American Horror Story actress Sarah Paulson has opened up about why people are so preoccupied with the age gap between herself and her partner of six years, Holland Taylor.
Speaking to writer Roxane Gay, author of The New York Times best-selling collection of essays Bad Feminist, she said per Harper's Bazaar:
“To feel that I belong to anyone other than a person I would like to belong to, like Holland or my dog or my best friend or my sister … a bunch of strangers claiming me as their own feels a little confusing. Since I’m not an expert at figuring out how to move around it, I end up giving more than I want to sometimes.”
Take a look at this hilarious interview Sarah Paulson did with Ellen Degeneres, in which she insisted that she and pop star Rihanna were friends:
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Gay then referenced the age gap between 45-year-old Paulson and 77-year-old Holland, asking Paulson why she thought people were so caught up on it.
Paulson responded saying she believed it stemmed from society's reluctance to accept mortality, but also reflects “our own ageist thinking and the idea that to be old is to cease to have any desire.”
While people have generally accepted the pair's relationship and reacted to it in a positive way, Paulson made sure to point out, “anybody says anything about any person I love in a way that is disrespectful or cruel and I want to cut a b*tch.”
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Paulson also commented on her love life and previous romantic partners in a 2016 interview with The New York Times. “My choices in romantic partners have not been conventional, and therefore the idea that it's ‘other’ makes it compelling," she said.
"If my life choices had to be predicated based on what was expected of me from a community on either side, that’s going to make me feel really straitjacketed, and I don’t want to feel that."
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She continued, "What I can say absolutely is that I am in love, and that person happens to be Holland Taylor."
Who can argue with that? Here's hoping the pair will enjoy another six years together (and many more to come).