Glen Powell Says He "Welcomes" Love If It "Comes and Hits Him in the Face"

Glen Powell isn't "chasing" love, but he's not not open to it.

The Top Gun: Maverick actor spoke to Gayle King on CBS Mornings last week, and because he is such a heartthrob, of course the subject of his love life came up. Powell explained that finding a partner isn't his priority right now, mostly because of where his career is at.

"This is a time where life is moving so fast that I don’t even know if I could bring someone into it in a healthy way even if I tried," he explained.

"I'm not chasing love. If love comes and hits me in the face and knocks me over, I welcome it with open arms, because that's something I really want," Powell continued, adding that family is really important to him.

"Even just being with my niece and nephew today, it's like, I really want kids, I really want that phase of life," he said. "It's not far away, and at the same time I realize it's gonna take a very specific type of person to navigate this. It's a lot."

The Hit Man star further explained that it would be complicated for a significant other to fit into his fast-moving actor's life right now.

"It's a lot," he said. "I’ve realized there’s new aspects and new complexities to this life and this job that I didn’t even understand. So to bring someone into that, and to make them feel comfortable, make them feel seen, to make them feel loved when a lot of the elements around that can really eat at someone's self-confidence or worth or any of that stuff. I'm not willing to have someone sign up for that if they're not ready for it."

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Powell's last relationship (at least that we know of) was with the model Gigi Paris. They dated between 2020 and 2023, and if one source is to be believed, Powell's fast-moving career drove a wedge between them towards the end.

"Gigi and Glen had broken up several times," a source told People in early 2023. "They had been on the rocks since Top Gun came out. Gigi was never happy with the long-distance filming and when she came to Australia [where Powell was filming Anyone But You with Sydney Sweeney] they both decided to break up for good."

There were rumors of an affair between Powell and Sweeney while they were filming the rom-com—rumors which the two of them reclaimed for laughs (and, well, a little publicity). But just so you know, the rumors were totally unfounded, and Sweeney is happily engaged to her partner Jonathan Davino.