Nobody in Hollywood generates the kind of attention Megan Fox does — and after months of silence following one of the most public and painful relationship breakdowns anyone had watched in real time, she came back and said absolutely nothing about any of it.

Instead she spoke about self discovery, her children and her determination to define herself completely on her own terms — no longer through the lens of any relationship, any man or any narrative that Hollywood tried to write for her. She captioned her return with six words — “it is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver” — and every single person who has ever been underestimated by someone they trusted understood exactly what she meant.