Williams and actor Taylour Paige first sparked relationship rumors once they had been noticed being chummy on the Sundance Movie Pageant in January 2019. That Might, the 2 attended the Frieze artwork present in NYC and confirmed their budding romance and additional solidified their romance once they made their purple carpet debut on the Ozwald Boateng Harlem runway present later that month.
Curiously, Williams and the “Zola” star had already labored collectively lengthy earlier than they started relationship when Paige appeared on “Gray’s Anatomy” in 2016. In a joint February 2021 interview with GQ, the lovebirds spilled many swoon-worthy particulars about their relationship. The 31-year-old actress recounted their first rom-com-worthy meetup on the Emmys celebration, saying, “I had a dream that I used to be sleeping subsequent to him . . . It was similar to, ‘There he’s.’ Virtually like, ‘The place have you ever been?'”
The duo additionally opened up about their polar-opposite personalities and the way that strengthened their bond. “Jesse may be very literal — details, details, details,” the “Hit the Flooring” actor shared. “We got here from very completely different worlds. She’s very female and into religious planes, astrology. I am very sensible, fact-based, and masculine,” Williams added.
“I used to be having a wild, unfamiliar, uncomfortable expertise as a result of it was all simply taking place in a really religious method — a method that is not how I normally organize issues in my life. However I might been going by means of plenty of transitions in life, and I had intentionally positioned myself to be open to saying sure, to be obtainable to no matter, greater than I had previously. I do not usually let issues occur to me. However as a result of I had determined I used to be going to be open, I did not pull the brake like I usually would. I did not attempt to management, or place, or take a breath, and I simply went alongside for the experience, as scary as that was and has been,” Williams mentioned.
After greater than two years collectively, Williams and Paige reportedly broke up someday round mid-2021, as their joint appearances in public and social media dwindled. The pair even stopped following each other on Instagram and deleted their photos collectively in some unspecified time in the future, seemingly confirming their break up.