Emma Roberts Taking It Slow With Garret Hedlund Following Split With Evan Peters

After being engaged for nearly six years, Emma Roberts and Evan Peters have called it quits for good. With Roberts’ split from her longtime boyfriend still fresh, the actress has found a way to get over the breakup — she’s now dating “Triple Frontier” star Garret Hedlund.

Multiple sources have confirmed that Roberts and Peters had already broken off their engagement and that Roberts is now dating Hedlund. “Emma and Evan were heading for a split and now are just friends,” a source revealed. “Evan has moved out. It wasn’t a bad breakup,” the source added.

The ex-couple decided to split shortly after Valentine’s Day, years after trying to make things work. According to the source, the split was a long time coming. Roberts and Peters dealt with the ups and downs of their relationship together and spent years trying to make it work. Unfortunately, both of them knew their relationship was already on its last legs. But if there’s one good thing about their split, it’s the fact that things ended well for them — it was an amicable breakup, although they’re taking space from each other right now.

Luckily for Roberts, the actress was quick to find new love in Hedlund, who has been her friend for a while now. Earlier this week, an eyewitness reported spotting Roberts and Hedlund hanging out in the Silverlake neighborhood in Los Angeles, holding hands. After going on a few casual dates and exploring their friendship, things started to turn romantic between the two.

While Roberts and Hedlund have already gone on a few casual dates since February and are already romantically involved, fans cannot expect a full-fledged relationship anytime soon. Roberts does not want to rush into things and wants to see how things pan out between them before she commits. What they have right now is not anything serious yet, so fans have no reason to freak out. “Garrett and Emma have been friends, but this is new, casual, and just a couple of weeks old,” the source said.

Meanwhile, Roberts and Peters started dating in 2012 after filming “Adult World.” A year after they became an item, the ex-couple hit a rough patch following a physical altercation that had left Evans with a bloody nose. They got engaged in late 2013 but took months-long breaks between 2015 and 2016.