Scarlett Johansson Is Starting to Give Her 10-Year-Old Daughter Dating Advice — and Shares What She Taught Her About 'Ghosting'

The 'Avengers' actress has two children: Rose, 10, and Cosmo, 3

Scarlett Johansson is starting to teach her daughter a little bit about the dating world.

The Black Widow star, 40, shared on the Tuesday, Jan. 21 episode of Today with Jenna and Friends that she recently introduced her daughter Rose, 10, to the concept of "ghosting." The guest co-host said she had a conversation with Rose when her daughter shared that she stopped talking to a boy who liked her.

"I just had this conversation with my 10-year-old daughter about ghosting because there was this little boy that liked her, and then she wasn't feeling the same," she began. "She just stopped talking to him straight up and he felt terrible. And I was telling her, I introduced the ghosting concept."

"It really makes the other person feel terrible about themselves. It kind of sets them on this spiral," she added, before admitting that she's ghosted people when she was dating. "I hate confrontation."

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The Lucy actress noted that she'd rather be dumped, whether in-person or over the phone because the act of ghosting someone is "awful." She said it leaves the other person without closure.

"Honestly being ghosted is awful because you're just left with no answers at all and you're thinking, 'Oh my god, did I do something?' " she said. "It haunts you for years."

Johansson, who is married to Saturday Night Live star Colin Jost, 42, has two children: Rose, 10, and Cosmo, 3. The actress welcomed her daughter in August 2014, with her then-husband Romain Dauriac. After remarrying in 2020, Johansson welcomed her son Cosmo with Jost.

While Johansson refrains from sharing photos of her young children, she often opens up about her life at home in interviews.

The actress has spoken candidly about the highs and lows of parenting, even joking that raising a toddler was like "being in an emotionally abusive relationship."