When Exes Reunite: Emma Roberts and Evan Peters Share the Stage Again

Seven years is a long time to avoid someone, especially when you work in the same industry. But that’s what made Tuesday’s moment at the Disney upfront presentation genuinely noteworthy: Emma Roberts and Evan Peters, who dated on and off from 2012 to 2019, took the stage together to promote the upcoming 13th season of American Horror Story—a show where both have been recurring fixtures across multiple seasons.

It’s the kind of professional milestone that feels both ordinary and loaded. Roberts, 35, and Peters, 39, have shared screen time in AHS before, but appearing together at a major industry event sends a different signal. It suggests that whatever messiness defined the end of their relationship—and there was messiness, including a 2013 domestic violence incident that resulted in Roberts’arrest (charges were later dropped, with both reps calling it“an unfortunate incident and misunderstanding”)—has genuinely been put to rest.

The timeline tells its own story. They got engaged in 2014, called it quits in 2019, and according to a source at the time,“weren’t heading for a bad breakup.”Roberts moved on with actor Garrett Hedlund, welcomed son Rhodes in 2020, and split from Hedlund in 2022. By 2024, she was engaged to Cody John. Peters, meanwhile, has been linked to others in the years since. Two people moving forward, living separate lives, building new chapters—and then they show up at work together like colleagues should.

That’s maturity. That’s professionalism. That’s also the kind of thing that wouldn’t have been possible if the hurt hadn’t genuinely healed. Whether you believe exes can be friends or think it’s all just polite surface-level stuff, there’s something quietly powerful about two people who once planned a future together being able to stand on the same stage and do their job. It doesn’t erase what happened. It just means they’ve both found ways to move on, and that’s worth acknowledging.