Emma Roberts Reveals the Breakup Advice She Wished She Knew in Her 20s: 'Do What You Want to Do and Have So Much Fun'

Emma Roberts has learned some very important lessons about love in her 33 years on earth.

Now happily engaged to longtime partner Cody John, the Scream Queens star recently reflected on the advice she wished she'd known when she was younger about life and relationships.

During a chat with Tell Me Lies star Grace Van Patten, Roberts was asked about what she would tell someone who was going through a difficult split. "For me, I would say break up with them and change your number, which is easier said than done," she said.

"I’m in my 30s, I have a kid, I’m engaged, and I think about how in my 20s, I just spent so much time being upset over a guy or trying to change myself or thinking I could change them," the blonde beauty explained. "I’m like, 'Why wasn’t I traveling and hanging out with my mom and spending time with my sister and reading more books and just going on a road trip instead of crying about a guy?' My sister’s 23, and I always say, 'Do what you want to do and have so much fun with yourself.'"

Roberts, who has dated the likes of Evan Peters and shares son Rhodes Robert Hedlund, 3, with Garrett Hedlund, has flourished in her third decade of life. "I’m at a place where I can say, 'I may not have got everything right but I like who I am more than I ever have,'" she previously said in a 2022 interview.

"My life has changed more in the past two years than it did in the 28 years beforehand and I love where I’m standing now at the age of 30," the Unfabulous alum emphasized.

Perhaps the most life-altering change Roberts has experienced in the past three years has been becoming a mother, especially after she was diagnosed with endometriosis and was unsure if she would be able to ever have children.

"I wasn’t upset but I just felt the heaviness of the moment," she said of processing the news of her health hurdle. "I sat with myself and thought, 'Luckily, I know older women who are great role models of the fact that you don’t need children to be happy.' I either would or would not be a parent. Whichever one it was, I wanted to be in radical acceptance of it."

Luckily, Roberts overcame the obstacle and is now focused on being the best parent she possibly can be for her little boy. "I definitely think about how I can help him be the utmost gentleman," the former child star added. "I want him to be respectful and intelligent at school but also in life. What it means to be a man is being rewritten right now and I hope my contribution to the world can be raising an amazing boy who turns into an amazing man. I want him to feel that there’s nothing he couldn’t ask or tell me."

Nylon published the interview between Roberts and Van Patten.