Ah, it was just a bit of fun.
Paul Mescal has confirmed he has heard the rumours about his treatment of one-night stands.
Last year, it was claimed that Paul would bring partners to the park the morning after sleeping with them. Once there, he would sprint away from the person.
Speaking with GQ Magazine, Paul explained that he found the story hilarious — but not everyone in his family saw the funny side of things.
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Over last year's Christmas period, Paul was spending time with his family when he first heard the rumours.
“We were looking at the videos and we were p*ssing ourselves at it. Categorically untrue. And we were laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing.
“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."
Paul acknowledged it would be a "bad" rumour if there was any truth to it, but he knew it wasn't and so he found it funny. Meanwhile, his mother was struggling with it as she wanted to protect him.
"I was like, Oh, if you’re a mother, her impulse is to come out and be like, ‘He wouldn’t do this,'" he said.
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Is Paul Mescal single?
While it's not been confirmed, it appears Paul Mescal is in a relationship with Gracie Abrams.
The pair have regularly been spotted holding hands and kissing in public.
In his chat with GQ, he called it "kind of mad" to have the public speculating on his love life. Now for his own sake and the sake of his career, he has created strong boundaries around his private life.
"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 favorite thing to eat for breakfast is.
“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.”
