ICYMI, there's a new man *allegedly* in Lili Reinhart's life.
The actor rose to fame when she took on the role of Betty Cooper in the Netflix teen drama Riverdale, alongside Cole Sprouse, KJ Apa and Camila Mendes.
Reinhart dated Sprouse — a Disney Channel star who acted in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody with his brother Dylan Sprouse — for three years before breaking up in 2020.
Watch a snippet of Cole Sprouse on Call Her Daddy. Post continues after video.
When rumours initially started about their relationship ending in 2019, neither Sprouse nor Reinhart took it too well.
At the time, they made slightly aggressive posts on Instagram referring to the rumours.
"BREAKING: A reliable source has confirmed that none of you know s**t," Reinhart wrote.
Sprouse also responded on his Instagram, posting the same photo as his ex-girlfriend, but with the caption: "UNPRECEDENTED: Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart consume the flesh of 'reliable sources' to fuel their bacchanalian sex cult."
(If that doesn't show the type of celebrities we're dealing with, we're not sure what will.)
Riverdale stars Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart. Image: Getty.
Whilst their real break up a year later was much quieter, the pair didn't have much to say about each other in public. Considering they were still required to act alongside each other in Riverdale, it's no wonder they decided to keep the peace.
However, things took a turn when Sprouse sat down for an interview on the Call Me Daddy podcast with Alex Cooper, where he shared all the details of their ending while sucking on a cigarette. Indoors.
"It was really hard," he explained about their relationship, without mentioning Reinhart's name. "The work thing got difficult because it was hard to suspend all the way we felt about each other and it didn’t afford us the luxury of distance to really overcome that."
Sprouse also said the pair "absolutely" stayed together longer than they should have.
Lili Reinhart and Cole Sprouse. Image: Getty.
"I think, if I had loved myself a little more, I probably would have left a little earlier, but I just felt like I had to take care of a lot of people around me, which was not good for me," he admitted. "I probably should have exercised a bit more selfishness in that situation."
At one point in the interview, Sprouse said he and Reinhart had done "quite a bit of damage to each other" but didn't explain what he meant.
He also said that while their relationship ended mutually, he was the one to initiate it.
"I left," he said. "But to be honest, when you’re in a relationship for that long, and someone leaves, it’s not… a surprise."
The interview was not necessarily received well online, especially by famous TikTokker Jack Martin.
Martin made a spoof promotional video for a podcast he was due to be on with Barstool Sports. Referred to as the "third Sprouse brother", he wore a white shirt like Sprouse and had multiple cigarettes in his mouth.
"I feel like you guys don't read," he jokingly said to the co-hosts.
