Amanda de Cadenet has revealed she is ‘grateful’ that her ex-boyfriend Keanu Reeves is still part of her ‘extended family’ after he ‘restored’ her faith in men.

The 50-year-old presenter dated Hollywood star Keanu, 57, from 1996 until 2001 and said she is ‘very protective’ of his privacy, but admires how he is able to ‘balance’ fame with his private life.

She told The Guardian: ‘I’m very protective of his privacy. But I will say that he’s a very kind, authentic person.

I’m so grateful he’s still part of my family’: Amanda de Cadenet (pictured in January 2019), 50, has gushed over her ex-boyfriend Keanu Reeves after he ‘restored her faith in men’

She continued: ‘He’s the most unfamous famous person ever, by which I mean he has been able to maintain that balance, which is very hard. He’s a part of my extended family and I’m really grateful for that.’

The Big Breakfast star was previously married to Duran Duran bassist John Taylor during the early 1990s and has 30-year-old daughter Atlanta with himShe went on to tie the knot with Strokes star Nick Valensi back in 2006 and has twins Ella and Silvan, 15, with him, and explained that both Keanu and Nick had helped ‘restore her faith in men’.

She said: ‘My best friend [Keanu] and especially my husband helped to restore my faith in men because it’s really unusual for a young man in that profession to choose to be in a marriage’.

‘I mean, he [Nick] became a father at 24 and he had never held a 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 before he held his twins’

Amanda then joked that when the twins were 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧, the ‘Last Nite’ rocker took a break from the band to help her and she ended up wishing he would go back on the road.

She added: ‘[When they were 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧], he took a sabbatical from the Strokes so he could be a present father’.

‘So, suddenly I had a husband at home 24/7 who was like: ‘It’s time to feed them again, and can you express extra milk because this one didn’t get enough last time?’.

I was like: ‘Oh my God, can you go on tour again, please.’

In 2020, Amanda dropped her support for Amber Heard after listening to her ‘verbally abusing’ Johnny Depp in bombshell audio tapes published exclusively

Actress Amber, 34, was expecting Amanda, a close friend and longtime women’s rights activist, to testify against her estranged husband during his defamation case against her.

But Amanda revealed in a legal declaration that she changed her mind because she was ‘appalled and shocked to hear how Amber was speaking to Johnny’.

Actress Amber, 34, was expecting Amanda, a close friend and longtime women’s rights activist, to testify against her estranged husband during his defamation case against her.

But Amanda revealed in a legal declaration that she changed her mind because she was ‘appalled and shocked to hear how Amber was speaking to Johnny’.

Her dramatic about-turn came after DailyMail.com released a series of bombshell audio tapes in which the couple were overheard discussing their marriage problems and frequent fights

The Aquaman beauty admitted ‘clocking’ her Oscar nominated husband in the jaw and pelting him with pots, pans and vases in various recordings made prior to the couple’s May 2016 split.

In 2020, a British court ruled that 12 of 14 violence incidents claimed by Heard were ‘substantially true’, and Depp was subsequently forced to resign from the ‘Fantastic Beasts’ franchise at the request of Warner Bros.

After his victorious defamation suit against Heard in the US earlier this year, he was awarded $15million.