Carrie Coon is clarifying remarks about her relationship with husband Tracy Letts after inadvertently setting off a media frenzy.
Showing on Monday’s episode of the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast, Coon acknowledged she and Letts have had frank discussions about being drawn to different folks, regardless of being married for 12 years.
“We’re not jealous people,” the “White Lotus” and “Gilded Age” actor stated. “We don’t have any of those hang-ups … it’s nice to be in a relationship where we can always talk about, like, ‘Well, who are you attracted to on set?’”
“Tracy’s the kind of person who sees, like, everybody on the street,” she continued. “He notices every single woman on the street. And he always tells me who he has a crush on. It’s interesting to know what your partner’s into. It’s titillating.”
Describing Letts as “a person of appetites,” Coon advised each she and her husband have less-than-favorable views of monogamous relationships.
“Monogamy is something we’ve imposed on ourselves. We were supposed to have babies and die when we were like 30,” she stated. “And that’s not the way life is anymore.”
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Some have been fast to interpret Coon’s remarks as an acknowledgment that she and Letts have been in an open, nonmonogamous relationship.
“Finding out Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts have an open marriage has been a really great way to start my week,” one individual wrote on X, previously known as Twitter. “For the record this kind of attitude is how you survive and thrive in a marriage between two theatre people so good for them!!”
“But of course! They’re way too cool to be monogamous,” one other stated.
By Tuesday, nevertheless, Coon cheekily shut down the rumors.
“Settle down, internet! I said ‘open minded’ not ‘open,’” she wrote on X.
Letts ― an actor, screenwriter and playwright finest identified for the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “August: Osage County” ― and Coon met as co-stars in a 2010 Broadway manufacturing of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and married in 2013. They share two kids.
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“I have a healthy, happy marriage. When I was younger, let’s say I didn’t always conduct myself with integrity in my relationships,” she instructed The Guardian in 2021. “Now I’ve found a partner who I can be truly honest with, I never want to go back.”
Hearken to Carrie Coon’s “WTF with Marc Maron” interview right here. Her feedback on her marriage to Tracy Letts start across the 55:00 mark.
