When the occasion’s over. Billie Eilish and Jesse Rutherford have known as it quits after lower than one yr of courting.
“We are able to affirm Billie and Jesse did break up amicably and stay good mates,” the “Ocean Eyes” singer’s rep instructed Us Weekly on Wednesday, Might 17. “All dishonest rumors are false. Each are at present single.”
Eilish, 21, and The Neighbourhood frontman, 31, had been first linked in October 2022 once they had been noticed packing on the PDA exterior of Los Angeles hotspot Lal Mirch, the place they’d simply dined, per images obtained by Web page Six on the time.
Whereas followers had been cautious of the couple’s 10-year age hole, Eilish and Rutherford paid it no thoughts, seemingly poking enjoyable at their age distinction with their Halloween costumes final yr. Weeks after their L.A. makeout session, the “Unhealthy Man” artist and Rutherford stepped out for some spooky festivities dressed as a child and an previous man, respectively.
For his half, Eilish’s brother and collaborator, Finneas, commented on the criticism a number of months later. “I need my sister to be comfortable and secure,” he wrote within the feedback part of a TikTok video. “And she or he is a 21 yr previous grownup completely entitled to make her personal life selections.”
Eilish, in the meantime, gushed about her relationship with the “Sweater Climate” artist in November 2022, joking about how she “managed” to lock “that motherf—ker down.”
“It’s actually cool and I’m actually excited and I’m actually comfortable about it. I managed to get … my life to a degree the place I not solely was recognized by an individual that I assumed was the most well liked f–king f–ker alive, however pulled his ass!” the seven-time Grammy winner quipped to Vainness Honest in November 2022. “Are you kidding me? Can we simply [get a] spherical of applause for me?”
The “When the Social gathering’s Over” singer joked: “Thanks, Jesse Rutherford, everybody. I pulled his ass. All me. I did that s—t.”
One month later, a supply completely defined to Us Weekly what was behind the couple’s sturdy bond.
“They’ve bizarre inside jokes between them that nobody else can perceive. They’re at all times laughing and have their arms round one another,” the insider stated. “Billie and Jesse spend on a regular basis they’re not working, collectively.”
As for her personal ideas on their age hole, Eilish “likes that he’s older,” the supply instructed Us on the time. “She says he’s doting, caring and so they have a ton of enjoyable collectively. Their age hole makes their relationship much more enjoyable and thrilling. They’re a novel couple and have their very own power and appear actually in a robust honeymoon section.”
Previous to her relationship with Rutherford, the “Happier Than Ever” singer dated Matthew Tyler Vorce and Q (actual title: Brandon Adams). The rocker, for his half, dated Devon Lee Carson from 2016 to 2021.