Sean Penn & Charlize Theron Face Each Other For First Time After Awkward Breakup
May 22 2016, Updated 4:50 p.m. ET
After making an effort to avoid each other at the Cannes Film Festival, ex-lovers Sean Penn and Charlize Theron finally acknowledged each other's existence during an icy kiss this week.
Theron gave Penn a peck on the cheek as they left the screening for The Last Face on May 20.
Although it was far from a warm and fuzzy reunion, it was a giant leap from where they were at the start of the festival.
As RadarOnline.com reported, the actors found themselves at the same event earlier this week.
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But rather than immediately acknowledging the awkwardness, Penn and Theron completely avoided each other!
"There was always someone in between them – at least one person," a source told RadarOnline. "It was like they were on two separate orbits."
6. Their tension stems from a bad breakup last summer.
Theron was accused of "ghosting" Penn — a practice whereby one party breaks up with another by simply never speaking to them again.
Theron has denied ghosting Penn. “When you leave a relationship there has to be some f**king crazy story or some crazy drama," she said. "And the f**king ghosting thing, like literally, I still don’t even know what it is. It’s just its own beast.”
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