Sophia Michaels
In her 2023 memoir, “Tell Me Everything,” actor Minka Kelly described how she and “Friday Night Lights” counterpart Taylor Kitsch were just plain “incompatible” and their connection was more of an “infatuation” than love. After meeting through the show, the two began dating but were known for breaking up and getting back together continuously. In the book, Kelly recounted stories from their break-up periods when the “awkwardness” and “tension” would bleed onto set, with them avoiding each other and cast members taking Kitsch’s side since she hadn’t built friendships with them as he had.
“When it was good, it was good,” she recalled. “But we were very young and very sensitive people with our own personal unhealed traumas, so when it was bad, it was really bad.”
After Kelly’s tell-all was released, the “Titans” actor clarified in a May 2 interview on “Radio Andy” that their courtship wasn’t necessarily “toxic” in hindsight, but the “pressure cooker” of the show and their youth certainly affected their relationship. “I wish I would’ve said ‘unhealthy’ or something else,” she explained. “But it did feel like the right way to describe the way that went at that time, as a result of how I handled things.” The rest of Kelly’s memoir details her “chaotic” and at times abusive childhood, so she took responsibility in the interview for how it was “her s***” that often contributed to the relationship’s downfall.
