Nina Dobrev says friendship with ex Ian Somerhalder and wife Nikki Reed is 'not weird at all'

Raechal Shewfelt
·Editor, Yahoo Entertainment
Nina Dobrev, Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder in a February 2017. (Photo: Nina Dobrev <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BQOCMR2AK-D/?utm_source=ig_embed" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:via Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">via Instagram</a>)
Nina Dobrev, Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder in a February 2017. (Photo: Nina Dobrev via Instagram)

Nina Dobrev has long moved on from the days when she was dating Ian Somerhalder, her then co-star on The Vampire Diaries. Since the couple ended their three-year relationship in 2013, Dobrev has remained close to Somerhalder and even befriended his wife, Nikki Reed.

This blows some people’s minds, and Dobrev encountered one such person on Wednesday night’s episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. The question of whether hanging out with Somerhalder and Reed was “weird” came up during the call-in portion of the show.

The Fam actress was quick to answer: “I don’t think that’s weird at all. That’s great. Why can’t everyone be friends? I think that they have a beautiful baby. They are happy, and so am I. What’s bad about that? I don’t see any problem with that.”

Dobrev has addressed her relationship with Somerhalder and Reed in the past. The month after the Twilight actress and Somerhalder married in April 2015, Dobrev rejected the idea that she was anything less than ecstatic for the happy couple. She continued to work with the groom at the time.

“I’ve said this before, that we didn’t break up because anything bad happened or because there wasn’t love or friendship,” Dobrev told E! News. “I love him and the friendship is still strong and I think he’s great and I care about him. And that didn’t change. Yes, we’re professional and that’s fine. We were friends long before we dated and we still are now.”

In February 2017, she also shared a lengthy note detailing her problem with rumors that she and Reed were feuding.

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For the last few years we thought addressing any baseless rumors with silence was the best way. Besides, who wants to respond to made up stories about “friends backstabbing friends”, “cheating exes”, or “cast members exiting shows” on low-brow websites like hollywoodlife that are just perpetuating trends that preceded us. Yuck. I now see that silence was taken as an opportunity to fill in the blanks with even more falsities, and juicer stories, and we, yes WE, believe we have a moral responsibility to young girls to end that narrative, because at the end of all of this, those young girls are the ones who lose. Their passion and endless devotion for a tv show is being taken advantage of, replaced with feelings of anger through divisive techniques, & even worse, their minds are being shaped & molded as their view of themselves, other girls, & what those dynamics should look like are being formed. So here’s to putting an end to all those fake stories of on set jealousy, betrayal, made-up-friendships lost & women hating women. Because at the end of the day, that’s what this is about: teaching girls that you have to hate other girls only breeds a generation of women who believe you have to hate other women. And that’s what these magazines, websites and blogs don’t understand. That is the harmful unintended consequence of their bullshit stories and we have a moral responsibility to fix that. Let’s turn this page together, as we all walk into the next chapter peacefully. And finally, let’s use this as an example of how important it is to stop this trend of writing horrible headlines about women, painting us as bitter, angry, insecure, heartbroken, childless, feuding, backstabbing monsters because whether we want to admit it or not, it changes the way all women view themselves. And shame on these websites for now targeting an even younger demographic, instilling this at an earlier age when girls are even more susceptible, more vulnerable and more malleable. When we write these headlines we teach hate. I’ve seen it firsthand. Let’s shift what we put into the universe starting now, & hopefully we will start to see a shift in the way we treat each other & view ourselves?

A post shared by Nikki Reed (@nikkireed) on Feb 7, 2017 at 10:51am PST

Apparently, Dobrev wants to keep the drama on the screen.


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