Liam Hemsworth's Relationship Timeline: Miley Cyrus to Gabriella Brooks

In the article that follows, I trace how a decade-long, highly public relationship ended in divorce, and how a new one was later built at a much slower, more private pace. If you're building a relationship at your own, quieter pace, ScanMyLove looks at the conversations you're already having with a partner and helps you see the patterns inside them. And if the end of a long relationship, or rebuilding afterward, speaks to your own experience, I've designed a breakup test that helps place where you stand in the process of moving on.

Few celebrity love stories have played out as publicly, or over as many years, as Liam Hemsworth's. The Australian actor's romantic history spans a decade-long relationship with Miley Cyrus that survived two engagements, a broken engagement, a house fire, and a wedding before ending in divorce — followed by a quieter, steadier chapter with Australian model Gabriella Brooks that led to an engagement in 2025. Read together, the two relationships form a rare, fully documented arc: young love interrupted, a marriage that didn't last, and a second commitment built years later, out of the spotlight that defined the first.

A decade of on-and-off romance with Miley Cyrus (2009–2018)

Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus met in June 2009 on the set of the film The Last Song, in which they played the lead roles. Their relationship began soon after and quickly became one of the most closely followed in Hollywood, marked by a pattern of engagement, separation, and reunion that lasted nearly a decade.

Engaged, broken up, engaged again

The couple's first engagement was announced in June 2012. It ended just over a year later, in September 2013, when the two split. They reconciled over the following years and became engaged for a second time in October 2016, this time staying together through to marriage. That's actually the subject of my book Saving Your Relationship: Communication, Crises, and Renewal, rebuilding trust after repeated ruptures.

A house lost, a wedding kept

In November 2018, the couple's home in Malibu was destroyed by the Woolsey Fire; they responded by donating $500,000 to relief efforts. Weeks later, on December 23, 2018, Hemsworth and Cyrus married at their home in Nashville, Tennessee, in a small private ceremony — the culmination of nearly ten years together.

Marriage, separation, and divorce (2018–2020)

The marriage did not last a full year. On August 10, 2019, Miley Cyrus publicly announced the couple's separation. Eleven days later, on August 21, 2019, Liam Hemsworth filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences" as the legal grounds — the only reason given in the court filing, and the only one that can be reported as fact rather than speculation. The divorce was finalized on January 28, 2020, closing a relationship that had begun a decade earlier on a film set.

A new chapter: Gabriella Brooks (2022–2025)

Hemsworth's next public relationship unfolded very differently from the first — with far less media exposure and a much slower pace. He was first seen publicly with Gabriella Brooks, an Australian model, at a red-carpet appearance on November 16, 2022. Unlike his relationship with Cyrus, which had played out largely under intense tabloid scrutiny from its earliest days, this one stayed mostly private for years, with the couple rarely commenting on their relationship in interviews.

The 2025 engagement

That changed on September 12, 2025, when Gabriella Brooks confirmed on Instagram that the couple was engaged, sharing a photo of her engagement ring. According to the announcement, Hemsworth had proposed shortly before. The confirmation came almost three years after the couple's first public appearance together, following a relationship that had developed gradually and largely outside the public eye — a contrast to the fast, highly visible arc of his first engagement over a decade earlier.

What an on-and-off love story with a public ending can teach about rebuilding

Set aside the celebrity names, and Liam Hemsworth's romantic history traces a pattern many couples recognize from their own lives: a relationship that starts young, goes through repeated cycles of separation and reconciliation, eventually reaches a formal commitment, and then ends — followed, sometimes years later, by a new relationship built at a different pace.

Relationship patterns that repeat — a dynamic sometimes called a relational script, a repeated way of connecting, rupturing, and reconciling that a person can carry from one relationship into the next — breaking up and reconciling multiple times before eventually marrying or separating for good, tend to carry unresolved patterns from the earlier cycles into whatever comes next, whether or not those patterns are ever named. This doesn't make such relationships doomed, nor does it mean everyone who reconciles is repeating a mistake — but it does mean that the rhythm of a relationship, not just its outcome, is worth paying attention to. A relationship that keeps ending and restarting on the same terms tends to keep producing the same result; one that changes something concrete between attempts has a different story to tell. I go into this mechanism in more depth in Understanding Your Attachment Style, why old patterns resurface unnoticed.

The period after a highly public divorce also illustrates something observable well beyond any one couple: rebuilding a relationship after a visible rupture usually happens more slowly, and with more caution, the second time around. That slower pace is not a sign that something is wrong — it is often simply what learning from a difficult ending looks like in practice, whether the people involved are public figures or not.

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FAQ

Is Liam Hemsworth married?

No. Hemsworth was married to Miley Cyrus from December 2018 until their divorce was finalized in January 2020. He has been engaged to Australian model Gabriella Brooks since September 2025.

Who is Liam Hemsworth's fiancée?

Gabriella Brooks, an Australian model. The couple was first seen publicly together in November 2022, and their engagement was confirmed in September 2025.

When did Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus divorce?

Hemsworth filed for divorce on August 21, 2019, eleven days after Cyrus announced their separation. The divorce was finalized on January 28, 2020, citing "irreconcilable differences."