He won her heart. Margaret QualleyAnd Jack AntonoffTheir romance was kept under the radar until they announced their engagement in May 2022.
After the August 2021 incident, the twosome were linked for the first time. Maid star’s brief relationships with Pete DavidsonAnd Shia LaBeouf. For his part, the Bleachers singer previously dated Lena DunhamFrom 2012 to 2018.
“I mean, we own a dog together. We own a home together, but the marriage thing is a big deal,” the Girls alum told Ellen DeGeneres in 2015, confessing that she and Antonoff had talked about getting married “at some point.”
Us Weekly confirmed the duo’s split in January 2018, months after Dunham reflected on their relationship in a Variety essay. “It’s safe to say that before Jack my life was full of far fewer sights,” she wrote in October 2017. “He showed me the importance of making political statements using your public platform. He taught me the joy of collaboration. He showed me the magic and beauty of New Jersey and transformed my New Yorker jokes into a magical, glimmering fantasyland. He does the same for all artists he produces, his fans, and those who receive his love. I try and share nicely.”
Two years after their breakup, the Lenny Letter creator revealed it wasn’t “easy” moving on from the musician. “We fell in love when I was really young,” she told Cosmopolitan UKJanuary 2020. “I was 25. Looking back, it was a great ride. We cared for one another, but you know what? We were both just starting our careers and that was what we loved. The love you have for someone doesn’t disappear because you don’t have them; it’s just logistically it doesn’t work anymore.”
Dunham called the Grammy winner “a dear friend” despite the end of their romance, adding, “What’s really nice is we don’t try to pretend that we don’t have this history together, but we’re also willing to move forward.”
Antonoff used the split to inspire the third Bleachers album. Saturday Night: Take the Sadness Out “I was writing for a long time. The early process was, I got out of a relationship,” he recalled to Rolling StoneIn June 2021. “I felt an amazing amount of darkness and depression. I was swept in there. But the moment it starts to open up and you see a piece of light is a really amazing place to write from.”
He continued, “There’s a lot of desperation in these songs, and I realized, ‘Oh, that’s the same feeling of being from New Jersey, that desperation of wanting out, of I want to break through into another part of my life.’ So that’s when I started to see the framework. The pandemic brought about a remarkable thing. It was like the final piece of the album, because everything I’m talking about in the songwriting is about sort of dreaming of a next place.”
Two months later, the “Shadow” performer was spotted packing on the PDA with Qualley. The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actress joked about the “terrifying” experience of meeting Antonoff’s parents in March 2022, telling Another magazine, “[I thought], ‘Please like me, please like me, this is so important, please.’”
Qualley and Antonoff became engaged after just one year. Scroll down to relive the pair’s whirlwind romance:
