In early 2023, when dating rumors were swirling between Anyone But You co-stars Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney, news broke that Powell and his longtime girlfriend Gigi Paris had gone their separate ways. Of course, that only boosted the rumors even more. But what really happened behind the scenes?
In a new episode of the Too Much podcast, Paris, who dated Powell from January 2020 to April 2023, opened up about their split. According to her, Powell embraced the dating rumors at the time as a strategic PR move for their rom-com, no matter how strongly his girlfriend pushed against it.
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“This is what I have to do for my job,” Powell reportedly told Paris, per Us Weekly. “I had two options,” she then said. “I could either pretend like I was going along with everything and have everyone wonder, like, ‘Are they hooking up? Are they not hooking up? Is she OK with this? What the f—?’ Or stand up for myself and say, ‘No, I’m actually not OK with this, and I’m walking away.’ So that’s what I decided to do.”
“I just wanted respect, especially if it’s gonna be public,” Paris said. “Like, don’t make an ass out of me. Like, just don’t make a fool out of someone you’ve been with for over three years, talking about forever with. Just have some decency, you know?”
From the looks of it, Powell was just not willing to put their relationship above his acting career.
“At the end of the day, it was like, well, work comes first,” Paris said of the Top Gun: Maverick star. “And if that’s the case, power to you, that’s your priority. I gotta walk away. What sucked was how it was handled. I felt like I was just fed to the dogs.”
Gigi Paris and Glen Powell at the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at The Beverly Hilton on January 10, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California.
Looking back, Paris admitted that it wouldn’t have taken much for her to back off.
“Where are you when you just need to stand up and say, ‘No, I would never cheat on my girlfriend. I wouldn’t do that.’ That’s all that needed to be said,” she said. “And that wasn’t said. Never once.”
“It was serving them for their PR,” she said. “Later on, it turned out that it was all, I don’t know if there was a relationship there or not, but then they came out to say it was all a PR scheme at the expense of our relationship. Like, it was just crazy.”
Paris also revealed what her last straw was before calling it quits.
“I got a phone call from him right when I was about to go to Australia to work — all this s— was coming out on the Internet – and he called and said, ‘The producers and I have discussed that I think it’s best that you don’t come to visit,’” she remembered. “And that’s when I hung up. And I was like, ‘This motherf— is done to me.’”
Paris and Powell called it quits in April 2023. Powell and Sweeney, who is now single herself after her split from ex-fiancé Jonathan Davino, have never confirmed a relationship.
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