Musical artist Lorde, whose offstage name is Ella Yelich-O’Connor, was quite young when she entered the public eye. Her songs quickly climbed the charts, and she was soon incredibly famous. To cope with the spotlight, Lorde decided to disconnect from social media.
That means she rarely shares personal updates, and her romantic history is fairly private. “Part of what made me peace out on social media, apart from feeling like I was losing my free will, was the massive amounts of stress I was feeling about our planet, about systemic racism, and about police brutality in this country,” Lorde told Cazzie David for magazine in November 2020. Lorde also told in September 2021, “I’m great at my job, but I’m not sure I’m the man for the job.
I’m a highly sensitive person. I’m not built for pop star life. To have a public-facing existence is something I find really intense and is something I’m not good at.
That natural charisma is not what I have. I have the brain in the jar.” Here’s what we do know about the star and what she has shared about her romantic life.
Lorde started dating photographer James Lowe when she was 16 years old, and he was 24. It’s actually her mom, Sonja Yelich, who has had the most to say about the relationship. She explained in 2014 to that she did not approve of the age gap but couldn’t do much to dissuade her daughter and ultimately liked Lowe as a person.
“I didn’t say, ‘Yeah, sure, go date a 24-year-old.’ But her dad and .