Dakota Johnson appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last night, where she opened up about the biggest news story about her last week: Not her and Chris Martin's romance being back on, but Twitter mourning her closing her tooth gap. It really is closed, she confirmed.
"Yeah, it’s really stressing me out," Johnson said of the tooth gap coverage. "Well, the fact this is a newsworthy in our world right now is pretty shockockan to me."
Then she explained how it happened and that she's grieving the loss, too. "I had a permanent retainer since I was 13, and it was just glued to the back of my teeth. I was having a lot of neck problems recently so my orthodontist, she decided it would be a good idea to take it off and see if my jaw expanded, and it helped me. And my gap closed by itself. And I’m really sad about it too."
Fallon didn't quite get the logic of this—why neck pain would require taking a retainer off—so Johnson explained it to him. "As you grow as a human being, your skull expands and your jaw and teeth move. Your teeth don’t look like they do when you were baby."
The two discussed Fallon's veneers; then the host tried to change the subject entirely from teeth to something else. But Johnson wasn't done talking about her closed tooth gap and how much she misses it. "Anyway, hold on, this is really important," she cut in passionately. "I’m sad about my gap tooth too so I’d really appreciate some privacy at this time."
It's hard not having the gap, she explained. "I have to deal with a whole new world of problems getting food stuck in my tooth. Before it would slide right through. It’s going to come back [the gap]," she said with a laugh. "[With] other retainers. The world of dentistry is so advanced."
You can watch her entire interview on the matter below:
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