

Hayley Williams, Taylor York Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
The collaboration could be used as a music video or as a song. Paramore band members promoted their sixth studio album. Hayley Williams Taylor YorkThey revealed that they are currently dating.
During an interview with The Guardian, which was published on Thursday, September 29, the outlet noted that Williams, 33, and York, 32, confirmed rumors of a romance but “decline to comment further” on the subject.
The couple promote their upcoming album. This is Why, alongside drummer Zac FarroYork and York have been professional colleagues since 2007. Williams was briefly married before they moved on to the next stage of their relationship. Chad GilbertFrom 2016 to 2017
The ex-spouses began dating in 2008, and they were married six years later. Williams and Gilbert, 41, separated after one year of marriage. They took to social media to share their separation.
“So much more goes into putting a statement together than anyone will ever see. There’s real life behind these black and white words. Sleepless nights and procrastination and sadness and fear… Unfortunately, it all ends up looking the same. Like some publicity crap,” they wrote via Instagram in July 2020. “The two of us have been together for the better part of 10 years. We’ve grown up together and we’ve been beside each other through a lot of goodness and a lot of challenges.”

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The statement continued: “There is a challenge to trying to understand your own heart in the context of a relationship… and there is goodness in considering another heart, even in spite of your own. Marriage is not for the weak of heart. Love is a risky thing. And it’s up to each of us to stay hopeful even when the outcome isn’t what we’d originally hoped for.”
Williams and Gilbert ended the long post by thanking their loved one.
“We want to publicly state — plainly, and only this time — that we are splitting up. We also feel it important to state that we are going to be okay and in fact, we remain close friends who are good in each other’s eyes. That’s something we are deeply thankful for,” they added. “Even though situations like these can feel defeating. We will continue supporting each other both professionally and personally. Hopefully, you’ll understand that the personal aspects of what we are going through are not for anyone else to carry. Only us.”
The songwriter shared that she needed treatment after her split. “I had to get therapy. I was having bad dreams. I still do,” the “Simmer” singer told VultureIn May 2020. “Now I think the dreams I have are my body processing things so my consciousness doesn’t have to do it in the day, like it’s working out the kinks.”
Williams also recalled going through with the marriage because she had “a lot of shame about mistakes” she made about “prematurely” dating Gilbert amid his split from first wife Sherri DuPree.
In the same year, the singer revealed that she had lost more than 100 pounds following the split. “It wasn’t until I saw the pictures that I was like, there’s no hiding that I’m not OK now,” she told The Guardian in March 2020, referencing Paramore’s 2017 album, After Laughter. “And part of me enjoyed that — if people know I’m not OK, they won’t get too close.”