Walton Goggins And Aimee Lou Wood Break Silence On Feud Rumours

However, he told Aimee as part of their joint interview: “I wish I would have been able to watch this with you. It was so cathartic and so painful, and I regret that. I really do.”

Walton later added: “There is no feud. I adore, I love this woman madly, and she is so important to me.

“[She] is Goldie Hawn. [She] is Meg Ryan. She can do anything, and she will. You watch what the next 20 years of her experience will be.”

“We care about each other very deeply,” he added.

The Emmy nominee also said that he’d chosen not to dispel the feud reports during a now-infamous interview with The Times because he didn’t want to “speak for both of us” when Aimee wasn’t present.

Similarly, she chose to remain schtum on the “feud” reports until now because she felt anything she said would be misconstrued, instead opting to “sit back and watch these people making something out of absolutely nothing”.

As for his unfollowing Aimee on Instagram, Walton put this down to wanting to put some distance between himself and The White Lotus once the show was over.

“I knew what we had gone through, and I knew how close that we had gotten, and I needed to begin to process saying goodbye to Rick and Chelsea,” he said, apparently beginning to tear up.

“And I knew that that was going to take a while for me, so I let her know, this is what I’ve gotta do. And she was extremely supportive about that.”

It’s noted in Variety’s piece that Walton had more of a personal connection to Thailand than most of the rest of the cast, as he went travelling near where The White Lotus was filmed years earlier after his first wife died by suicide.

Branding the media furore “ridiculous”, he concluded: “I’m emotional because we haven’t been in the same city to ever talk about this. So for me, this is just so wonderful.”

Variety noted that the interview took place on the first weekend of May, shortly before both actors walked the red carpet separately at this year’s Met Gala.

Since then, Walton’s wife Nadia Conners has also spoken out about rumours of an affair between her husband and his White Lotus co-star, which she took in good humour.

Read Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood’s full interview in Variety here.