Sarah Paulson talks 32-year age gap with Holland Taylor, and iconic reason they won’t marry

I know age-gap relationships are incredibly controversial, but for some reason, the vast majority of us utterly adore Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor. 

The two actresses have been together for 12 years, and they have a unique approach to romance as their Hollywood colleagues are getting divorced, robbing the cradle, and cheating with their personal trainers. It’s refreshing. 

“I’m with a much older person, and people find that totally fascinating and odd, and, to me, it’s the least interesting thing about me,” Sarah Paulson said in 2017, going one step further in another interview where she threatened to “cut a b*tch”. 

Holland Taylor had similar, admittedly less brutal thoughts. She said that, because Sarah is younger, she can guide her through many of the moments she also experienced. God, I just love them. 

Anyways, I digress: The reason they haven’t gotten married, despite their 12-year relationship. 

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Sarah Paulson said marriage gives her ‘the heebie-jeebies’

Appearing on Chelsea Handler’s podcast this week to talk about All’s Fair, Sarah Paulson pushed back on the idea of marriage. 

“I’m happy that I haven’t been married,” she explained. “Because I feel that I’ve maintained some sense of myself in a way.”

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She said that, while they love each other, they don’t need a piece of paper to validate that. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great that queer people now have the option to marry, but many feel as though it’s largely a symbolic event. 

Sarah Paulson continued: “For marriage to me somehow, it’s like… the bond, the connectivity I have with Holland, it feels, we talk about it all the time, I feel married to her. But I don’t have, or have never had, the need to, like, have it be something written in stone somehow.

“The stoniness of it makes me want to, like, it gives me the heebie-jeebies. I want to feel this kind of freedom. That’s not about being away from her or being with another person. It’s just about maintaining some sense of my own independence, and I think Holland feels that way too. We just have never, ever, ever felt the need to… I don’t know.”

She’s also not keen on the label of “wife”, and neither is her partner. Again, it’s a sentiment many queer people might relate to. 

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