Hunter Schafer is finally revealing what drove her and ex-boyfriend Dominic Fike apart… And spoiler alert: it was all him.
Last year, the Euphoria co-stars called it quits on their relationship after more than a year together. There weren’t too many details that emerged at the time as they both kept things pretty hush-hush. But Dom revealed in an interview with Apple Music last summer that he’s “done being in relationships right now.” As for his ex, she told GQ earlier this year she had to “exorcise a lot of the breakup feelings.”
Damn, so it must have been a pretty rough breakup, right? Or at the very least, one that at least left her in a really dark place. Well, now we know why…
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In Wednesday’s installment of the Call Her Daddy podcast, the Cuckoo star finally opened up about what really went down between her and her fellow HBO star. She told host Alex Cooper:
“Part of why the relationship ended is because I got cheated on for the first time. “
Oh no…
The 25-year-old revealed that the breach in trust left a forever mark on her:
“It’s part of my truth, but that fundamentally changed me as a person.”
So sad! Earlier in the episode, she said she had been “head over heels in love,” with the Babydoll singer, which is just so heartbreaking.
Hunter went on to reveal that as a trans woman, Dominic was the first ever straight, cisgender man she’d opened her heart to, AND her first ever monogamous relationship — so to find out about his infidelity unfortunately made her blame herself:
“As a trans woman, with a man who has never dated that [type of person] before … Because of the way I’ve been socialized as a trans woman, it’s been this crux in my life of why life has been so hard sometimes, I was like, ‘Oh, god is this it? Can I just not?’”
Ugh, poor Hunter! She didn’t deserve any of that! We hope she’s learned since that almost EVERYONE gets cheated on by the first straight, cisgender man they open their heart to. It’s kind of a rite of passage tbh.
Ultimately, she realized “cheating has nothing to do with you and everything to do with that person, and whatever pain they’re in, and whatever they’re dealing with” — but that didn’t make the shock of it all any less “hard” to go through.
Revealing how she found out, the Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes actress revealed she “kind of knew,” and because of that, she went through his phone, which she’s “not proud of.” But hey, clearly it was the right move.
But even with all that said, Hunter revealed her split from the 27-year-old was “one of the cleaner breakups [she’s] had.” She explained:
“We both recognized that ‘This is not working and we can’t do this. We gotta go our own separate ways.’ It was so hard. We loved each other. He was a really special person.”
Part of that reason was because she felt that he “saw me exactly as who I was,” and “didn’t care at all” what people had to say. For that reason, she said, she has “no interest in letting the public into what happened.” She strongly added:
“I want to make this very clear: I have no f**king desire because what happened with that was between me and him and I want to keep it and I want to protect that, but at the same time I’m also here to talk about my truth.”
You can listen to the full episode (below):
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