12 Couples Who Broke Up After Making Their Met Gala Debut on the Red Carpet

Phoebe Bridgers and Paul Mescal

Phoebe Bridgers and Paul Mescal first related on X in 2020, after the “Kyoto” singer shared her ideas on the Irish actor’s efficiency on the Hulu drama Normal People. Following some playful on-line banter, the 2 took their connection offline and met up in individual.

During the COVID-19 quarantine interval, they grew nearer and made their romance Instagram official in 2021.

Bridgers joined Mescal as his date on the purple carpet on the 2022 Met Gala, although technically, Mescal attended because the visitor of designer Jonathan Simkhai, who additionally created Bridgers’ glowing robe.

However, in December 2022, Bridgers contributed a verse to SZA‘s monitor “Ghost within the Machine,” with lyrics seemingly alluding to a nasty struggle with a major different.

Though neither confirmed the cut up, it turned obvious that Mescal and Bridgers had been not collectively. In 2023, the Gladiator II star refused to handle breakup rumors, telling Vanity Fair, “The temptation nonetheless exists to be like, ‘Shut the f— up. This is my life. This is what is going on on. Or that is what’s not occurring.’ But transferring ahead as a lot as I can, that is going to be my life that’s personal.”

Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth

Fresh off their wedding ceremony ceremony in Tennessee in December 2018, newlyweds Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth arrived in coordinating outfits to the 2019 Met Gala. Cyrus wore a custom-made Yves Saint Laurent inexperienced and black sequin striped costume, whereas Hemsworth matched in all-black formal put on.

The two cut up just a few months later in August, lower than a 12 months after tying the knot.

“Liam and Miley have agreed to separate right now,” a consultant for Cyrus informed PEOPLE on the time. “Ever-evolving, altering as companions and people, they’ve determined that is what’s finest whereas they each give attention to themselves and careers.”

Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson

Kardashian and Davidson had been first linked in 2021 after the pair had been noticed holding palms on a experience at Knott’s Scary Farm throughout Halloween weekend.

While the couple’s first official purple carpet was technically on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in late April 2022, the pair made their Met Gala purple carpet debut just a few days later.

That Gala was additionally the one at which Kardashian sparked controversy for sporting the notorious costume Marilyn Monroe as soon as wore to sing “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy in 1962.

For his half, Davidson let his love shine on the occasion, showering Kardashian with kisses and serving to her navigate the famed Met Gala steps within the super-delicate costume.

However, in August 2022, PEOPLE confirmed Kardashian and Davidson ended their relationship, with a supply citing their “busy schedules” as a purpose for the cut up.

FKA twigs and Robert Pattinson

Robert Pattinson and FKA twigs, who started courting in 2014 and had been engaged in 2015, made their purple carpet debut on the 2015 Met Gala.

After attending the high-profile occasion collectively and courting for over two years, PEOPLE confirmed she and Pattinson broke up in October 2017.

“He is on a press tour, and he or she is engaged on her new album. And I believe it is timing,” a supply informed PEOPLE. “They’ve been everywhere. They haven’t seen one another in in all probability two months.”

Lili Reinhart and Cole Sprouse

The 2018 Met Gala was the official debut of the much-shipped “Bughead,” however the relationship between former Riverdale costars Lili Reinhart and Cole Sprouse would not final.

Reinhart and Sprouse — who met whereas taking part in lovers on-screen on the CW sequence and dated on and off in actual life for practically three years — made their couple debut on the Gala’s purple carpet, confirming what followers suspected for a while.

The pair broke up two years later in 2020, with Sprouse telling GQ in 2022 that their romance was “as actual because it will get.”

Grimes and Elon Musk

Elon Musk and Canadian digital singer-songwriter Grimes had been first linked as a pair once they appeared on the purple carpet on the 2018 Met Gala.

In 2022, Grimes informed Vanity Fair that she and Musk had been again collectively after a cut up in 2021, with Grimes referring to the connection as “very fluid.”

However, the identical day the Vanity Fair story was printed, Grimes posted on X (previously Twitter) that their standing had modified because the interview.

“Me and E have damaged up *once more* because the writing of this text haha, however he is my finest good friend and the love of my life, and my life and artwork are perpetually devoted to The Mission now, I believe Devin wrote that a part of the story rly effectively. Sique – peace out,” she wrote.

Grimes and Musk share three kids: X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræ and Techno Mechanicus.

Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez

The former couple made historical past with their memorable trendy moments on purple carpets, together with on the Met Gala.

The 2017 occasion marked their debut, the place Lopez shocked in a flowing mint-colored costume paying homage to Old Hollywood. The pair attended once more in 2018 earlier than the newly engaged couple made their third and remaining look on the 2019 celebration. Not solely did Lopez flip heads in her silver fringe Versace ensemble and matching beaded headpiece, however her 16-carat engagement ring additionally stole the present.

Two years later, the pair introduced their cut up in 2021, with a supply telling PEOPLE Lopez and Rodriguez had a pleasant dialogue about their future.

“They hung out collectively within the Dominican Republic final week and determined that it is best to go separate methods,” the insider stated. “The cut up may be very amicable.”

Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik

Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid — who share daughter Khai — had been an on-again, off-again couple from 2015 to 2021. The former One Direction member and the supermodel formally cut up in 2021 after Malik was accused of “putting” Gigi’s mom, Yolanda Hadid.

Long earlier than the incident, the 2 walked the purple carpet on the 2016 Met Gala, making their purple carpet debut as a pair. The pair’s outfits complemented one another, reflecting the 12 months’s theme of “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology.”

Sarah Silverman and Michael Sheen

After starting their relationship in February 2014, Sarah Silverman and Michael Sheen made their official couple debut in May on the Met Gala.

They went on up to now for practically 4 extra years earlier than Silverman introduced on X that the 2 “consciously uncoupled over Christmas” in 2017. 

“I imply, not ‘over Christmas’ – like that wasn’t the struggle that ended it,” she wrote, earlier than clarifying there was “no struggle.”

She added, “We simply reside in numerous nations & it received onerous. Felt we should always simply inform y’all so u cease askin, ‘How’s Michael/How’s Sarah?’ ”

In 2018, Silverman appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the place she mentioned her previous relationship with Sheen.

“He moved again to the U.Okay., and his life is de facto there, and my life is de facto not there, however I really like him to items,” she stated. “If he is on the town and we’re each single, we are going to make love.”

Kirsten Dunst and Jake Gyllenhaal

Kirsten Dunst and Jake Gyllenhaal attended their first purple carpet occasion as a pair on the 2003 Met Gala. Jake began courting Dunst in September 2002 after the actor’s sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal, launched them. Maggie costarred with Dunst within the 2003 movie Mona Lisa Smile.

In July 2004, nonetheless, PEOPLE confirmed the actors had referred to as it quits.

“Kirsten and Jake stay the most effective of pals,” Jake’s consultant, Stephen Huvane, informed PEOPLE. “Details concerning when and why their romantic relationship stopped usually are not being offered, however suffice it to say it occurred a while in the past. They are nonetheless very shut.”