Sydney Sweeney is blaming social media for turning her working relationship with Zendaya into a public spectacle.
The Euphoria actress addressed the rumored beef in a new Vanity Fair interview, following months of speculation about her friendship with Zendaya on and off the set of the HBO drama.
“It’s honestly crazy to watch how much social media and the press spin things,” she said.
“I was in first position to HBO,” Sweeney continued. “So the moment they say, ‘Hey, this is the first day of filming,’ I’m legally not allowed to do anything else. So my schedule doesn’t affect the show. And so that was funny to watch everybody spin narratives on it. All of us were in first position, so it wasn’t like any of our schedules were holding it up.”
Sweeney and Zendaya both became the faces of Euphoria after the series premiered in 2019. Some theories suggest that Sweeney’s alleged political leanings were the reason for the rift between them, although neither star has confirmed this.
“I think what’s really hard is I’m spoken for through journalists. So, whatever I say now will be rewritten and posted,” said Sweeney. “The thing is people like headlines and not everybody reads an article, not everyone listens to a podcast. They want the easy clickbait and whatever is the most digestible, most interesting. And that’s all they see and that’s what they run with. And then all of a sudden, crazy things just spin from it.”
