The 1975’s Matty Healy is specializing in his new relationship after inspiring ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift‘s newest album.
“Matty’s uncomfortable with the renewed consideration on his relationship [with Taylor] — particularly as a result of he’s [with someone] new,” an insider solely reveals within the new concern of Us Weekly.
Healy, 35, started courting mannequin Gabbriette Bechtel in September 2023. Three months earlier that 12 months, in June, Us confirmed that Healy and Swift, 34, known as off their transient romance. The twosome, who had been initially linked in 2014, rekindled their connection shortly after information broke in April 2023 of Swift’s break up from Joe Alwyn.
When Swift introduced her eleventh album, The Tortured Poets Division, on the 2024 Grammys in February, followers had been fast to imagine Alwyn, 33, can be its central topic. Following the file’s launch, nonetheless, many clues in Swift’s lyrics pointed to Healy as her foremost inspiration.
Regardless of her typically scathing songwriting — Swift doesn’t maintain again on “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” and “I Can Repair Him (No Actually I Can)” — a separate insider advised Us final month that Healy felt “reduction” concerning the album.
Matty Healy, Taylor Swift. Getty Photographs (2)
“Matty nonetheless thinks very extremely of Taylor however we had been all nervous about what she may need stated on the album,” the supply added, noting that Healy “couldn’t be happier” about how TTPD turned out.
In response to the insider, Healy’s household was “anxious” that the songs would “rip him aside,” including, “Matty has struggled with life within the public eye, and he’s been doing rather well, however the very last thing that he wants is for each Swiftie on this planet to suppose he’s a villain.”
A 3rd supply advised Us on the time that Healy was “actually appreciative” to get a heads-up from Swift’s workforce concerning the contents of the LP earlier than its debut.
Gabriette Bechtel. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Photographs for Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty Present Vol. 4 introduced by Prime Video
Whereas followers have seemed into Swift and Healy’s lengthy historical past, he’s been laying low. “He’s very completely satisfied in his new relationship, so I’m certain he might be specializing in that,” his aunt Debbie Dedes advised the Every day Mail in April 19.
Dedes added that as a fellow songwriter, Healy doubtless wouldn’t be shocked by Swift’s method. “She writes about all her relationships, doesn’t she?” she advised the outlet. “I don’t suppose it can come as a shock to him in any respect. … He won’t be shocked by the track. Him and her know what went on.”
Healy, for his half, was requested about his TTPD “diss monitor” whereas out and about days later. “I haven’t actually listened to that a lot of it, however I’m certain it’s good,” he stated in a video obtained by Leisure Tonight.
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