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Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger –  even though the two never shared a tender moment onscreen, Harry Potter fans have long speculated about the nature of the relationship between the actor Tom Felton and Emma Watson. Having sparked multiple rumors about being in a romantic relationship, the stars once opened up about their feelings for each other.

In fact, some revelations from Felton have added fuel to the fire, suggesting that their off-screen connection might have been more than just friendship.

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It’s common knowledge for Harry Potter fans that Tom Felton was Emma Watson’s first crush. As Felton recalled, the actors were asked to draw their version of God in a class, and when Felton drew a girl on a skateboard, Watson found herself smitten with him. Even the hair and makeup artists in the film were aware of Watson’s feelings, but due to the three-year age difference between them, Felton never considered a romantic relationship. Instead, they developed a close bond akin to siblings, with Felton feeling protective of Watson.

Over the years, fans began to notice the undeniable chemistry between the two, leading to speculation about a potential romance. Despite consistently maintaining that their relationship was purely platonic, Felton’s memoir,

“Rumours started to abound that there was more to our relationship than we were letting on. I denied that I liked her in that way, but the truth was different.” 

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Tom Felton confessed that his then-girlfriend even sensed the special bond between him and Watson. While he denied being romantically in love with Watson, Felton acknowledged that sparks sometimes flew between them. He described their relationship as one of deep admiration and kinship.

‘My girlfriend at the time knew straight away that there was something unspoken between us. I remember using the familiar old line, ‘I love her like a sister.’ But there was more to it than that.”

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Felton clarified that his love for Watson was not in a conventional romantic sense, but rather a profound appreciation and admiration for her as a person. He said that they will always support each other and have each other’s backs through thick and thin.

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Reignited interest among fans and added a new layer of intrigue to the long-standing “Dramione” shipping phenomenon. Although their on-screen characters may have had a contentious relationship, it seems that Felton and Watson’s real-life connection was based on genuine friendship and mutual respect.

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, Felton says he began drinking more heavily after he moved to Los Angeles, “craving normality” in the thick of Hollywood. It took Felton several tries to get sober, and he says his first stint in rehab didn’t last long, with the actor walking off the grounds after just a few days.

, Felton said he initially wasn’t going to share the story about his escape in his book, but he said Watson convinced him otherwise.

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“Emma was a big force of encouragement to be like, ‘This will resonate with people, ’ ” Felton said. “It wouldn’t really seem right just to talk about all the fluffy stuff. … After encouragement, I was given a bit more confidence in myself to go, ‘You know what? This happened, and this is part of my life.'” (Watson also wrote the foreword for

Felton added, “She’s one of the first people I think I’d spoken to about [the book], really. I was slightly reluctant to talk about my family about my personal life, about not just the great moments, but some of the bad ones too. There’s obviously gonna be trepidation about sharing that with the world. She was a massive influence to say, ‘No, put it all out there. Trust yourself. People will really connect with this.'”

), Felton admits he started “drinking to escape a situation, ” writing, “I went from being not particularly interested to regularly having a few pints a day before the sun had even gone down, and a shot of whiskey to go with each of them.” He adds that he soon began to drink on set and would show up “unprepared” for work.

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Eventually, Felton’s agents, managers, lawyers, and then-girlfriend, Jade Olivia, staged an intervention and convinced Felton to enter rehab (Felton writes that his team threatened to drop him as a client if he didn’t go). He shares a surreal anecdote from the day he arrived at the facility when the nurse checking him in offered to give him a name tag with an alias due to his celebrity.

Films, it’ll be because of my face, ” Felton writes. “It won’t be because of what’s written on my name tag. You could write ‘Mickey F**king Mouse’ on my chest, and they’re not going to think I’m him.”

Despite the brevity of that stay, Felton says the experience still gave him some clarity. After ending things with Olivia, he decided to check himself into a different facility, calling that program “life-changing” and crediting it with helping him recognize the “state of absolute numbness” he’d been living in. Still, Felton bristled at some of the rules and ultimately got kicked out after being found in another woman’s bedroom.

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Though Felton wrote that his life seemed back on track after that, a couple of years later, that aforementioned “numbness” returned. He again sought help but said it was “one of the hardest decisions I ever had to make.”

Felton goes on to admit that he still struggles with mental health issues, but he doesn’t want to keep them tucked away. “I’m no longer shy of putting my hands up and saying: I’m not okay, ” he writes. “To this day, I never know which version of myself I’m going to wake up to.”

By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services.stans know that franchise stars Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) and Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) are super close IRL, and as young actors on set, Emma crushed super hard on Tom. And although they never dated, Emma delved a little deeper into the details of their sweet relationship in a foreword for Tom’s new memoir,

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In the short introduction of the book — which hit shelves on October 18 — the actress shared that Tom has “a heart the size of a planet” and that for two decades, they’ve “loved each other in a special way.” At one point, she refered to him as her “soulmate.”

“As you’ll read in this book, our relationship didn’t start well, ” Emma began. “When we first met, I was a moony and probably rather annoying nine-year-old girl who followed him round like a puppy, desperate for his attention. But, as he has written so eloquently, beautifully and generously in this book, our friendship didn’t end there. Thank goodness it blossomed and endured.”

“Like Tom, I always struggle to explain to people the nature of our connection and relationship. For more than twenty years now we’ve loved each other in a special way, ” she continued. “It’s one of the purest loves I can think of. We’re soulmates, and we’ve always had each other’s backs. I know we always will. It makes me emotional to think about it.”

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Emma adds that they share a “true” friendship and “to be seen and loved like that is one of the great gifts of my life.”

Later in the memoir, Tom himself revealed that he had a “secret love” for Emma, but “not perhaps in the way that people might want to hear, ” according to excerpts published in

“That isn’t to say that there’s never been a spark between us. There most definitely has, only at different times, ” he wrote. “Rumours started to abound that there was more to our relationship than we were letting on. I denied that I liked her in that way, but the truth was different.”

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“My girlfriend at the time knew straight away that there was something unspoken between us. I remember using the familiar old line, ‘I love her like a sister.’ But there was more to it than