Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson Relationship News: Actress Talks ‘Incredibly Painful’ Breakup

Kristen Stewart has opened up about her very public breakup scandal and how she used her emotions to help her delve into her character in "Equals," a movie about a future society that has found harmony by getting rid of emotions.

In case you do not remember, Stewart was dating her "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson when several pictures of her sharing an intimate kiss and embrace with her then-married "Snow White and the Huntsman's" director Rupert Sanders, surfaced.

"It was incredibly painful," Stewart said to the Daily Beast about her breakup. "Ugh, f**king kill me. It was a really good time for both of us to make this movie. Not all of my friends have been through what I've been through, or what some people have tasted at a relatively-speaking young age, and we were not expected to do anything. Everything that we did was explorative, and a meditation on what we already knew."

Stewart's co-star, Nicholas Hoult, was also going through a break up. In "Equals," which is directed by Drake Doremus, Stewart stars as Nia, a girl who falls in love with her co-worker, Silas Hoult). The two must runaway or face termination.

"We all felt akin by how much we've been through, and to utilize that is so scary. And to acknowledge it, reassess, and jump back into it? Usually you want to move on," Stewart explained. "But at least we could use some of that for some good. This movie was a meditation on firsts, and a meditation on maintaining, and a meditation on the ebbs and flows of what it's like to love someone-your feelings versus your ideals, the bursting of bubbles, the shattering of dreams you thought were possible, and what you have to contend with as things get more realistic."

Despite how painful the breakup was, Stewart said that it is important to remember that you can find love again.

"If you've been hurt-you know when you've broken up with someone and you look at someone walking down the street holding hands and think, 'Ugh, give it a f**kin' year. Let me know how you feel in a year, ugh, I don't' believe in that,'" Stewart said.

"Well if we did our jobs right, then it would be to remind you that you can definitely get back to that, and how hard, amazing, and life-fulfilling those feelings were in the very beginning."

"Equals" has premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.