In a new interview for Harper’s Bazaar UK, Kristen Stewart opened up about why she and ex-boyfriend Robert Pattinson kept their romance private.

The Twilight costars were together throughout the franchise’s life in theaters. And despite the media attention, both chose to stay silent about their relationship even while promoting the films.

“When me and Rob were together, we did not have an example to go by,” she said. “So much was taken from us that, in trying to control one aspect, we were just like, ‘No, we will never talk about it. Never. Because it’s ours.’”

The two initially split in 2012, when photos emerged of Kristen kissing her married Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders. Though she and Robert reconciled shortly after, they called it quits in 2013.

“People wanted me and Rob to be together so badly that our relationship was made into a product,” she previously told The New York Times Style Magazine. “It wasn’t real life anymore and that was gross to me. It’s not that I want to hide who I am or hide anything I’m doing in my life. It’s that I don’t want to become a part of a story for entertainment value.”

Later, in a 2017 interview with The Guardian, she came out as bisexual.

“I think I just wanted to enjoy my life,” she told Harpers Bazaar UK. “And that took precedence over protecting my life, because in protecting it, I was ruining it. What, you can’t go outside with who you’re with? You can’t talk about it in an interview? I was informed by an old school mentality, which is — you want to preserve your career and your success and your productivity, and there are people in the world who don’t like you, and they don’t like that you date girls, and they don’t like that you don’t identify as a quote unquote ‘lesbian,’ but you also don’t identify as a quote unquote ‘heterosexual.’ And people like to know stuff, so what the f— are you?”

She added, “I have fully been told, ‘If you just like do yourself a favor, and don’t go out holding your girlfriend’s hand in public, you might get a Marvel movie.’ I don’t want to work with people like that.”