Two years after their breakup, model Gigi Paris is finally speaking out—and she’s not holding back. In a candid appearance on the Too Much podcast, the 32-year-old opened up about her painful split from Anyone But You star Glen Powell, and how the rumors surrounding him and co-star Sydney Sweeney made the situation even worse.
Though she never named names, Gigi’s comments clearly pointed to the media storm that erupted in 2023 as Powell and Sweeney promoted their rom-com with palpable on-screen chemistry.
Reflecting on the period, Gigi said, “It was just, this is what I have to do for my job. 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 f–k?’ 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.”
She went on to explain how she felt disrespected, especially given the length of their relationship. “I just wanted respect, especially if it’s gonna be public. 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.”
At one point, she explained what she wanted from Powell as the rumors intensified. “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.”
The most heartbreaking moment came when she recalled the phone call that sealed their breakup. At the time, Powell and Sweeney were filming Anyone But You in Australia, and Gigi was planning to visit.
“I got a phone call from him right when I was about to go to Australia to work…[as] all this s–t was coming out on the Internet,” she said. “And he called and said, the producers and I have discussed that I think it’s best that you don’t come to visit…And that’s when I hung up. And I was like, this motherf–ker is done to me.”
“That phone call really is what broke me,” she admitted. “I thought we had hope, like, maybe when I got there that, like, things would maybe get better. But once I got that phone call, I just knew it was done. I had lost whoever that person was that I loved.”
She didn’t let things end over the phone, though. Gigi flew to Australia anyway to end things face-to-face. “I went anyways just to look him in the eye and break up with him…it was the hardest thing I’d ever had to do….But then I was stuck there for two weeks doing my jobs. And there was a rule, like, I was not allowed near set. I was not allowed anywhere near production. It was very bizarre.”
Although it’s been a long time since their split, Gigi’s raw honesty reveals the emotional toll behind the headlines—and the power of walking away with self-respect intact.
