Come in, the waters are highly unrelated: Natasha Lyonne has confirmed that she and Fred Armen split after eight years together over a disagreement about a swimming pool.
Rumors have swirled for months that the couple, who were last seen together at the 2020 Golden Globes, were out. But the “Orange is the New Black” alum put an end to speculation this week and somehow by raising more questions about the importance of water-based practice in long-term partnerships.
Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the highly anticipated return of her Netflix series “Russian Dolls,” Leon addressed whether she was currently based in Los Angeles.
“I don’t. I was living there with Fredo [Armisen] And during COVID,” she told the outlet in an interview published on Friday.
“I honestly think we broke up because I wanted a swimming pool,” she continued. “We love each other as much as two people can and we’re still talking all the time, but Freddy doesn’t like the swimming pool. It’s a mundane reason for the breakup.” Might sound like that, but during that pandemic, you’ve got your lap — I’m like Burt Lancaster in ‘The Swimmer.
Leon said he has since bought a new home with a swimming pool, but divides his time between the beaches.
“So this is the real scam,” he joked. “I feel like I’m finally a real bicoastal.”
Lyons previously reported that Armison’s one-time “Saturday Night Live” co-star introduced the pair to each other during a particularly volatile period in their lives, which he described as a “grey garden phase”. .
“I was walking down a rocky road as we know it,” she told Glamor in 2019 about first meeting with the remake of Leone that she was “in a long silk robe, sunglasses, chain-smoking was moving.”
While the two are parting ways on amicable terms, the comedian cannot say the same for all their relationships.
After splitting with wife Elizabeth Moss in 2010 after only eight months of marriage, the “The Handmaid’s Tale” star slammed Armisen, saying that “the biggest impersonation he does is that of a normal person.” She later claimed that their marriage was “painful and terrible and terrible.”
After their split, Arismen agreed that he was indeed a “terrible husband” who “gets too caught up in the beginning” of their romance.
But two years into his relationship with Leon, he told Vulture that he was “trying to be less selfish” and “want to give more than I’m used to giving.”
Except, of course, when it comes to swimming pools.
