Natasha Lyonne and Fred Armisen Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
Growing apart. After almost eight years of being together, Natasha Lyonne Fred ArmisenOfficially, they have split.
“I had been [in Los Angeles]Living with Fred during COVID. I honestly think we broke up because I wanted a swimming pool,” the Russian Doll star, 43, told The Hollywood Reporter In a profile published Friday, April 15. “We love each other just about as much as two people can love each other and we’re still talking all the time, but Freddy doesn’t like a swimming pool.”
She continued: “It might seem like a mundane reason for a breakup, but during that pandemic, you’ve got to get your laps — I’m like Burt Lancaster in The Swimmer. So I bought a house in Los Angeles with a pool. So that’s the real scandal. I guess I finally am an actual bicoastal.”
Us Weekly In August 2014, it was confirmed that the Orange is the New Black The alum was dating the Saturday Night Live After attending several pre-Emmy Awards events, the 55-year-old alum was reunited. An eyewitness narrated the story Use that the pair acted “very flirty” and talked “very closely” throughout the night.
The couple were first connected by Maya Rudolph, who was a matchmaker.
“I was going through a rocky road, as we know,” she recalled of her “Grey Gardens phase” during a September 2019 interview with GlamourNoting that Rudolph, 49 and Armisen stopped at her apartment to see her chain-smoking, she wore only a silk robe with sunglasses and a silk robe. “I pulled out a copy of [Legs McNeil’s] Please Kill Me, autographed it, and was like, ‘Welcome, kid. Fred—what a name. Happy Birthday. Enjoy the book.’ He still has it.”
The Portlandia Alum — who has yet to publicly address the split — and Lyonne had been dividing their time between her apartment in New York City and his residence in Los Angeles. She even praised him for his caretaking skills. Glamour at the time. “They’re always going to pick me up from school on time,” she added, referring to Armisen and her pal Chloë Sevigny.
For his part, the native of Mississippi was previously married to Sally TimmsBetween 1998 and 2004. Later, he moved on to another company. The Handmaid’s Tale star Elisabeth MossHe married his wife, Judith, in 2009 before they split in 2011.
“Everything is a process to make your life better — everything,” Armisen told Vulture in June 2016 amid his romance with Lyonne. “I’m trying to be less selfish. I want to give more than I’m used to giving.”
