Rachel Bilson and Nick Viall were never ever in a relationship, it turns out.
The former Bachelor and The O.C. actress were romantically connected in 2019 after exchanging amorous messages on social media, but they have now acknowledged it was all to publicise a podcast that never saw the light of day.
Appearing on Nick’s podcast The Viall Files this week, Rachel admitted: ‘No, Nick and I never dated’,” Rachel admitted March 21 on Nick’s podcast The Viall Files, with him adding’, while he added: ‘We did troll the internet.’
Rachel revealed they were just ‘messing around—not together, but I mean with the internet,’ and he explained: ‘[We were] epically single and we wanted the attention.’
She also clarified the situation never ‘got to a point’ where they decided to actually date, with the fake romance being sparked after they ‘became good friends’ when he appeared on his podcast four years ago.
They thought about doing a spin-off podcast together, and Nick explained: ‘It was going to be called Making Love With Nick and Rachel. I had an Instagram saved already for it. Then she got some gig, and then she bailed on me.’
With the podcast falling through, their phoney romance also came to an end, as Rachel pointed out: ‘It was simply to garner attention for the podcast. It was like, “OK, it’s a tease-up to what we’re doing.” Even though it didn’t come to fruition, that was the intention.’
On The Viall Files, the 41-year-old actress also addressed recent statements she made during an intimate conversation with comedienne Whitney Cummings, in which she claimed that she was only able to climax through penetration once she was ‘about 38’.
She has now revealed the matter following much conjecture about several ex-boyfriends.
‘I had Whitney Cummings on my Broad Ideas podcast and she was explaining to me that she got off birth control and at 40 she was able to have an orgasm through sex,’ she told Nick. ‘I just jumped on that and I was like, “When I was older I was able to do that too.”‘
However, she added: ‘It has nothing to do with any partner… It had to do with me knowing my body.’
‘Apparently there were names brought up in both regards and I am not OK with that, because it had nothing to do with that,’ she continued, while Nick added: ‘We’re not shaming any exes.’
She quickly joked: ‘Or giving a trophy to any other exes. Nobody was involved other than myself.’
Source My Celebrity Life.