Come on in, the water is extremely disconnected: Natasha Lyonne has confirmed that she and Fred Armisen have split after eight years together over a disagreement over a swimming pool.
Rumors have been circulating for months that the couple, who were last seen together at the 2020 Golden Globes, are on the run. But the Orange Is the New Black alum ended the speculation this week by somehow raising more questions about the importance of aquatic exercise in a long-term partnership.
Speaking to ahead of the much-anticipated return of her Netflix series Russian Doll, Lyonne opened up about whether she’s currently based in Los Angeles.
“I’m not. I had lived there with Fred [Armisen] and during COVID,” she told the outlet in an interview published Friday.
“I honestly think we broke up because I wanted a swimming pool,” she continued. “We love each other about as much as two people can love each other and we still talk all the time, but Freddy doesn’t like a swimming pool. It might seem like a mundane reason to break up, but during this pandemic you need to do your rounds — I’m like Burt Lancaster in ‘The Swimmer.’
Lyonne said she has since bought a new home with a swimming pool but divides her time between the coasts.
“So that’s the real scandal,” she jokingly added. “I guess I’m finally a proper bicoastal.”
Lyonne previously explained that Armisen’s former “Saturday Night Live” co-star introduced the couple during a particularly volatile period in her life, which she’s dubbed her “Grey Gardens” period.
“As we know, I’ve been on a rocky road,” she told Glamor in 2019 about the first time they met with Lyonne Remake that she was “swimming around in a long silk robe, put on sunglasses and was chain smoking.”
While the two appear to be splitting amicably, the comedian can’t say the same for all of his relationships.
After splitting from wife Elisabeth Moss in 2010 after just eight months of marriage, the ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ star slammed Armisen for saying the “biggest impersonation he makes is that of a normal human being.” She later claimed their marriage was “traumatic and terrible and terrible.”
After their split, Arismen agreed that he was indeed a “terrible husband” who gets tangled “very early” in his romances.
But two years into his relationship with Lyonne, he told Vulture he was “trying to be less selfish” and “wanted to give more than I’m used to giving”.
Except, of course, when it comes to swimming pools.