{"id":586682,"date":"2026-08-08T05:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586682\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:10:19","slug":"phoebe-bridgers-hits-bitter-note-with-digs-at-her-ex-mescal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586682\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoebe Bridgers hits bitter note with digs at her ex Mescal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Mescal’s ex-girlfriend Phoebe Bridgers has spilled all on their romance and sudden breakup on her upcoming third studio album, Lost Weekend.<\/p>\n

An early review of the record reveals the singer\/songwriter has penned some emotional lyrics about the Kildare actor, and taken a major swipe at his current girlfriend, Gracie Abrams.<\/p>\n

Paul, 30, ended his two-year relationship with three-time Grammy winner Phoebe, 31, in 2022. He went on to date singer Gracie, 26, who has often referred to herself as a Phoebe superfan, in 2024.<\/p>\n

\"PhoebePhoebe Bridgers and Paul Mescal attend “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” the 2022 Costume Institute Benefit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pic: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Phoebe’s anticipated new album, which is also dedicated to her troubled relationship with her late father, is packed full of references to Paul, a review from the Guardian has revealed.<\/p>\n

Lyrics: Mescal and Abrams The title track confirms that she was engaged to the Maynooth born actor during their two-year relationship, with the lyric ‘I’m supposed to be married but I called it off.’<\/p>\n

But it’s a cutting line in The Governor’s Waltz that could be interpreted as a swipe at Gracie: ‘She can pretend to be me. Since she took my place in my bed, on that stage.’<\/p>\n

\"PaulPaul Mescal, wearing Gucci, and Phoebe Bridgers, wearing Gucci, attend the 10th Annual LACMA ART+FILM GALA. Pic: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Fans have often compared Phoebe and Gracie’s shared diary-style lyricism, and back in 2024 Gracie revealed her own details about Paul and his ex on her album, The Secret Of Us.<\/p>\n

While she didn’t use names, Gracie sang about a relationship throughout the record and made references to her partner’s former girlfriend.<\/p>\n

She appeared to refer to Phoebe in her song Risk, singing, ‘Know you had a girl, but it didn’t work out. Know you bought a house, but you had to move out?’ Paul – a self-confessed Bridgers fan prior to their first meeting – began dating Phoebe in 2020 shortly after the hit television drama Normal People had turned him into a household name.<\/p>\n

\"\"Phoebe Bridgers, Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones on the red carpet for the 2022 Met Gala. Pic: REX<\/p>\n

After delighting fans with a two-year romance, the two suddenly split in 2022. Just weeks later Phoebe fuelled romance rumours with comedian Bo Burnham, with whom she is still in a relationship.<\/p>\n

Paul was coy when asked directly about Gracie in a September 2025 interview with Rolling Stone, as he said he was determined to keep his personal life private as much as possible.<\/p>\n

Gracie – who is the daughter of Star Wars director JJ Abrams – and the Irish heart-throb made their first red-carpet appearance at the History Of Sound premiere in May 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Mescal’s ex-girlfriend Phoebe Bridgers has spilled all on their romance and sudden breakup on her upcoming third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-586682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}