Carrie Coon is clarifying remarks about her relationship with husband Tracy Letts after inadvertently setting off a media frenzy.
Appearing on Monday’s episode of the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast, Coon acknowledged she and Letts have had frank discussions about being attracted to other people, despite being married for 12 years.
“We’re not jealous people,” the “White Lotus” and “Gilded Age” actor said. “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 suggested both 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 said. “And that’s not the way life is anymore.”
Some were quick to interpret Coon’s remarks as an acknowledgment that she and Letts were 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 person wrote on X, formerly called 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,” another said.
By Tuesday, however, 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 best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “August: Osage County” ― and Coon met as co-stars in a 2010 Broadway production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and married in 2013. They share two children.
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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 told The Guardian in 2021. “Now I’ve found a partner who I can be truly honest with, I never want to go back.”
Listen to Carrie Coon’s “WTF with Marc Maron” interview here. Her comments on her marriage to Tracy Letts begin around the 55:00 mark.