According to Lili Reinhart, she did not speak about her breakup with Cole Sprouse during a recent interview. Yep, the actress just took to Twitter, where she claimed that the media “took her words out of context” after she opened up about a very dark time in her life.
While speaking to Refinery29, the blonde beauty looked back at a time where she felt like she was in a “black tunnel [that] was never going to end,” and many people quickly started to assume she was referring to her split from the Riverdale star.
“I couldn’t see the light. I was like, ‘I feel like I’m dying.’ It was f**king rough, and there’s no other way through it than just through it,” she explained. “I’ve seen a lot of people when it comes to heartache and grief and breakups, and they try to get that void filled with sex, with coke, with food, with drinking, [but] the void is still there. I took the road less traveled and just dealt with my s**t. I had to face my own pain head-on.”
As fans know, the two stars were together for almost three years before going their separate ways in May 2020.
“The last couple of months have probably [been] the most emotional few months of my entire life,” the 23-year-old added. “And my therapist [told] me, ‘Your body’s going through withdrawal from love. You’re used to having this exchange of happy chemicals between you and the person that you’re with.’ In moments of my life, I have dropped every ounce of pride that I had just to be like, ‘Love me. Please take the pain away for a day, a second, an hour,’ just so I can feel that fix again.”
But now, Lili has set the record straight once and for all, and she wants people to know that no, she was not referring to her and Cole’s breakup.
“Quotes taken from my most recent interview are not about a ‘breakup.’ They are about the depression I’ve felt over these last few months. Tired of people taking my words out of context and piecing together their own story for clickbait,” she wrote on Twitter. “I would never speak so candidly about something as personal as a breakup. That’s incredibly private. I was addressing my depression.”
I would never speak so candidly about something as personal as a breakup. That’s incredibly private. I was addressing my depression.
— Lili Reinhart (@lilireinhart) August 18, 2020
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