Glen Powell’s ex-girlfriend Gigi Paris is finally breaking her silence on those Sydney Sweeney rumors.
Quick reminder before we get into it: Speculation about Glen and Sydney kicked off when they were filming Anyone But You, when Glen was also going through his breakup with Gigi. At the time, a source told People, “They had been on the rocks since Top Gun came out. Gigi was never happy with the long-distance filming, and when she came to Australia, they both decided to break up for good. It wasn’t about infidelity. She’s on different coasts modeling; he’s on different coasts filming. When she left, they were on great terms.”
Meanwhile, Gigi posted THIS:
Cut to now, and Gigi said on the Too Much podcast (via People), “I had two options. 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 okay with this? What the fuck?’ Or stand up for myself and say, ‘No, I’m actually not okay with this, and I’m walking away.’ So that’s what I decided to do....I was shattered.”
“I just wanted respect, especially if it’s gonna be public,” she added. “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? And at the end of the day, it was like, well, work comes first. 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.”
She added, “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. And that wasn’t said....Never once. It was serving them for their PR. 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. Just to sell a movie or not, who knows? And I honestly hoped that they’d end up together, because I was, like, at least it would make it worth it for me, you know? I hope they are in love or whatnot.”
FYI, Glen opened up about leaning into the romance rumors with Sydney during an interview with Insider, saying, “Well, look, the only reason it made things harder for me to lean into that stuff was that I was going through a very real breakup amidst a promotional tour.”
He and Sydney have since spent time together (she showed up to a family wedding!), but they aren’t dating. Although an Us Weekly source implied that their vibes also impacted Sydney’s relationship with her fiancé: “Things are also always tense between them when she is promoting a movie because she has to give her full attention to the project, and people always speculate about their relationship and Sydney being close to her costars. It’s a tough dynamic for Jonathan.”
