“We were looking at the videos and we were pissing ourselves at it,” Paul told GQ last month. “Categorically untrue. And we were laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing. And the one thing that upset me was that I was in the kitchen, I remember my mum looking at the videos and she was getting upset. Isn’t that devastating?”
“It’s funny to us—my brother, me, my sister—because we know that this is the way the internet works,” he continued. “It’s hilarious. If it was true, it’d be f–king bad, but as a rumor, it’s funny. If you’re a mother, her impulse is to come out and be like, ‘He wouldn’t do this.'”
Although that was funny, even to Paul, privacy has been less of a privilege since his breakout role as Connell in the Sally Rooney adaptation.