Over a yr after her cut up with fellow Euphoria actor Dominic Fike, Hunter Schafer is shining a lightweight on why they broke up — and the lasting impression of that relationship on her life. Throughout an interview on the Name Her Daddy podcast, Schafer instructed host Alex Cooper that she and her co-star boyfriend skilled “a mutually agreed upon” breakup, and shared that each of them had “a lot to work on.”
“It’s one of the cleaner breakups I’ve had. We both recognised that this is not working, and we can’t do this. We gotta go our own separate ways,” Schafer mentioned in the course of the interview.
Regardless of there being no exhausting emotions after the breakup, Hunter Schafer divulged extra background on the potential causes for the cut up, describing the “life changing” expertise of being cheated on for the primary time. “It’s part of my truth, but that fundamentally changed me as a person. And it was this whole process of realising that cheating has nothing to do with you at all,” Schafer defined.
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“And it has everything to do with that person and whatever kind of pain they’re in or whatever they’re dealing with. It’s all of that, but it’s so hard.”
Her relationship with Fike, Schafer shared, was a profound and really distinctive expertise: it was Schafer’s first time in a monogamous relationship, and first relationship with a cisgender man, after completely courting trans girls, trans males and cis girls. “Most, if not all of my deeply painful experiences I’ve had in life have been with men,” she shared. “And so I really came into this complex of, I never want to let a man back close to me in my life. I don’t see a world in which it’s possible.”
With Fike, she was in a position to take pleasure in each the intimacy of the connection in addition to consolation with being within the public eye, significantly as a trans girl. “This is a straight guy who is in the music scene, too. And we are in a public relationship. He’s dating a trans woman, and he’s completely straight. He’s only dated cis women before, and he’s toting me around, happy to be my boyfriend in front of the world. And people are saying horrible, nasty shit because it’s like, ‘Oh, you’re so gay.’ He didn’t care at all.”
Nonetheless, the eventual finish to the connection offered each with the chance for self reflection. “It was a clean parting, and he has a lot to work on,” Schafer continued. “I also have a lot to work on. I think that’s also why I’m in this era of, I gotta figure my sh*t out.” She added, “We had a really good thing. But there were things in our own selves that had nothing to do with each other that kept coming up in the way of the relationship.”
This text initially appeared on Teen Vogue.
