Holland Taylor, 80, opens up on eight-year relationship with Sarah Paulson, 48

Actor Holland Taylor has opened up about her eight-year relationship with American Horror Story star Sarah Paulson, having spoken about how they’ve managed to find the right ‘balance’.

Taylor, 80, and Paulson, 48, have been together since early 2015, and regularly share their happiness online with fans.

In a post from earlier this year, marking Taylor’s birthday, Paulson said she felt ‘happiest’ with her partner near, saying: "You’ve changed me. In all the important ways. Sharing my life with you has made everything else make sense.”

She shared a similar sentiment the year before, gushing how Taylor was the ‘love of her life’ and that she felt like the 'luckiest of the lucky'.

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Speaking to Page Six at the 2023 Second Stage Theater Fall Gala - which honoured Paulson - earlier this month, Taylor opened up about the secret to their lasting relationship – admitting it’s all about making sure you’re doing your own thing from time to time.

“I think we each follow our own path so we’re not exactly the same,” she said.

Taylor continued: “We do some things separately so everyone gets to be true to what they believe.

“She’s much more social, and I like a little bit of alone time, so I have that. She spends some time with friends and not with me, so it’s a good balance.”

While the couple clearly couldn’t be happier, their relationship has fallen victim to cruel comments about their 30+ year age gap – something Paulson believes may be partly down to their sexuality.

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Back in 2020, she told the Guardian that she didn’t see the same level of ‘obsession’ around heterosexual couples with a similar age difference.

"I don't remember people going nuts about Michael Douglas and Catherine-Zeta Jones, in terms of their age difference,” Paulson said.

"For me, that seems to be the predominant interest in my relationship with Holland, what would be perceived by some as the strangeness of it, or the unlikelihood of it. I think people are fascinated by it, because it's so not typical.

"Except for if you look around at plenty of well-known or recognisable couples, when they're heterosexual couples, it just runs rampant, and I don't see anybody becoming obsessed by those relationships."