Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor have no plans to walk down the aisle any time soon.
Appearing on the Thursday, November 12, episode of the “Dear Chelsea” podcast, Paulson, 51, explained why she doesn’t see marriage in the cards.
“I’m happy that I haven’t been married,” the All’s Fair star admitted to host Chelsea Handler. “Because I feel that I’ve maintained some sense of myself in a way.”
Paulson added that while she and Taylor, 83, have formed a strong partnership, they don’t need to sign a piece of paper to prove their love for each other.
“For marriage to me somehow, it’s like… the bond, the connectivity I have with Holland, it feels, we talk about it all the time, I feel married to her,” Paulson explained. “But I don’t have, or have never had, the need to, like, have it be something written in stone somehow.”
According to Paulson, the idea of signing a contract to make their bond legitimate doesn’t sit right with her for other reasons.
“The stoneness of it makes me want to, like, it gives me the heebie-jeebies. I want to feel this kind of freedom,” she said. “That’s not about being away from her or being with another person. It’s just about maintaining some sense of my own independence, and I think Holland feels that way too. We just have never, ever, ever felt the need to… I don’t know.”
Paulson further divulged she also wasn’t a huge fan of the label “wife.”
“I don’t like to be called ‘wife,’ either. She doesn’t want to be called ‘wife’ either,” Paulson continued. “We’re not married, first of all, but somehow, it’s, like, the thought of that is just not… I don’t like it… belonging to someone.”
Paulson and Taylor, who have a 32-year age difference, have been together for 11 years. The pair first connected through social media in 2015 after originally meeting at a dinner party a decade earlier.
Taylor appears to be on the same page as Paulson in terms of marriage. She previously shut down the possibility of ever getting hitched with Paulson during a 2024 interview with Andy Cohen on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy.
“I don’t think [we’ll get married]. We’ve never talked about it with any interest,” the Two and a Half Men actress explained at the time. “It doesn’t seem to mean to us what it means to a lot of people. … We would [get married] if we wanted to.”
