Barry Keoghan appears to have addressed rumours that he cheated on Sabrina Carpenter with TikTok sensation Breckie Hill. The news of pop star Sabrina, 25, and actor Barry, 32, “taking a break” was only made public on December 4, but online critics suggested that Barry had been unfaithful after he was seen with Breckie in a Hollywood hotel.
Barry took to Twitter today to refute the “lies and hatred” spread about him by social media trolls. “I can only sit and take so much. My name has been dragged across the internet in ways I usually don’t respond too. I have to respond now because it’s gettin to a place where there are too many lines being crossed,” he penned.
“I deactivated my account because I can no longer let this stuff distract from my family and my work. The messages I have received no person should ever have to read them. Absolute lies, hatred, disgusting commentary about my appearance, character, how I am as a parent and every other inhumane thing you can imagine.”
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The Saltburn star added: “Dragging my character and everything I worked extremely hard for and stand for. Talking about how I was a heroine baby and how I grew up and dragging my dear mother into it also. Knocking on my grannies door. Sitting outside my baby boys house intimidating them. That’s crossing a line.”
The Irish celebrity has impassionedly voiced his dedication to his son, saying: “Each and every day I work harder to push myself on every level to be the healthiest and strongest person for that boy. I want to provide opportunities for him to learn, fail and grow. I want him to be able to look up to his daddy, to have full trust in me and know I will have his back no matter what.”, reports the Mirror.
Barry added with a plea to the public: “I need you to remember he has to read ALL of this about his father when he is older. Please be respectful to all. Thank u x” He was discussing his son, two year old Brando, whom he co-parents with his former partner Alyson Kierans, a dentist based in London.
Barry recently hit back at suggestions that he was neglecting his parental duties for a life in the limelight, leaving Alyson to shoulder the responsibilities alone. On Louis Theroux’s podcast last month, he reflected on his own upbringing in foster care and the loss of his mother to drug addiction, taking issue with being labelled a “deadbeat dad.”
Barry contested the claims: “If I didn’t have tough skin or the strength to have, I wouldn’t be sitting here. Of course, (my childhood is) going to affect me being a father when I had no blueprint to take from. People just read that (as) laziness and go, ‘Oh, that’s no excuse to be an absent father’. I’m not an absent father,” he clarified to Louis.
Following the announcement of Barry and Sabrina’s split, a source told People: “They are both young and career-focused, so they’ve decided to take a break.”
The insider also mentioned that the separation was amicable and hinted that there might be a chance for reconciliation in the future.