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Emma Watson turned heads at Paris Fashion Week with a new ring on her left ring finger. Emma Watson, who is publicly single, recently revealed on Jay Shetty’s On Purpose podcast that she received it as a gift from the 22 closest people in her life. “I’ve never owned anything so valuable in my life, because to me it represents the life I’ve built,” she said.
Emma Watson wore a chic pink minidress to Miu Miu’s Paris Fashion Week show, but it was the dramatic diamond sparkle on her left ring finger that caught fans’ attention. Some wondered if the 35-year-old actress, who is publicly single, was making a subtle announcement about her relationship status.
However, Us Weekly reports that Watson is not engaged and actually revealed the meaning behind the ring during an appearance on Jay Shetty on Purpose’s podcast last month. This piece was a gift from the 22 closest people in her life. She called it one of the most precious things she owns and a symbol of the life and community she built for herself. Watson first wore it on her right ring finger at the Venice Film Festival.
Emma Watson wears a petal ring at the Venice Film Festival on September 6, 2025.
“After this journey over the last seven years, I thought, ‘Okay, I feel like I’ve kind of arrived at a place…a place where I want to celebrate where I ended up after leaving the land,'” she said on the podcast.
“I had a ceremony. I think it was a day of celebration with friends and chosen family, and they each bought me this ring with 22 petals on it. And each of them bought one,” she continued. “And I’ve never owned anything more valuable in my life, because it represents the life I’ve built, and it’s what I really wanted, and it’s made of community, my roots, faith and trust. And in a funny way, it signals to me that I’ve accomplished what I wanted to accomplish, even though there’s no sign of success whatsoever, except for this crazy one-woman play that I wrote.” myself. “
Watson was thrilled, adding: “I love that every time I look down at my finger, I see all the faces of the people who bought it.”
In the same interview, she also talked about how she thinks about marriage. “I think we are under pressure and forced to do this. I believe this is a kind of miracle,” she admitted. “I may never deserve it. I wish it would happen to me, but I don’t feel like I deserve it. It’s either going to be part of my purpose here and my destiny, or it’s not.”
She called the pressure on people, especially young people, to get married “such violence.” She goes on to say, “It’s about making them feel like they’re worthless, like they’re not yet successful in life, because they’re not forcing themselves to do things that I don’t think they can and shouldn’t be forced to do until they get to that pinnacle.”
“Honestly, I feel like it’s something I had to earn and I had to work for. Being able to look someone in the eye and tell them who you are and have some idea of what you want and what you’re here to do, and then it changes and grows.”
The actress also shed some light on her dating experience, saying, “I think it’s nice to have the freedom to do it, at least for everyone, because dating is basically a complete disaster. So I feel like I’m in good company in that sense.”
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