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Sabrina Carpenter Makes Rare Comment About Ex Barry Keoghan
Please, please, please leave Barry Keoghan alone.
Nearly two years after the Banshees of Inisherin actor and Sabrina Carpenter broke up amid rumors he cheated on the Grammy winner, he addressed the speculation and subsequent backlash.
“I have been avoiding stuff,” Barry said during an April 28 episode of the Friends Keep Secrets podcast. “I came off Instagram and social profiles. I stopped going to events. I stopped socializing.”
And while the 33-year-old—who shares a 3-year-old son with ex Alyson Sandro—did not mention the “House Tour” singer by name, he repeatedly referred to an old “narrative” about him, nodding to the backlash surrounding him following their breakup in December 2024.
“A narrative that’s not true that I’ve never said anything about it,” Barry continued. “I just disappeared.”
Admitting that speculation around any celebrity relationship often “gets amplified,” he slammed the way people treated him after his and Sabrina’s year-long relationship came to an end.
“I’m not asking people to become my fan or like me,” he continued, “but I’m asking people to stop assuming and to stop jumping on this narrative and attacking me and dragging me down in any way. Just absolutely disgusting, vile.”
Although he alluded to his and Sabrina’s time together—which began in late 2023—he emphasized that he “never” wants to “mention other people or involve them.”
And he has a simple explanation why.
“Even if it is those people that I was in a relationship with, it’s not my place or their place to speak on my or their behalf,” he continued. “It’s unfair to them. They’re also in the relationship. It’s both of us out there. I’m very aware of that.”
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For Sabrina’s part, she’s similarly declined to speak through anything but her songs—and even then she won’t name real names.
“I just wouldn't say,” she told CBS Mornings of who her songs are about, noting that for her fans listening to her music, “It’s more fun to picture the person in their head than the person I picture in my head.”
Their romance might be over, but there was a time when Sabrina liked this boy. Keep reading for a look back on their relationship…
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February 2024: Romance Confirmed
After sparking romance rumors in December 2023, Sabrina Carpenter and Barry Keoghan fueled dating speculation when they were photographed together on a date night in Los Angeles less than two months later.
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February 2024: Queen Sabrina
The Saltburn star made his relationship with the "Espresso" singer Instagram official by commenting on a video of her performing a duet with Taylor Swift in Sydney, Australia. Sabrina had opened for the Grammy winner for weeks on her Eras Tour but was unable to perform her regular set that day due to bad weather.
Barry would later go on to meet up with Sabrina during the tour.
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March 2024: Post-Oscars Date
The pair attended Vanity Fair's 2024 Oscars after-party together but did not walk the red carpet together.
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May 2024: Red Carpet Official
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May 2024: Happy Birthday Sabrina
The "Feather" artist celebrated her 25th birthday with The Banshees of Inisherin alum, friends and a Leonardo DiCaprio meme.
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June 2024: "Please, Please, Please"
If their relationship wasn't official enough already, Sabrina and Barry hard-launched through the singer's music video for "Please, Please, Please." Later, the Disney Channel alum detailed what the moment meant for her.
"I don’t want to sound biased, but I think he’s one of the best actors of this generation," she gushed to Variety in August 2024. "So getting to see him on the screen with my song as the soundtrack made the video better and all the more special.”
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December 2024: Back to the Prospect Convention
After one year together, multiple outlets reported that the Grammy winner and Saltburn star had gone their separate ways.
Six months later, Sabrina alluded to the romance coming to an end.
“Am I doing the single thing right now?” she rhetorically asked Rolling Stone in an interview published that June. “I’m doing the 25-year-old thing right now, whatever that means.”
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