Like I said before it's very hard to judge a relationship from the very outside especially when the reports are 2nd handed and never from the 2 people who are actually involved. I mean how the fuck can some reporters write about a relationship Leo and his girlfriend(s) NEVER EVER spoke about? So those reports are nothing but speculations and some observations from again second (actually 3rd) hand sightings and maybe some photos (which also never tell a complete story but only a particular moment). I mean Leo is in this business for over 30 years. He ain't stupid. He knows how to feed the public and believe me when I say he just let us know exactly what he wants us to know lol
So if he wants us to believe he's a player we believe he's a player. That's the picture he's delivering the world for 3 decades now. That doesn't mean it's necessarily true. His private life is just that. Private. None of us has the glimpse of a idea how it really looks like on a daily basis behind closed doors. He made sure of it after the crazyness of Titanic and the following "Leo mania".
I mean... he lived through this for a couple of years.
It wasn't just 2 minutes for him like this. He was chased and hunted. Not only by the media but the freakin world. Every step he did back then was reported. Everything he did was reported. Everyone he met, everyone he spoke with was exposed. Rumors about his sexual preferences were created and spread. People called him secretly gay, a drug addict, a sex addict and god knows what. People not only highly sexualizied him but the anti stans called him too feminine, fat and ugly among other unflattering things. Leo said multiple times how he felt nothing like a "piece of meat" back then. He had to create his life around this madness. So of fuckin course he figured out a strategy that worked for him to protect himself and everything personal. It's called SELF DEFENSE.
How do you guys think he made it through all of it without losing his mind and more important himself? Someone more weak/unstable/vulnerable probably wouldn't survived it and I'm really tired of people acting like this pretty intense, hard to handle, unique era of his life was without impact of him for the rest of his life. I mean we were all part of it not just him