Sabrina Carpenter struggles to go out in LA ‘without getting assaulted’
'I don’t know many spots...'
As Sabrina Carpenter’s horizons grow with her fame, her radius is getting smaller and smaller.
The Tears hitmaker, 26, has opened up about not being able to visit many places in her home turf of Los Angeles comfortably anymore, due to her fame.
‘I don’t know many spots in LA where I feel like I can just go freely without getting assaulted,’ she admitted in a cover story interview with Vogue Italia.
‘I used to go to Topanga Canyon a lot, which was a very dear, dear place for me,’ she said of the park, which has since burned down after the devastating LA wildfires.
Having raised some eyebrows with her suggestive Man’s Best Friend artwork, Sabrina also talked about her complicated relationship with men.
‘Correct me if I’m wrong, I’ve only been on Earth for 26 years, but I feel like we’ve always kind of had to train them,’ she said.
The star did a cover interview for Vogue Italia https://www.vogue.it/article/sabrina-carpenter-intervista-cover-vogue-italia-ottobre-2025 (Picture: Steven Maisel/Vogue Italia) Sabrina caused controversy with her racy Man’s Best Friend album cover earlier this year (Picture: AP)‘I do think that men have been a super entertaining species to watch,’ she continues. ‘In positive and negative ways. I feel really adored and inspired and loved by some of them… and really confused and attacked and ridiculed by others.’
Alongside the interview, Sabrina posed for a shoot with Steven Maisel, which was inspired by ‘German girls in the 60s’ with big hair and dramatic, smoky eyes, giving the pictures a moody, glamorous edge.
In the cover, she poses with a big-haired blow-dry and a prim T-shirt jumper, while black and white pictures see her reclined on the floor in slinky outfits.
Man’s Best Friend’s artwork was released to controversy earlier this year, with some people criticising Sabrina for the racy cover, showing Sabrina kneeling in front of a man and stroking his leg as he yanks her hair upwards.
A second picture included a zoomed-in photo of a dog wearing a tag adorned with ‘Man’s Best Friend’.
Sabrina’s work always comes with a dash of humour https://www.vogue.it/article/sabrina-carpenter-intervista-cover-vogue-italia-ottobre-2025 (Picture: Steven Maisel/Vogue Italia) Many fans think some parts of Man’s Best Friend are japs at her ex, Barry Keoghan (Picture: Steven Maisel/Vogue Italia)Sabrina, who also regularly kills men in her music videos, addressed the controversy recently.
‘It’s so funny thinking about it now,’ she said on Apple Music’s Zane Lowe Show. ‘Because I wanted a man playing with my hair and I actually used maybe five different men to take that photo because none of them could play with my hair.
‘They were all pulling it. They were all nervous to be holding my hair.’
Sabrina continued: ‘So the grip looked like they were yanking it, and the whole purpose of the photo was supposed to be cheeky and airy and playful of like, I got myself here, here I am, this is someone I love but also someone that emotionally can be doing a lot with my heart and doing a lot with my emotions.’
The final chosen photo was ‘so special’ as it was the ‘only shot’ on film that had every aspect perfectly lined up.
‘[It] had that lighting the way that I wanted it with this facial expression where I’m clearly in control even though I’m on all fours,’ Sabrina shared. ‘And to me it was just perfect.’
Barry and Sabrina went out for about a year (Picture: Kevin Mazur/MG24/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)
