Sorry, Paul Mescal Isn’t Going to Tell You His Relationship Status
“Giving strangers an answer about my life doesn’t actually help me,” the actor told Vanity Fair, despite the temptation to make everyone "shut the fuck up."
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If you’re anything like me (a bonafide Sad Girl™), you’ll remember how last year’s pre-holiday cheer was largely extinguished by rumors that Phoebe Bridgers and Paul Mescal had called it quits. Following various sightings of Bridgers canoodling with comedian Bo Burnham, the Internet was devastated about what this meant for her engagement to Mescal. Since that media storm, we’ve largely been left in the dark as to what the hell is going on with these beautiful, melancholy people. Now, in a new interview with Vanity Fair, Mescal is breaking his silence on the subject without actually…breaking it at all.
“I definitely feel the temptation to say the status of my whatever—that will always be there. But I don’t think that’s a wise thing to do,” he told the mag. While I respect Mescal’s efforts to sound nonchalant about it all, I am personally offended that the Twitter romance that sustained me in lockdown is now being referred to as “whatever.”