up her life in London to come to LA and now in perspective she probably understands why the sudden move to LA. Douchebag wanted to be close to Kristen. It’s not like he had jobs lined up in LA. And no foreign director HAS to move to LA.

    Staying together for the kids is not the answer. It’s damaging. Seeing your parents having issues, watching them fight and knowing they don’t love each other but they’re staying together FOR YOU gives a child a sense of guilt and frustration that they don’t deserve to be feeling. I would know. My parents separated when I was a teen and believe me, it was a gift from God. Watching them fight all my life was very traumatizing because their fights were nasty and he got scary angry and it broke my heart seeing my mom cry because of him. Ideally parents should love and respect each other, but if they don’t? MOVE ON.

    Trust me, Liberty knows the whole story and if they’re going to counsling while seeing lawyers, neither of them wearing their rings, you know what’s up. How do you think she feels seeing her marriage destroyed while Kristen flaunts that ROBSTEN IS UNBROKEN? That girl will get what is coming to her and I’ll be damn glad. She’s heartless.

    • TrustMeOnThis says:

      This site needs “like” buttons! Well said. My folks stayed together “for the kids” which made all of us (kids included) miserable for years. They eventually seem to have worked it out, but the cheating and the fighting and the hiding from the Sherriff so divorce papers could not be served… it took its toll. I don’t have kids but I would never stay in a loveless, severely broken relationship even if I did. It just isn’t worth it. It corrodes everything.

      • Annie says:

        And!! It affects the way you see your own relationships as an adult. I’ve alwAys had problems with that. I’m not very trusting with men. And not very patient either.

        I really prefer to be single, but that’s not good either. It gets lonely and frustrating. And my sister is repeating some patterns in her own marriage.

        Staying together for the kids it’s pretty much worse than a divorce. You’re living in a household watching resentment and anger all the time. Not healthy. And if it ruins you relationships later in life IT’S NOT FAIR!

  12. Izzy says:

    I just can’t understand how anyone can say that the whole cheating thing was a publicity stunt. I don’t see Liberty Ross ever agreeing to do that to her children, and believe me, they will suffer, over and over, for the public nature of this.

    For that same reason, I have a hard time believing that she set up the whole tipping off the magazine thing.

    And finally, why shouldn’t she say something publicly? She was asked to speak about her life, this is part of it, and she handled it with grace and class (I’m giving her a pass on the brief Snow Ho Twitter post, because she likely did that in the heat of the moment, and was certainly entitled to have that moment). If she had kept quiet, all the conspiracy theorists would claim it’s proof that she tipped the magazine. So she’s damned if she does, damned if she doesn’t.

  13. Amy says:

    Dear every woman in the top picture (but most especially the woman on the right), please kill your booties. With fire.

  14. iss says:

    liberty is being watch/followed by paparazzi wherever she goes… wow! haters wanted to make it appear that she is up to no good. poor liberty! she is not the one whose picture is published making it out with a married man. she is actually the victim. if she act gracious in this moment of crisis in her life, then it has something to do with the breeding of a classy woman… a picture of grace and strength in her most trying times.