8 Well-known {Couples} Whose Relationships Had been Tainted By Social Media

Discover out why these well-known {couples} broke up…

1. Rachel Leviss & Matthew Dunn

Rachel Leviss’ quick lived relationship with businessman Matthew Dunn in the end ended due to social media. Within the early days of their relationship, Rachel requested Matthew to not submit photographs collectively on social media as a result of it was “too quickly.” He agreed — however lower than a month into relationship, Matthew modified his Fb profile image to a photograph of them collectively.

“He instructed me one factor and his actions have been completely different,” she shared on her Rachel Goes Rogue podcast. “The media caught wind of that, and it was simply this entire factor…I needed to finish it. It was unhappy as a result of we had a very good connection and good dialog and he was emotionally steady and emotionally clever…It simply appeared like possibly he both had an impulse management concern, as a result of we agreed not to try this — or he wished to submit to indicate me off.”

2. Brandi Glanville & Donald Friese

In 2016, Brandi Glanville started relationship Donald Friese after assembly on a relationship app post-Scandoval. However after simply over a yr of relationship, Brandi ended the connection, explaining that social media had ruined issues for the couple. Whereas she didn’t specify precisely what occurred, she did say she was now passing Donald on to the “IG hoes.”

“Social media is ruining romance! It ruined mine,” Brandi tweeted with a damaged coronary heart emoji, including, “Is official I’m SINGLE! He’s all urs IG hoes! He’s beautiful so be good.”

3. Justin Bieber & Sofia Richie

In the course of the summer season of 2016, Justin Bieber and Sofia Richie sparked relationship rumors after they began posting about one another on social media. Justin’s posts with Sofia induced a frenzy amongst followers, and he ultimately issued an ultimatum, writing that if followers didn’t “cease the hate,” he was going to make his Instagram personal. His ex Selena Gomez even weighed in, writing within the feedback that he shouldn’t be mad and in the event that they couldn’t take the hate, they need to maintain their relationship personal. After some forwards and backwards, Justin deleted his Instagram account.

Justin and Sofia continued to this point for a number of extra weeks, jetting to Mexico and Japan collectively however their relationship didn’t final. By the center of September, the couple had gone their separate methods with some sources saying the social media controversy had taken a toll on their relationship.

4. Demi Lovato & Max Ehrich

In early 2020, Demi Lovato met Max Ehrich — and their whirlwind relationship shortly escalated. When the pandemic hit just a few months later, they started quarantining collectively and by July, they have been engaged. Behind the scenes, issues weren’t going as easily as they appeared.

Following their engagement, previous tweets from Max started resurfacing the place he gushed over Demi’s former pal Selena Gomez. In some messages, he even expressed his need to marry Selena. Whereas Demi initially accused the messages of being pretend, the couple cut up by late September. Demi later defined that she had ended up seeing one other aspect of Max after the social media posts.

“I spotted as time went on that I did not truly know the person who I used to be engaged to. We have been solely collectively 4 or 5 months, and truthfully, it was false promoting,” Demi stated of their documentary Dancing With the Satan. “The toughest a part of the breakup was mourning the person who I believed he was. I imply, I used to be simply as shocked as the remainder of the world at a few of the issues that have been stated and executed.”

5. Dixie D’Amelio & Noah Beck

For a lot of their relationship, TikTok stars Dixie D’Amelio and Noah Beck shared all the small print about their romance on social media. The pair started relationship in 2020 however two years into their relationship, they took a brief break. Once they bought again collectively, they determined to cease sharing something publicly. They defined that social media had put stress on their relationship and induced “loads of drama” for them, “it doesn’t matter what” they did.

Within the midst of rumors that that they had cut up as soon as once more, Dixie instructed Folks, “As we’ve stated like one million occasions, we’ve determined to take our relationship off social media” as a result of it was “higher for our psychological well being.” Only a few months later, the couple known as it quits for good.

6. Bella Thorne & Charlie Puth

Social media induced some main drama for Bella Thorne and Charlie Puth within the early days of their 2016 romance. Shortly after starting to spend time collectively, an article surfaced that includes Bella speaking about spending the vacations along with her ex Tyler Posey. Charlie instantly shared the submit to social media, tweeting that Bella had lied to him about having cut up from Tyler.

“I can’t consider what I’m studying. Nobody ought to have their coronary heart messed with like this, and I’m not going to be in the course of it. I don’t know Tyler personally, however I do know he shouldn’t be handled this fashion … She instructed me she was not with him anymore. That is all information to me,” Charlie wrote.

It seems the entire thing was a misunderstanding because the submit had been written previous to Bella’s cut up from Tyler. Bella clarified on Twitter, writing that she and Tyler had been “damaged up for like over two weeks” and the “article was written ceaselessly in the past.”

“Charlie and I have been hanging out.. he noticed an previous interview and bought butthurt however as a substitute of texting me and asking about it he put it on Twitter,” Bella wrote, including that she undoubtedly wasn’t relationship Charlie anymore. The pair weren’t noticed collectively once more.

7. Rachael Kirkconnell & Matt James

On the finish of Matt James’ season of The Bachelor, he gave his remaining rose to Rachael Kirkconnell. However after the present wrapped, allegations surfaced that Rachel had taken half in a plantation-themed fraternity get together whereas in school. Photos of her in attendance started circulating on social media and it induced a rift of their relationship. Rachel apologized, admitting she “was ignorant” on the time however her “ignorance was racist.” Ultimately, the controversy induced the couple to separate.

“I am so ashamed that I mainly participated in that unknowingly as a result of I’m sitting right here in my very own little privileged, egocentric world simply pondering, ‘Oh, we simply put clothes on to go take a photograph op,’” she later stated, noting she “didn’t assume something about it as a result of it didn’t have an effect on me personally.”

A number of months later, the couple did reconcile their relationship, with Matt sharing he felt it was “unfair” for him to go away Rachael whereas she tried to “be higher.”

8. Chris Olsen & Ian Paget

Chris Olsen and Ian Paget had solely been relationship for seven months after they went viral on TikTok. Viewers beloved seeing the couple work together and so they shortly grew to become social media celebrities. Followers watched their relationship unfold on TikTok however ultimately the stress of being seen as a “good superb couple” on social media grew to become an excessive amount of and so they cut up.

“Being within the public eye the way in which that we’ve been by these final like yr and a half, two years, is wild,” Ian shared in a joint YouTube video. “And very advanced, layered, pressurized, so many issues. For now, we’ve simply determined that it might in all probability be in our greatest curiosity to be transferring by the world unromantically.”