Oh, Twihard Dramz. Just the way to start a Monday… checking out what’s going on with The Great Twihard Meltdown of 2012. It feels like it’s been going on for weeks and weeks, but that’s only because there was so much happening in those first few days. Anyway, as we discussed yesterday, Rupert Sanders’ wife, Liberty Ross, has a brother and that brother went to a UK tabloid to basically say that everybody knows that Rupert and Kristen were fooling around for months and months. Considering those were direct quotes from Leopold Ross, I took the interview as “Liberty is looking to jettison her husband and start anew, and probably return to England.” But not so much according to The Telegraph’s gossip guy, Mandrake:

Robert Pattinson was so upset by what his girlfriend, Kristen Stewart, described as her “momentary indiscretion” with the film director Rupert Sanders that he has reportedly left the house that he shares with his fellow Twilight star in Los Angeles.
Mandrake hears that Sanders’s wife, the model Liberty Ross has, though, been more forgiving.
“She is prepared to give Rupert a second chance,” claims one of Ross’s friends. “She accepts that it was just one of those silly flirtations.”
Sanders, 41, was photographed with the American actress, 22, whom he had directed in the film Snow White and the Huntsman. He had cast her as Snow White and, somewhat tactlessly, Ross, 33, as her mother.
His father, Michael Sanders, 76, a retired surgeon, said of Stewart: “This girl’s a pretty young thing and if you’ve been gadding around for five months, or what have you, you’re bound to get a bit friendly. This kind of thing gets blown out of all proportion.”

[From The Telegraph]
Considering that, hours after Us Weekly’s photos proved to be the real deal, The Telegraph was still vociferously claiming that they were Photoshopped, I’m not sure how much stock I put in this “source.” Basically, I’m choosing to believe Liberty’s brother in a tabloid interview rather than an unnamed source to The Telegraph. But… stranger things have happened if Liberty actually does forgive him.
What I really think is going to happen is that Rupert and Kristen are going to stick with their initial (coordinated!) strategy of claiming that this really was a “momentary indiscretion” because, you know, they only got caught once so that’s all they’ll cop to. Kristen’s former Welcome to the Rileys director, Giovanni Agnelli, defended her honor and tried out the whole “it was just biscuit-munching, not sex” argument:

Kristen Stewart admitted to cheating on Robert Pattinson with her Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders, but according to her Welcome to the Rileys director, Giovanni Agnelli, the two ‘did not have sex!’
Kristen, 22, has potentially destroyed her three-year relationship with 26-year-old Rob! While K-Stew has clearly upset her millions of fans, a former director of Kristen’s is leaping to her defense!
Giovanni tweeted, “I’ll say right now what the manipulative media isn’t saying… Kristen Stewart did not have any type of sex with Rupert Sanders.”
The director then goes on to take a swipe at the media saying, “You are completely entitled to your feelings and beliefs. But to resort to tearing people to pieces is so savage. Don’t lose your humanity.”
Yes, Kristen is viewed as the perpetrator in this scenario, but everyone could use a friend in their corner — even the guilty. And it seems like Kristen may have a friend in Giovanni.

[From Hollywood Life]
Does anyone else now think that Kristen slept with him too? Because that’s what I think. And seriously, what’s with this “Kristen’s biscuit is only for the Sparkledong, so what she did isn’t really cheating because we don’t have photos of the p in the v!!!!” strategy? Because it’s an awful strategy.
But the strategy may be working. Here’s a fan-made video of very young women telling Kristen Stewart to “stay strong”. For the love of God!!!!!!
And here’s video of Rupert Sanders touching himself inappropriately while in a public restaurant with Kristen (and Charlize Theron). SO GROSS.


Photos courtesy of WENN.