The Where the Crawdads Sing star addressed the viral photo of her posing on the 2022 Met Gala red carpet while her Normal People costar—standing next to his then-girlfriend Phoebe Bridgers—appeared to watch longingly from afar. And now, she’s setting the record straight on what really went down that night.
“I was having kind of an out-of-body experience with the Met Gala,” Daisy explained in a video for WhoWhatWear published July 11, “so Paul had said like, ‘Come and meet me and we could do it together.'”
The 26-year-old thought the offer was “really cool” because they were “such good friends,” but when the time came, she recalled that Paul and Phoebe—who dated for over two years before calling it quits in December 2022—were “really late.”
“Finally, Paul came with Phoebs and we were waiting and did the carpet together,” she continued. “And honestly, he’s my pal, so he was probably just being like, ‘There she is!'”
“It was still early days, so I didn’t know how to pose on a red carpet,” the Twisters actress continued. “So, what I think is most tragic about this is the deep leg cross that I kind of committed to in every photo.”