Scarlett Johansson starts giving her 10-year-old daughter dating advice

Scarlett Johansson begins to teach her daughter a little about the dating world.

The Black Widow star, 40, shared the Tuesday, January 21 episode of Today with Jenna and friends that she recently introduced her daughter Rose, 10, to the concept of “ghosting”. The co-host said she had a conversation with Rose when her daughter told her she stopped talking to a boy who liked her.

“I just had this conversation with my 10-year-old daughter about ghosts because there was a little boy who liked her and then she didn’t feel the same,” she began. “She just stopped talking to him and he felt terrible. And I told her I was introducing the ghost concept.”

“It really makes the other person feel terrible about themselves. It kind of puts them in this spiral,” she added, before admitting that she ghosted people when they were dating. “I hate confrontation.”

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The Lucy the actress noted that she would rather be dumped, either in person or over the phone, because the act of ghosting someone is “terrible.” She said that leaves the other person without closure.

“Honestly, it’s horrible to be ghosted because you’re just left with no answers at all and you’re like, ‘Oh my god, did I do something?’ ” she said. “It haunts you for years.”

Johansson, who is married to Saturday Night Live star Colin Jost, 42, has two children: Rose, 10, and Cosmo, 3. The actress welcomed her daughter in August 2014 with then-husband Romain Dauriac. After remarrying in 2020, Johansson welcomed her son Cosmo with Jost.

While Johansson refrains from sharing pictures of her young children, she often opens up about her life at home in interviews.

The actress has spoken candidly about the ups and downs of parenting, even joking that raising a toddler was like “being in an emotionally abusive relationship.”