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BLACKPINK’s Rosé had a boyfriend, but she never announced it publicly. During an appearance on Call Her Daddy, the singer had a candid exchange with host Alex Cooper about why she doesn’t feel comfortable talking about her love life and how hard she goes to hide it.
At one point, Cooper asked her if she was seeing anyone.
“Oh my god,” Rose began.
“You almost fell off your chair,” Cooper pointed out.
“Because if I say no, I think, oh, that’s a lie. You know, I’m looking for love.”
“Okay, then maybe you’re talking to someone,” Cooper said.
Rose didn’t confirm. Instead, she explained why she felt uncomfortable talking about dating and reflected on how “sad” it was.
“When you ask something like that, it’s like the first thing you see is all the articles and all the comments. You just watch it roll down,” Rose said. “And they orchestrated my downfall by saying things like, ‘Here’s our comment — so if anything happens, here’s the interview. Like, come back and tie this crazy story about how dependent[she is]on men.’ Like, that’s all I’m thinking about. So I just want to say yes or no. But it’s like, ‘Is this going to define who I am?’ What a sad reality that is! ”
She started getting emotional. “It’s sad. It’s sad for a lot of people in the industry and how…”
She tried to calm herself down, but later added: “I think it’s a very normal thing[to be asked]. Just because I’m from a K-pop group doesn’t mean I’m a different kind of person. I think we’re all born with legs and arms and, you know, we’re all human.”
But because she’s famous, she says, on topics like dating, “I have to think about how people are going to use my comments to try to make something out of me. And it’s not like I’m saying the craziest thing right now. Am I saying something like I killed someone? No.”
“I’m just asking if they’re dating someone, not if they have a boyfriend,” Cooper agreed.
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Cooper also asked Rosé why she feels keeping her relationship private is the right approach for her right now.
“I think a lot of it is necessary to protect our loved ones,” Rose said. “I realized that it hurts more if a friend gets attacked, or if that person gets attacked, the closer you are to that person, the more it really, really hurts.
“And I’m fine because I’m in public and it’s my job and it comes with territory, and I’m like, ‘Okay, whatever.’ But yeah, I think that’s a little unfair. ”
Citing her current reality with fans and the media, she said that one day, “Maybe once I can really fully trust the media to protect me and be there for me, I might feel comfortable[sharing information]. But right now, I don’t know if I feel completely safe. I’m sure a lot of other people understand and experience what that feels like.”
But she dated. She remembered a time when she had a boyfriend in the past and visited him in disguise.
“I was so paranoid. I was like, ‘I’ll never be seen,'” she said. “I ordered it online, basically like Amazon, but it was in Korea. I got a wig. I got a black curly wig, like a short wig. Then I studied how older people and older women dress on the street. I thought, ‘Okay, they wear skirts like that and shoes like that and bags like that.’ And I would like to research it and I will order it. And then I dressed up. ”
It lasted for at least six months, and Rose eventually broke up with that partner. The next time I went on a date, I didn’t wear that disguise anymore.
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She also told Cooper that she would like to date someone from the industry because her life and her youth as a K-pop trainee are very different.
“Everyone grows up having similar experiences to some extent, whether it’s going to school, going to college, or whatever,” she said.
She admitted that she felt “inexperienced” and “like an alien” when she was around them, adding: “They were talking all this stuff, and I was like, I don’t know how to relate to it. All I know is what I’ve been through (training on the job, working with Blackpink).”
Watch the full interview below.
