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Celebs Who Don’t Believe In Monogamy

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Not every A-lister buys into the idea that one partner for life is the natural order of things.

Nicki Swift’s video “Celebs Who Don’t Believe In Monogamy” rounds up a handful of famous names who have said, on the record, that lifelong sexual exclusivity isn’t as simple — or as natural — as the wedding-industrial complex makes it look. These aren’t tabloid scandal confessions; they’re candid interview moments from Scarlett Johansson, Akon, Whoopi Goldberg, Kristen Bell and Ethan Hawke, each explaining why they think fidelity is a choice you have to work at rather than a switch that flips on the day you say “I do.”

• Scarlett Johansson told Playboy in a March/April 2017 interview, after splitting from Romain Dauriac, that “I don’t think it’s natural to be a monogamous person.”
• Akon has repeatedly and publicly defended polygyny, arguing that multiple relationships are natural for men.
• Ethan Hawke told Mr Porter in 2013, following his 2005 divorce from Uma Thurman, that treating sexual fidelity as the only measure of relationship integrity is “childish.”

Scarlett Johansson’s Long-Running Case Against Monogamy

Johansson didn’t just stumble into this topic once. She first raised it during press for Match Point back in 2006, and returned to it more pointedly in that 2017 Playboy sit-down, which came in the wake of her split from Dauriac. She was careful to say she respects the institution of marriage, but drew a hard line between respect and instinct — telling the magazine that staying faithful “goes against some instinct to look beyond” and takes real, ongoing effort rather than happening automatically.

“I don’t think it’s natural to be a monogamous person.”

That framing is the throughline of the whole video: monogamy isn’t presented as a default setting people either honor or betray, but as a deliberate practice that some of the industry’s biggest names say requires constant maintenance.

Akon’s Public Defense Of Polygyny

Where Johansson frames the issue in terms of instinct, Akon has been far more direct about structure. The singer has used interviews over the years to defend polygyny outright, arguing that having multiple partners is simply natural for men rather than something to hide or apologize for. It’s a stance that’s made him a recurring reference point whenever this conversation comes up in celebrity culture, precisely because he doesn’t hedge it.

Whoopi Goldberg On Choosing Solitude Over A Third Trip Down The Aisle

Whoopi Goldberg’s take is less about polyamory and more about rejecting the domestic setup that monogamy usually comes packaged with. After three marriages, Goldberg has said flatly that she enjoys living alone and has no interest in anyone else living in her house. She’s been blunt that she simply isn’t cut out for committed, cohabitating domestic life — a distinction the video draws out as its own form of not believing in the traditional monogamous package, separate from questions of fidelity itself.

Kristen Bell And Ethan Hawke On The Work Behind Fidelity

Kristen Bell offers maybe the most grounded version of this argument in the video, given that she’s married to Dax Shepard. Bell has spoken candidly about how unrealistic it is to expect lifelong sexual exclusivity to just happen on its own, crediting intense communication and therapy — not instinct — for keeping their relationship intact. It’s a similar thread as Johansson’s, minus the divorce context.

Ethan Hawke’s version comes with more edge. Following his 2005 divorce from Uma Thurman, Hawke told Mr Porter in 2013 that human beings aren’t naturally monogamous, and pushed back on the idea that sexual fidelity alone should be the benchmark for whether a relationship has integrity. Calling that standard “childish” put him in blunter territory than Bell, but the underlying point lines up with the rest of the lineup: these are people who think the culture oversimplifies what commitment actually requires.

Fans who followed Johansson’s post-divorce press cycle may recognize the same pattern that’s shown up in other celebrity split coverage, like the aftermath detailed in Inside Megan Fox’s Relationship History, where public relationship history gets picked apart for clues about what a star really believes about commitment. It’s also the same territory covered in The Truth About Sandra Bullock’s Relationship With Bryan Randall, another case where a famous relationship gets read against the usual Hollywood script.

What ties Johansson, Akon, Goldberg, Bell and Hawke together isn’t scandal — it’s that each of them answered a direct question about fidelity with an honest “no, not really,” instead of the usual publicist-approved dodge. That’s the whole reason Nicki Swift built five minutes of video around it.