Sean Penn On His Divorces

Sexy “Milk” star Sean Penn has opened up to Esquire about his shambly love life, especially his divorce from wife of 13 years, Robin Wright.

The two married in 1996, filed for divorce in 2007, and reconciled. Penn filed for separation in 2009, only to withdraw it. However in the fall, Wright filed for divorce and in 2010, the two were officially done.

Penn seems surprisingly sensitive in the magazine, saying little about how their turbulent relationship was.

“There’s no shame in saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don’t feel I’ve ever had that,” he said.

“When you get divorced, all the truths that come out, you sit there and you go, ‘What the f*** was I doing? What was I doing believing that this person was invested in this way?’ Which is a fantastically strong humiliation in the best sense,” he added. “It can make somebody very bitter and very hard and closed off, but I find it does the opposite to me.”

After his divorce with Penn, his son Hopper moved in with Wright, and Penn found a lot of down time.

“I thought, ‘Wow, I can actually go on a date.’ And so I go out and I strike out four nights in a row, drinking at a bar and ending up home, you know, drunk.”

His ex wife who never loved him and a marriage with Madonna (that involved him hitting her with a baseball bat) didn’t seem to stop his dating life, for all that.

He was linked briefly to “Avengers” hottie and younger woman Scarlett Johansson last summer, but dropped her because he wasn't looking for anything serious.

I'm not sure how bad I feel for him...