Is Charlize Theron dating again after her split from Alex Dimitrijevic? Relationships and recent revelations explored

Charlize Theron's last public relationship was with model Alex Dimitrijevic. Rumors of the two dating sparked in May 2023. However, a little over a year later, the couple called it quits in November 2024. Neither Theron nor Dimitrijevic has decided to speak up or reveal the reasons for their breakup to the public. Charlize did open up about signing up for the exclusive dating app Raya, but was not impressed with her options.

During a recent podcast interview with Alex Cooper on Call Her Daddy, Charlize Theron got candid about her recent bedroom encounter. When Cooper asked Theron if she had any s*x tips or advice to give, after they discussed dating in today's world, Theron said:

"I almost choked. I am the last person to ask... I'm sounding very cocky here, but I think it's because I found this freedom in my forties where I'm like, 'Oh my god,' so I just want to say this in perspective. I've probably had three one-night stands in my entire life, but I did just recently f**k a 26-year-old and it was really f**king amazing and I've never done that and I was like, 'Oh, this is great okay.'"

Cooper responded:

"Let me just say that 26-year-old is the luckiest f**king man walking on this god damn planet... He's walking different today knowing."

To which Charlize replied:

"He is for sure is not, but thank you."

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Who has Charlize Theron dated before Alex Dimitrijevic?

Before Charlize Theron met Alex Dimitrijevic in 2023, she dated a few other A-listers in the industry. Have a look at Charlize Theron's dating history.

When Theron just started in Hollywood in the 90s, she was romantically linked to The Long Kiss Goodnight actor, Craig Baer. They started dating in 1995, and this is what Theron had to say about her relationship with the actor:

"I'm the luckiest girl in the world, because Craig is incredibly supportive and makes me feel really safe and protected."

Charlize and Craig dated for about two years before they went their separate ways.

After the two split, the Snow White and the Huntsman actress started seeing the Third Blind Eye's lead singer and guitarist, Stephan Douglas Jenkins. They supposedly met in Hawaii, where Stephan's band was performing. Theron and Jenkins went official at the BMI Pop Awards in 1998, but broke up two years later.

The Dark Places actress met her new beau, Stuart Townsend, on the set of the 2002 thriller film Trapped. According to the Irish actor, he was "smitten" with Theron. In an interview with Irish America in 2004, he said:

"She just looked like a million dollars. I went, 'Whoa! Who is this girl?' It was funny because I guess there had been so much going on at the reading I hadn't really taken stock of her... When she glams up it's ridiculous. … I was just smitten after that."

The pair tried to make it work by doing long-distance and living in each other's countries for a while. They even wore wedding bands, referred to each other as husband and wife, but never officially or legally got married. Towards the end of 2009, Townsend and Theron decided to break up.

Another A-lister Charlize Theron dated was All the King's Men actor Sean Penn. The two were romantically linked in December 2013, and there were rumors that they got engaged, but it was brushed off when the two actors announced their breakup just two years after dating in 2015.

Charlize also cleared the rumors about her "almost" engagement to Penn. During an interview in 202, she told Howard Stern:

"I did not 'almost get married to Sean', that's such bullsh*t... No, we dated, that was literally all we did, we dated. It was a relationship, for sure. We were definitely exclusive, but it was for barely a year."

Two years after her split with Sean Penn, there were rumors that she was dating Canadian fashion model Gabriel Aubry. The actress shut down the speculation, saying that both she and Aubry had children who were in the same school. But in 2022, an exclusive insider source revealed to Us:

"Charlize has been hooking up with Gabriel Aubry... They're very casual and enjoying each other."

It was after Aubry that she met her Alex Dimitrijevic, the last publicly known relationship.

Theron is the mother of two adopted children. Her first child, Jackson Theron, was adopted in 2012, right before she filmed Mad Max: Fury Road. In 2015, Theron adopted another daughter named August Theron. Jackson is currently 12 years old, and August is 9.

In 2020, during an interview on Diane vön Furstenberg's podcast InCharge, Theron revealed that her younger daughter told her she needed a boyfriend. To this, Charlize responded:

"I said, 'Actually, I don't. Right now, I feel really good,' and she's like, 'But, you know what, Mom? ... You need a boyfriend, you need a relationship,' And I was like, 'I am in a relationship. I'm in a relationship with myself right now.'"

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Charlize Theron's s*x tips and advice for women

Charlize Theron did answer Alex Cooper's question on Call Her Daddy regarding s*x tips. Theron is a firm believer that women should prioritize their pleasure in bed and said:

"Women who come across as confident, women who come across as outspoken, ones that wouldn't speak up for themselves tend to also be in bed, people who want to please males. Like, and I have found this in my experiences with talking to other women about this. Isn't it strange? We should be the ones that are like, 'F**k you. I'm gonna have an org*sm.'

She continued:

"So my advice would be this. Don't f**king do that for two reasons. You're gonna have better orgasms and guess what? Your man's gonna like that... Practice helps. You have to practice, and then you'll figure it out. In a safe way, please."

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While Charlize Theron has not exclusively mentioned the 26-year-old's name or identity, she is keeping her romantic life away from the public eye. But the 49-year-old actress is enjoying her newfound freedom.