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Bear in mind when? Rachel Bilson opened up about her whirlwind romance with Invoice Hader, making a uncommon remark in regards to the former duo’s crimson carpet debut.
Bilson, 40, mirrored on the connection throughout a current episode of her “Broad Concepts” podcast with visitor Aubrey Plaza, and the pairing got here as a serious shock to the O.C. alum’s To Do Record costar. “Are you severe?” Plaza requested after Bilson recalled courting Hader, 44, “two years in the past.”
The Parks and Recreation alum joked, “I don’t know s–t. I don’t know something,” as Bilson clarified, “We dated. I went with him to the f–king Golden Globes.”
Hader and the Hart of Dixie alum had been first linked in December 2019 once they had been noticed grabbing espresso collectively in his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. (The Barry actor additionally starred alongside Bilson and Plaza in 2013’s The To Do Record.)
One month after sparking courting rumors, the Saturday Evening Dwell alum took his relationship with Bilson public on the 2020 Golden Globes. The twosome posed aspect by aspect on the crimson carpet, with Hader wrapping his arm across the California native’s waist. An onlooker instructed Us Weekly on the awards present that the pair had been “holding fingers” within the constructing’s entryway earlier than Hader stopped “to excessive 5 a male visitor and briefly chat.”
Whereas attending the occasion, Hader’s Barry costar Henry Winkler gushed over the unlikely couple, telling Us what made the romance work. “[It’s] as a result of Invoice is nice and Rachel is so beautiful,” the 76-year-old Glad Days alum stated in January 2020.
Nonetheless, the connection didn’t final lengthy, with Bilson and the Skeleton Twins star calling it quits by July 2020. Earlier this month, the Jumper actress spoke to Mandy Moore about going by way of a “actually exhausting” breakup through the COVID-19 pandemic — however she didn’t point out her former flame by identify.
“I couldn’t go away my home, you understand what I imply? I had nothing else to do however sit in it, and cope with it and really feel it,” Bilson shared on the June 6 episode of her podcast. “It was in all probability the toughest factor I’ve ever accomplished, tougher than childbirth.”
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Going by way of a breakup alone “harm like a motherf–ker,” however Bilson thought the expertise made her stronger. “If you happen to truly face it, you may come out of it and be like, ‘OK, I did that and I’m prepared for the subsequent factor,’” she stated.
The Final Kiss star beforehand dated Adam Brody, whom she labored with on The O.C., earlier than shifting on with Hayden Christensen. Bilson and the Obi-Wan Kenobi actor, 41, acquired engaged earlier than their September 2017 break up and share daughter Briar, 7. Bilson was later linked to Bachelor Nation’s Nick Viall, however she asserted to Us in December 2019 that the duo “have all the time simply been associates.”
Hader, for his half, shares daughters Hannah, 12, Harper, 9, and Hayley, 7, with ex-wife Maggie Carey. Us confirmed earlier this yr that the Emmy winner is courting Anna Kendrick, however Hader is hesitant to speak in regards to the budding romance for the sake of his youngsters.
“They only need me to be their dad,” he instructed The Hollywood Reporter in March. “They only need me to take a seat and watch Encanto over and over and over. In order that’s what I do.”
