We all knew that there would come a time where Joe Alwyn would speak about the end of his relationship with Taylor Swift. As much as some may not want to hear what he has to say, the truth is he has a right to speak his truth. We all do.
The actor has been doing promotion for his movie, Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness, on June 21, and sat down The Sunday Times Style Magazine ahead of the release. He was asked about his breakup and if he had listened to The Tortured Poets Department and in typical Alwyn fashion, he avoided the question, but answered in his own fashion of saying something and nothing at all.
He said, “I would hope that anyone and everyone can empathize and understand the difficulties that come with the end of a long, loving, fully committed relationship of over six and a half years. That is a hard thing to navigate. What is unusual and abnormal in this situation is that, one week later, it’s suddenly in the public domain and the outside world is able to weigh in.”
While we think that we can all understand that breakups are hard, not many of us will ever be able to understand what it is like to break up in the public eye. It would be one of the worst things – in our opinion – to have the world weigh in on our heartbreak.
“So you have something very real suddenly thrown into a very unreal space: tabloids, social media, press, where it is then dissected, speculated on, pulled out of shape beyond recognition,” Alwyn continued by telling the outlet. “And the truth is, to that last point, there is always going to be a gap between what is known and what is said. I have made my peace with that.”
He continued, “As everyone knows, we together — both of us, mutually — decided to keep the more private details of our relationship private. It was never something to commodify and I see no reason to change that now.”
