Madelaine Petsch seems to be addressing KJ Apa’s recent comments about the Riverdale cast and their alleged offscreen hookups.
“May I set the record straight about Riverdale, actually? I would love to do this on air,” Petsch, 31, said during her Wednesday, September 17, appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. “Recently, an article came out saying that we all f***ed each other on the show. I did not touch a single person on that show with a 10-foot pole.”
She added, “May I just repeat that one more time? I did not f*** a single person on Riverdale. I never touched them. That’s what happened. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.”
Host Alex Cooper attempted to get Petsch to clarify her statement.
“It was just, like, this article that came out that was like, ‘We all f***ed each other all the time.’ And I was like, ‘Hey, no, I did not f*** any of you. I don’t claim that s*** at all,’” Petsch added. “I don’t mix business and pleasure like that. I’ve never hooked up with a costar.”
Eagle-eyed fans wondered if Petsch was referencing former Riverdale costar Apa’s interview with Entertainment Weekly published earlier this month.
“Yeah, there’s a lot of drama that comes on shows like that,” he explained. “Not to say in, like, a gossipy kind of way, but it’s just part of the environment, I guess. Part of the deal.”
Apa said that “people hook up with each other” on the show.
“You have sex with them and stuff, and then things start happening,” the actor said. “And then things get a little complicated, and then you’re on set, and now you’re fighting with them.”
Apa concluded, “You sort of just have sex with them, and then you just sort of see what happens. It’s just part of the deal.”
Petsch told Cooper during Wednesday’s podcast that fellow Riverdale costar Cole Sprouse actually offered her advice about never dating someone onset.
“You know what’s really ironic about all this is Cole sat me down during the pilot and was like, ‘If I can give you one piece of advice, Mads.’ — Do you have a cigarette I can borrow? — He was like, ‘Hey, don’t hook up with any of your costars, OK. I was like, ‘OK I won’t.’”
Cooper and Petsch joked about Sprouse, 33, dating Lili Reinhart, who was also on Riverdale.
“Honestly, the best advice I’ve ever been given was from Cole Sprouse,” she continued. “I never have and I never will.”
