As Kristen Stewart apologised for her affair with film director Rupert Sanders, it emerged today that his wronged wife had heaped praise on the “transfixing” young star.
Stewart, 22, delivered a grovelling public apology last night to her Twilight co-star and boyfriend Robert Pattinson, 26, for her fling with Sanders, 41.
The pair grew close after Stewart starred in Sanders's film, Snow White and the Huntsman.
Sanders's wife, British Vogue model Liberty Ross, 33, played Stewart's mother in the movie.
At the London premiere in May, Ross told Celebuzz: "[Kristen] was my number one choice. I think there is no better Snow White in my opinion. She is great.
"I mean, I've never watched a Twilight movie, so I don't really know, but I loved her in Sean Penn's film [Into The Wild] just for that moment that she's in it.
"Ever since then — she's got something very transfixing about her. We needed a modern, edgy, cool girl."
Sanders and Ross have two children together.
An American magazine, US Weekly, reported this week that Sanders and Stewart had been locked in a "marathon make-out session" in a car in Los Angeles and featured a snatched picture of the pair embracing on its cover.
Stewart broke her silence last night to say in a statement: "I'm deeply sorry for the hurt and embarrassment I've caused to those close to me and everyone this has affected.
"This momentary indiscretion has jeopardised the most important thing in my life, the person I love and respect the most, Rob. I love him, I love him, I'm so sorry."
She and Pattinson have been together for three years and have a £4 million home in Los Angeles.
Sanders said last night: "I am utterly distraught about the pain I have caused my family. I am praying that we can get through this together."
Pattinson, who grew up in London, has rarely spoken publicly about his relationship with Stewart and for a long time they denied they were a couple.
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At the weekend they appeared happy together as they promoted the last film of the Twilight franchise, Breaking Dawn: Part 2, in San Diego.
Pattinson recently told Vanity Fair that he gives "100 per cent" to a relationship, adding: "There's a thing I've never got . . . why do people cheat?
"I'm not the casual-affair kind of guy. If I choose to be with someone it's because I really want it."
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