Paul Mescal’s star rose in a way in which we’ve never seen before.
He crashed into our lives as Connell Waldron in Normal People in 2020 and in the last four years, he has become the world’s biggest star.
When you become one of the world’s biggest stars you can be assured that people want to know about your private life.
Oh, and, that rumours will crop up.
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Last year, a woman went viral for claiming that Paul Mescal will have one-night stands with women in London, bring them for a walk in a park the next morning and then run off.
It’s easy to see why this hilarious rumour took the internet by storm.
And now Paul has addressed those rumours for the first time.
Speaking to GQ he brushes them off with a laugh.
“We were looking at the videos and we were pissing ourselves at it. Categorically untrue. And we were laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing,” he told the publication, admitting he watched them with his siblings Donncha and Nell.
“And the one thing that upset me was that I was in the kitchen, I remember my mum looking at the videos and she was getting upset. Isn’t that devastating? I was like, Oh, it’s funny to us—my brother, me, my sister—because we know that this is the way the internet works.
“It’s hilarious. If it was true, it’d be f**king bad, but as a rumour, it’s funny. Then I was like, oh if you’re a mother, her impulse is to come out and be like, ‘He wouldn’t do this.’ ”
Paul has been notoriously private about his personal life including his former relationship with singer Phoebe Bridgers and now his rumoured new girlfriend, Gracie Abrams.
“I’ve learned that there’s certain lines in the sand now for me that just are going to be impenetrable for the benefit of my own sanity, but also the benefit of my work. Because I think if you don’t have those boundaries up in terms of lines in the sand in regards to your private life, people know way too much about you and then they can’t invest in the imagined landscape of your character because they know what your favourite thing to eat for breakfast is,” he said.
“I mean, the speculation has been kind of mad for the last x amount of years. I’m not comfortable inviting any access into that part of my life. How I am in my private life is so precious to me because I get very little of it, and it might be public interest, but it’s not public-obligated information.”
Fair enough!
