Walton Goggins finally sets record straight after unfollowing Aimee Lou Wood on Instagram

Aimee Lou Wood and Walton Goggins have ended the feud rumours – once and for all (Picture: HBO)

After weeks of intense speculation, Aimee Lou Wood and Walton Goggins have unequivocally put the feud rumours to bed.

The White Lotus co-stars, who played doomed lovers Chelsea and Rick in season three of the hit HBO series, saw the high-stakes drama of the fictional Thailand resort bleed into real life after fans started wondering if there was a rift between the pair.

After castmate Jason Isaacs alluded to ‘drama’ on the set, people started fuelling the fire by pointing out Walton had unfollowed Aimee on Instagram and praised the very SNL sketch which the Sex Education star had called out as ‘mean’ and ‘unfunny’ for mocking the appearance of her teeth (he later deleted his comments).

As rumours whirled, just this week, The Fallout star shut down an interview with The Times when asked to address the feud multiple times. ‘There is no conversation to be had about that. Sharing politics on social media — it’s in a vacuum,’ he said.

Now, in their first joint interview with Variety since the falling out rumours reached their pinnacle, they have cleared the record once and for all, with the pair even discussing Walton’s ‘unfollowing’ Aimee on Instagram.

‘Why is everyone obsessing over Instagram? That is irrelevant. We don’t give a sh*ite about Instagram,’ Aimee said. ‘Why not have conversations about the story, and Rick and Chelsea and enjoy it?’

In a new interview with Variety, they explained everything (Picture: Dan Doperalski for Variety)

Walton then added: ‘If I may add, just to put this to bed? The following or unfollowing. I’m a grown-ass man.’

Then, he explained that he has always found the end of intense projects of this nature difficult and had let Aimee know he was ‘processing saying goodbye’.

‘I needed to just back away from everyone,’ he explained. ‘I haven’t spoken to anyone. I couldn’t handle it. Judge me or don’t. I don’t give a f*ck what you think. This is my process. Rick means everything to me, and Chelsea means everything to me. And so that’s what I needed to do for me to process all of this.’

By the end of their chat, Walton had followed Aimee on Instagram once more.

Walton called Aimee ‘love’ and refollowed her on Instagram (Picture: HBO)

He concluded by calling the whole situation ‘ridiculous’. ‘It’s just a part of me, just saying goodbye to this character so that now Aimee and I will be friends for f**king ever,’ he said

During the interview, Walton, who has spent many of the past weeks working intensive hours on the Fallout set, also shared: ‘There is no feud. I adore, I love this woman madly, and she is so important to me.’

Then, looking at Aimee, added: ‘This is Goldie Hawn. This is Meg Ryan. She can do anything, and she will. You watch what the next 20 years of her experience will be. I’ll be on an island, I think Greece. But she’s special. There is no feud.

Both were keen to put the feud rumours to bed (Picture:Dan Doperalski for Variety)

‘She is love, and I know that I am that to her. We care about each other very deeply.’

He also explained that he would ‘never’ speak for both of them, hence he didn’t discuss the issue with The Times.

Specifically, Walton claimed that The Times interviewer had tried to compare his and Aimee’s teeth and asked if they had bonded over them on set, which left him ‘disgusted and flabbergasted’.

Aimee echoed the shock, saying: ‘How horrible!’

The Sex Education star said people should be focused on discussing the characters (Picture: HBO)

As for what’s next for Goggins, in a recent interview with Metro, he discussed his ethos with allowing himself to embrace ‘the unknown’.

‘I didn’t know where my life was going before Fallout. I didn’t know before White Lotus. And I suppose, at my age, that’s the best place to be: comfortable in the unknown,’ he said.

As for the Bafta winner, she has plenty of projects in the pipeline, including a new series with Adolescence’s breakout star Owen Cooper called Film Club and a second season of her hit show, Daddy Issues.

The White Lotus is available to stream on Sky and Now TV.

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