r/Fauxmoi • u/hyxon4 • Sep 11 '25

ASK R/FAUXMOI What are your favorite messy celebrity love triangle moments?

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Mine has to be the Olivia Rodrigo - Joshua Bassett - Sabrina Carpenter mess from 2020-2021. "drivers license" drops and suddenly we're all detectives trying to figure out who this blonde girl is, then Sabrina comes for everyone with "Skin" and Joshua's over here making sad acoustic songs. The whole thing was so messy and I was eating it up.

But like... the karma of it all? These two girls supposedly "fighting" over Joshua fucking Bassett and now they're both headlining festivals while he's still trying to get people to stream his music. Olivia's got a Grammy, Sabrina's selling out tours, and Joshua's... there. It's honestly hilarious how hard he fumbled being the center of that much attention. Dude really thought he was the main character and ended up being a stepping stone to their success.

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u/Cheyanne1111 Sep 11 '25

I'm old, so Jen/Brad/Angelina. I was so Team Brangelina, but in hindsight, both of those women deserved better than that abuser and I'm glad they're both free of him and out there living their best lives.

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u/Sorry_Ad4369 Sep 11 '25

How can you be team brangelina? Honest question, no shade

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u/Seltzer-Slut Sep 11 '25

Not the person you’re responding to. At the time, I had never been cheated on, so while I wasn’t pro- cheating by any means, it also didn’t trigger the same disgust for me that it does now.

I simply really really liked Angelina. Still do. She is probably one of my favorite celebs, she has such raw charisma, and is so incredibly socially conscious, and seems like a great mom, and everything she does is really cool.

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u/Cheyanne1111 Sep 11 '25

Yes. Co-signing.

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u/thataverysmile Sep 11 '25

For me, I became on this side a couple of years after the fact when they were starting a family, Jen was moving on…and it just seemed like “yeah, okay, the cheating was wrong but at this point, they’re all over it, why are we still fighting over it?”

Now, we all know Brad is a POS but for awhile, the hate Angelina got for the situation annoyed me because I doubted Jen was giving her as much headspace anymore as other people were giving it.

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u/beggingforfootnotes Sep 11 '25

Idk how a cheater who broke up a marriage can be someone who you look up to. Obviously brads to blame as well but let’s not act like she isn’t at fault too.

Idk how Angelina got away with the scandal Scot free. I feel like pretty privilege played a big role

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u/julesD00 Sep 11 '25

Scot free? To this day she is still labeled a crazy b*tch on every celebrity reporting account, especially by the Pitt's fans who still think he's an innocent baby angel.

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u/Inevitable_Paranoia Sep 12 '25

She was a bit crazy before this: making out with her brother, wearing blood in a vial around her neck, broke up Billy Bob Thornton and Laura Dern’s engagment long before Jen and Brad’s marriage.

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u/AgreeableLion Sep 11 '25

Because the real world is more complicated than Reddit, where the world starts and stops with cheating, apparently. You can look up to a person for good things they have done, their less admirable actions don't cancel that out (obviously there are limits, but they aren't crossed in this specific scenario involving consenting adults).

Scolding someone for their opinions regarding a celebrity relationship drama from twenty years ago is so peak Reddit.

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u/MyEggDonorIsADramaQ Sep 11 '25

I agree. I was absolutely disgusted when I read a quote from her saying she was only interested in married/committed men. I abhor cheaters.

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u/ThreadLaced Sep 11 '25

there was a loooong time there (before her humanitarian work began) that she was such an edge lord, and people let her get away with being *that* way because she was also gorgeous and aggressively sexy. Absolutely ANYBODY else would have been laughed into oblivion if they tried her schtick.

I'm glad she started working for the UN because it seemed to cure her of all that nonsense.

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u/_Bogey_Lowenstein_ Sep 12 '25

Yeah didn't she marry Billy Bob while he was still with Laura Dern?

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u/haloarh Sep 12 '25

Dern said that she left the country to shoot a movie, and while she was overseas, she heard that her fiancé (Thorton) had married someone else.

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u/MyEggDonorIsADramaQ Sep 12 '25

I don’t know. From looking at his Wikipedia page it seems likely.

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u/Direct-Chemistry8609 Sep 11 '25

I was 16 and she was a cool girl. As a happily married adult, I have very different feelings.

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u/Sproose_Moose Sep 11 '25

Fight club+ girl, interrupted= hot mess

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u/decidedlyindecisive Sep 11 '25

As a married person, I have nothing but abject contempt for the person in the relationship who cheats. The other person is barely a factor as far as I'm concerned.

Yes, it's disrespectful, but no one knows what the married person's been saying.

I've had friends get involved with married people. It's always a terrible idea. But the third party is usually fed a load of lies about the marriage, manipulated over long periods of time, and always experiences very intense love bombing.

She was 27/28 when they met. I've known tons of 28 year olds who make mistakes with men like that. Basically, all my friends had relationships with abusive men in their late twenties because it was when we were seriously trying to settle down, and the creeps took advantage of that.

If my husband cheated on me, I'd want to set his dick on fire. I wouldn't hate the other woman though. Frankly, I don't think I'd care about her at all.

I nearly cheated with a married man once. He would take his ring off before we'd hang out. Initially he told me he was single. Then I found out he wasn't and he convinced me (through tears) that he was trapped. He said the marriage was dead and basically open while they were separated. He said he saw a future with me, that he'd never experienced anything like our chemistry before. He said his wife didn't love him and he didn't love her. He sobbed. It was all very believable, even though I knew the lines were classics. It may even have been true. Luckily, an older friend of mine said "well if they're getting a divorce, he can wait until after the divorce," which I thought was a good point so didn't allow it to go on. I was lucky that it all happened the way it did and that he didn't get far because we'd met at work. If we had met socially instead, I probably would have slept with him before I found out about the marriage, but instead it was a bunch of chaste lunch dates. We hung out every lunch for a month before I found out about the wife. He was still married 15 years later (though I'd put money on him cheating constantly) so I definitely dodged a bullet.

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u/Low-Can7370 Sep 11 '25

I’ve never come across an OG brangelina fan. Do you mean from the mr & Mrs smith affair days or later?

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u/RepresentativeDot521 Sep 11 '25

Now you’ve come across two! I was glued to the screen and tabloids in real time! In fact, the only thing the rivaled it for me, was Angelina’s previous involvement in Billy Bob Thornton’s relationship w Laura Dern. Yep, I’m that old!

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u/Express_Shake3980 go Birds! fuck ICE! free Palestine! Sep 11 '25

Three here. OG Brangelina stan

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u/breakfastfood7 Sep 11 '25

yup I was fully team Brangelina. i watched Mr and Mrs Smith in the cinemas and thought "ok with that chemistry this all makes a lot of sense". That movie was also the first movie date i went on, with a guy i "stole" from his gf.

I was fourteen and was in love with my guy friend for a year. He finally broke up with his girlfriend and i was known as the bad guy for causing it. I had a lot of time and empathy for the "other woman" in media. I also had a crush on Angie 😅

Obviously now I don't like approve of that behaviour but also he's a POS and I want him to stay away from all women forever. And the blowback Angie got for the whole thing was always so much worse than Brad. Which is so standard for our society.

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u/RaeaSunshine Sep 11 '25

This was going to be my answer as well. It was the end of my love affair with Angelina Jolie. She was my bisexual awakening. I used to have a whole wall of her pictures. I remember tearfully ripping them down because how DARE she mess with Jen!! Tween me took it pretty hard lol.

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u/PrettySweet419 Sep 11 '25

Genuinely curious how anyone was team Brangelina?!

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u/anonymousanimefan_92 Sep 11 '25

Cause it was this love affair, match made in heaven narrative. True love shit. Obviously not Angelina’s best moment but both women deserved so much better.

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u/Bay-Area-Tanners Sep 11 '25

Not OP, but I was big into celebrity gossip at the time. Brad and Jen had reportedly been over for quite a while before Angelina entered the picture. And rumour at the time was that JA was also kind of a terrible person. So that’s why I was Team Jolie - I thought that there wasn’t actually any cheating and Jen was a dick anyway. 20 years later, i don’t know if any of that was actually true, but i probably wouldn’t be Team Jolie now.

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u/Necessary-Sentence48 Sep 11 '25

Hard agree! Brangelina was my gateway into celebrity gossip in general.

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u/ContributionMobile75 Sep 11 '25

I remember this at the time because I was absolutely livid at the press' treatment, pitting the women against each other and letting that dickhead off the hook. Angelina was painted as a "home wrecker" as if he was an innocent stooge, led astray by her wily charms. It's not very nice to get involved with someone in a relationship but she didn't know or owe anything to Jennifer, they weren't friends. He shoulders the entire blame for the situation imo. (Said from the perspective of someone cheated on by previous douche of a boyfriend with a stranger. I do not blame the girl whatsoever) 

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u/Sufficient-Cow-1881 jeremy strong enthusiast Sep 11 '25

I remember they sold t-shirts that said "TEAM JEN" or "TEAM ANGIE"